I Am Ichihashi: Journal of a Murderer (I am Ichihashi: Taiho sareru made)

Changing my name was easy.

Changing my face was easy, too.

And so was getting away.

But...

if I got caught...

May I have your name?

I've been on the run from myself.

"I AM ICHIHASHI: Journal of A Murderer"

Police have arrested Tatsuya lchihashi

at a ferry dock in Osaka.

He is charged with murder

and abandoning a corpse in the death of a British woman

in lchikawa City.

He is said to have told police...

"I have no defence to offer."

"I have nothing to say at all."

He has said nothing of the 2 years, 7 months,

or 961 days he spent on the run.

His face altered through plastic surgery.

Could we have a word, please?

Downstairs!

Halt!

Tokyo Bay Radio Headline News.

Police in lchikawa

have found the body of a young woman

in a bathtub on the balcony of an apartment there.

She is thought to have been acquainted

with the man who lives there.

Police are trying to ascertain how she died.

The man's current whereabouts are unknown.

Police are assuming he has knowledge of the case

as they try to identify the woman.

Chiba Prefectural Police

have identified an English woman found dead March 26th

as a 22 year-old instructor at an English-conversation school.

The body was found nude buried in a bathtub

filled with potting soil.

She is believed to have been strangled.

Her right eye was swollen

and there were bruises on her arms and legs.

The plastic bathtub, centimeters wide and 69 deep...

Here's a song from Australia,

where Christmas comes in summer!

"I am lost in Shikoku"

Aomori, Shikoku, Okinawa, Osaka...

I never thought I'd be able

to interview you on the run like this.

Could I ask you your name again?

Why are you still running?

All right, why have you kept on running this long?

You've changed your face, and your name.

Are you that afraid of arrest?

You don't want to be put on show?

You don't want to take responsibility

for what you've done? Is that it?

No.

Radio Kochi Headline News.

Here is the news to this hour.

The family of the language teacher found murdered in lchikawa

has come to Japan to take possession of her body

from police in Chiba Prefecture.

It will be taken to Narita airport

and returned to her home near Coventry, England.

It was on the radio I first heard

the name of her home town.

What's that got to do with going from Aomori to Shikoku?

I'd heard walking the pilgrimage

of the 88 temples of Shikoku

in reverse order will bring the dead back to life.

You really thought that would bring her back?

I really thought so then.

Hook her life away from her.

"Wanted"

"Pilgrimage Route"

That's what you say,

but do you understand what you did?

Why didn't you let go

when she was struggling to breathe?

I don't know.

After you'd raped her,

she said she wouldn't report you,

and begged you to let her go.

I wanted to let her go.

Why didn't you?

I'd hither.

She had a black eye.

I couldn't let her go...

looking like that.

So you killed her, buried her, and ran.

How selfish can you get!

You had other choices.

Why that one?

It wasn't my fault.

Then whose fault was it?

Tell me.

If it wasn't yours, whose was it?

I don't know.

Was it lnoue?

Ueshima?

Or was it Ueda?

"Matsuyama-Naha Ferry"

Police have released a photograph

of murder suspect Tatsuya lchihashi

taken from a security camera in his building elevator

a few days before the crime.

Police are thought to have taken this step

as the trail grows cold.

As of April 7th, investigators had been contacted 433 times

without receiving any firm leads.

I fell down the stairs.

He didn't used to be like that.

He was nice then.

The 13:45 ferry to Naha, Okinawa,

is now ready to board.

Passengers with tickets, please proceed to Gate 2.

I really wonder...

where things went wrong.

"Shikoku"

"The Outer Islands of Okinawa"

"I am Ueshima in Okinawa"

You are listening to Ryukyu Wave.

Here is the news.

Today marks one month since a warrant was issued

for the arrest of Tatsuya lchihashi

for the murder of an English teacher outside of Tokyo.

Police have investigated 379 reported sightings of lchihashi

but he remains at large.

The investigation team will be

increased from 100 to 150 officers.

"Cosmetic Surgery: Costs"

The prosthetic method.

Artificial cartilage does not harm the body.

"Prosthetic nose: 600,000 yen"

I can't afford that!

You're working hard.

1.2 kilos, 120 yen.

And two at 700 grams...

That's 260 yen.

Thanks.

How do you assess this case, Mr. Nishio?

There are two things.

He's 26, out of university for two years,

still living off his parents.

A 'NEET', as it were.

Many criminals emerge from these people.

Those two years affect this case a great deal.

A distortion sets in.

He's like someone rowing a boat through fog.

Two years...

It's quite something.

What do you want to get out of me?

Nothing.

I want you to tell me what happened.

And as you flee your own cowardice as well.

I want a proper end to this movie.

Mama, there's a strange man there.

Hello?

I'm looking for work.

I don't have any experience.

Yes...

My name is...

It must have been hard, Ueshima.

But there's lots in Okinawa who can't find work.

You're from Kanagawa?

I worked in Shinagawa.

Right in Tokyo, the next 'gawa' over.

Got papers?

Your family register.

You'll need a copy of that to work here.

Hello. Are you at the Karma Restaurant?

No, stupid! The welcome party.

Yeah, that's right. Okay.

Right, right...

Okay, thanks. Take care of it.

Okay, all right...

I'll introduce him.

28, high-school graduate, loner...

Prefectural school? Yes.

In Kanagawa?

They're everywhere.

Ten years out of school, then.

What's your name?

Yuuki Ueshima.

Right! Ueshima, 28.

Work hard.

Drink? Sorry...

In Okinawa, you have to drink.

Sorry. Drink!

Knock it back! Stop saying 'sorry'.

I wasn't just running.

I was trying to live.

You were trying to live

when you'd taken someone's life?

I've fixed it up so you can stay upstairs.

Don't drink too much.

I'm going.

Good luck, Ueshima.

Good night.

Nice to meet you! Cheers.

Higa! Ueshima needs food!