The cochlea.
It's the organ inside the ear that detects sound.
What it all boils down to is it's likely
the most noticeable spiral in the human body.
Mrs. Saito, you seem to be improving.
- Yes, Doctor. I feel much better now.
- Are you still frightened by the thought of spirals?
- Yes, terrified.
- I'm sorry to hear that.
Well, let's try this, then.
I'll refer you to Midoriyama City's psychiatric hospital.
[Yukie] Isn't that a hospital for...
[gasps] Shuichi.
Is it perhaps the stigma
of being in a "psychiatric" hospital?
Rest assured, you have nothing to worry about.
- I was reminded by the anatomical chart
in the hospital director's office.
- [gasps]
- My mother shaved her head and cut off her fingertips.
Now that she's convinced she's gotten rid
of every trace of a spiral on her body,
imagine if she knew there were spirals in her ears?
- [gasps]
Ah, damn.
Another mosquito swarm!
Male mosquitoes form a swarm
as part of their mating behavior.
It's spiral-shaped.
- Now that you mention it, I've seen a lot of those.
Is that why there have been so many mosquitoes lately?
- It's the curse,
the curse of the spiral.
[mosquitoes buzz]
[siren approaching]
[man] Another ambulance.
- More than 10 pregnant women were admitted just this morning,
claiming they felt sick
- [wheelchair rattles] - Ms. Goshima?
The maternity ward is too full,
so we need you to share your room.
- Sure, of course.
[gasps]
Keiko?
- Oh, do you know her?
- Yes. She's my cousin!
- Thank you, Kirie.
- Don't mention it.
Hmm?
Keiko, what's this?
It's pretty heavy.
- Oh, you can just put that in the dresser.
- Sure.
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
- [moans]
♪ ♪
[bubbles pop]
- Oh, my! - [crowd murmuring]
- This patient, he's dead!
- There are two more dead over here!
- What? Two?
- What happened to them?!
[crowd murmuring]
- They seem to be
completely covered in stab wounds.
- Yes.
- Whatever the cause, their bodies appear
to be completely drained of blood.
- We-- We need to call the police!
- Were they murdered? - What happened?
- But I-I didn't hear anything last night. Did you?
- The only thing I can remember hearing was mosquitoes buzzing.
- Someone has to do something about this.
- I can't believe there were murders here.
And three of them!
- Right?
Oh, guess what happened, Kirie.
The baby's started to move around a bit.
- Wow, really?
- Kirie, how do you feel?
- Shuichi!
- [mosquito buzzing] - [sighs]
- Another mosquito!
You're not getting a drop out of me!
- Shuichi!
- [coughing]
- Hey, Kirie, did you know?
Only female mosquitoes that are carrying eggs suck blood.
They gorge themselves on the blood of animals
to nurture the eggs in their bellies.
- [coughing]
- What are you doing?
You need to leave! Now!
- I'm so sorry, Keiko!
Lately, he's been acting a little bit strange.
- It's all right, Kirie.
[mosquito buzzing]
- Hey, Keiko...
- Thanks, Kirie.
But it's totally fine.
I don't mind mosquitoes.
- Huh?
- I actually like them.
I like them a lot.
[soft breathing]
[mosquito buzzing]
- Eh?
[mosquito buzzing]
[sighs]
- [mosquitos buzzing] - Hmm?
- [gasps]
[mosquitos buzzing]
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
Huh?
What are they doing?
[grinding]
[man gasping weakly]
[slurping]
- [crutch clatters] - [gasps]
- Eh?
[panting]
You...
shouldn't be here!
- [gasps]
- [panting]
- [yelps] - [chuckles]
[laughing]
- [screams]
- Hey, what's all the racket?!
- [chuckling]
- [yelps]
- [sighs]
- [groaning] - [gasps]
Get away! [gasps]
- [laughing] - [gasps]
- Your blood!
Give us your blood!
- [sighs]
- [laughing]
[nurse] What's all this commotion?
What's going on?
- [growling]
- [gasps] - Give us blood!
- [screams] - [growling]
- [gasping]
- [panting]
♪ ♪
- I think that's enough for tonight.
- That was delicious.
- Time to go back to our rooms.
- Right, let's get some sleep.
- Not so fast!
- [gasps]
- You think you can just steal a peek at our little secret
and simply walk away?
[slurps]
- [whimpering] - [laughing]
- Stop it!
Help me, Keiko, please!
- [laughing]
- [gasping]
- Blood.
Give me all of your blood.
- Keiko? - [grunts]
- [gasping]
- [laughing]
[gasps] Ohh.
- Die!
[all scream]
- [panting]
- [rustling] - [uneasy breathing]
Huh?
[gasps]
[screams]
[gasping]
[screams]
- [moaning]
My love...
become one with me in the spiral.
- [laughs] - No! Never!
- Oh, how I would love to crawl
into that spiral in your ear, darling.
I want to curl up in it and fall asleep. [sighs]
- [screams]
[mosquitos buzzing]
[women chuckling and sighing]
- But I saw it with my own eyes!
- That seems a bit far-fetched.
- Are you sure you weren't just having a nightmare?
- No! I'm serious!
Those pregnant women were drinking blood!
[both sigh]
[no audible dialogue]
[tense music]
- Your father said something strange,
something about there being spirals in my ears.
- But Dad is dead.
It was only a dream, Mom.
- I have to make sure.
I have to look at that chart myself!
- Mom, please!
- Doctor!
Oh, my.
- Uh...
- Gone! That chart is gone!
- Oh, that was too out of date, so I got rid of it.
- You did what?!
All right, then. You'll just have to tell me yourself.
Don't you lie to me, Doctor.
Is there a spiral hidden in my ear?
- A spiral? Of course not.
How could there be?
- Is that true?
- More importantly, Mrs. Saito,
those cuts on your feet must hurt.
Give her something for the pain.
- Right away, Doctor.
Why don't we head back to your room, Mrs. Saito?
- Is it true? Is it really true?
[ominous music]
[vortex gurgling]
Oh, no.
Please, no! [gasping]
[Toshio] They're in your ears!
Inside your ears!
- Inside! - No!
[Toshio groaning]
- [sobs]
[Toshio] They're inside!
[groans]
Spirals inside your ears!
- He's in my ears!
He crawled into the spirals in my ears!
I have-- I have to hurry!
I have to get him out!
[whimpering]
- For a moment, I thought we had dodged a bullet
when I took that chart down, but I believe
we need to have a specialist look at her right away.
- Yeah. - [scream]
- [gasps] - Huh?
[tense music]
- Why is everything spinning?
My body keeps twisting round and round.
[gasps] No!
I don't want to become a spiral!
- [shudders]
♪ ♪
[fire crackling]
- Those look like...
[babies cooing, murmuring]
- [sighs]
[grunts]
Thanks. I think I'm full now.
- But you barely touched it.
- I'm not really a fan of these mushrooms.
They kind of smell like blood to me.
- [gasps]
- Those mushrooms are delicious, aren't they?
- Our obstetrician, Dr. Kawamoto,
said that they're good for us,
so we can eat as much as we desire!
- You don't have to convince me! I'd eat them anyway.
- Yes. - Love 'em!
[ominous music]
[babies murmuring]
- I wonder what's going on.
- Shh.
♪ ♪
- I can't wait to go back,
all the way back to the warm place.
- Can we go back, though?
- Sure we can! That man took us out.
He can put us back.
Bet he's putting Makio back inside right now!
- I hope I get to go back next!
- Me, too. I can't wait! - [giggles]
- You're so naughty!
- [gasps] - [scream]
- That was Keiko's voice!
- In here!
♪ ♪
[door opens]
[door closes]
- Dr. Kawamoto!
I heard Keiko scream just now!
- A baby's cuteness is a weapon
that allows it to safely mature into independence.
They're determined little ones.
I keep cutting their umbilical cords,
and yet they continue regenerating the placenta.
They regrow the placenta
at the very end of their umbilical cords.
That's how determined they are to return to their beloved womb,
their preferred existence.
- Then, those mushroomlike things
with the spiral patterns all over them...
- Yes. They're placentas.
They started growing spontaneously
as we were delivering them in this room.
[moans]
[chuckles]
- [gasps]
- [raspy breathing]
[infant laughs]
[cooing]
- Keiko!
- Doctor, please...
I need blood!
- [groans] - [gasps]
What are you doing? Let go!
- Right now! I need blood now!
- [gasps]
- [groaning]
[Kirie screams]
- [gagging]
- Delicious.
So delicious.
♪ ♪
- So many mushrooms! - Wow, look at them all!
[Keiko] More.
More.
I need more!
- Thank you for everything.
[Nurse] Take care of yourself, okay?
- Come on. Let's go.
- Ow! You're hurting me!
[birds chirping]
- We're having Kirie's welcome-home party tonight.
We hope to see you there, Shuichi.
- Party?! Yeah!
- Your house is located right next to Dragonfly Pond,
which has become completely contaminated with spirals.
- Party! Party! - [gasps]
- Let's go!
[father] Welcome home, Kirie.
- Yeah, welcome home, Sis!
- Thank you.
- Shuichi, don't be shy.
Go ahead. Dig in!
- Okay.
Thank you very much.
[gobbling]
- Wow, you must have been starving.
- Shuichi, you should come by more often.
- [slurping]
[gags]
[gasps]
- What's the matter, Shuichi?
- Ah! You can see it, too, can't you, Shuichi?
I'm quite proud of that piece.
Your father was a man who truly understood art.
He came and spoke to me before he passed away
and said pottery's the art of the spiral.
His words opened my eyes to what true art is!
- As the typhoon approaches landfall in Japan,
what are the expected impacts...
- Poor Shuichi didn't eat very much, did he?
- Yeah.
[Mitsuo] They're super creepy.
- Huh?
[light switch clicks]
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
- [gasps]
It's a face.
[gasps] Those faces look like Shuichi's mom and dad.
[overlapping screams]
- Shuichi! - Shuichi!
- Help us, please!
♪ ♪
- Shuichi.
How long have you been there?
- They're calling to me.
- [scoffs] Don't be ridiculous.
That's impossible
- Shuichi!
[Shuichi gasps]
- Help us, Shuichi!
- Shuichi!
- How?
How can my mom and dad be inside that kiln?!
- [panting] - [gasps]
- [moaning] - It burns!
- [wails]
- [wailing] - It burns!
- [groaning] - Shuichi!
- [screaming]
- Shuichi!
[Mr. Goshima] Shuichi!
[Kirie] Shuichi!
- I'll call the fire department!
- [moaning]
♪ ♪
[reporter] This powerful typhoon,
which emerged at such an unusual time in the season,
is expected to proceed...
- Dad, come down!
It's too dangerous to be up there right now!
- I'm done!
- [wind gusts] - [yelps]
[gasps]
[reporter] This monstrous typhoon
has stalled out right above Kurouzu Town,
and fierce winds continue to relentlessly batter that town.
The Japan Meteorological Agency
remains puzzled by what's--
- I'm reporting to you live from Kurouzu Town.
- This typhoon still shows... - Kobayashi?
We're seeing something on the utility pole behind you.
- What? Th-The utility pole?
[gasps]
that was caught by the typhoon's force?
[Kobayashi] Is she dead?
- Yes! I'm still here!
- What's going on?
- Not even the Agency knows why!
- Ki... ri... e.
- What was that?
- I don't know. - Ki... ri... e.
- Huh?
The eye of the storm!
The eye is looking for you!
You gotta see this, Sis!
- Don't be a weirdo, Mitsuo.
It's called the eye of the storm, but storms...
- Ki... ri... e. - don't actually have eyes.
- Ki... ri... e. - [doorbell rings]
[Kirie] Coming.
- Shuichi?!
- Kirie! Come with me!
[ominous music]
- [yelps]
- If you stay, your house and your family
- will both be destroyed! - [gasps]
- Look! That's the eye of the storm!
Do you see those ominous, swirling clouds?
Haven't you heard it?!
It's been calling your name!
Like love at first sight!
This typhoon is completely obsessed with you!
- What? Are you serious?
- Hurry! This way!
- Ki... ri... e.
- [tiles clattering] - [winces]
[yelps]
- Kirie!
- My leg! I'm stuck!
- What? You're stuck?
Damn it!
- Are you okay?!
Hang on! I'll help you!
- [Shuichi gasps] - [gasping]
[screams]
[Shuichi] She was swallowed by the eye of the storm.
- Wh-Why?!
- [gasps]
[air bursts]
- [gags] - [gasps]
[Kirie screams]
- Ki... ri... e.
Ki... ri... e.
- The storm must have taken her,
mistaking her for me.
If the storm stays here much longer,
the whole town will be...
- Ki... ri... e.
[both gasp]
[Shuichi] Get down!
[gasps]
This way!
- [panting]
[wind gusts]
- [Shuichi groaning] - [screams]
[vortex gurgling]
[both gasp]
- Ki... ri... e.
[typhoon rumbling]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- The powerful typhoon that caused tremendous damage
to Kurouzu Town has mysteriously disappeared.
This sudden vanishing remains unexplained.
- [creaking] - What's more,
a second typhoon...
[Mitsuo] Did you hear that?
- I think it might be mice.
I'm so sick of them.
- If you believe the stories,
these houses predate the Meiji era.
I wonder how a crude row house like this
wasn't destroyed by the typhoon.
- I guess it's a lot tougher than it looks, huh?
[wind blowing]
[moan echoes]
- It's him! The monster!
- Hmm? - [moaning fades]
- I knew the rumors were true!
I heard that a monster lives here!
Every night, the monster eats the neighborhood dogs!
- How can you say such an awful thing?
Monsters aren't real, sweetheart.
- It's true! They say a whole bunch have already been eaten!
[knock at the door]
- Coming!
- Mrs. Goshima?
It's me, your neighbor.
- Oh, Mr. Wakabayashi!
- A friend of your mother's?
- He lives to our left.
We introduced ourselves this afternoon.
He said he lost his house in the storm like us.
- Good evening!
- Good evening. Nice meeting you earlier.
- [moaning]
- The real estate agent who helped me find this place
had mentioned that a poor old woman and her son
live in the unit to the right of you.
Apparently, it's the son who's been moaning nonstop.
- What? So it's not a monster?
- So you've heard the rumors.
- Shh. - Quiet.
- They say he looks pretty strange
due to suffering from a chronic illness.
That's how the monster rumor got started.
Don't worry about it.
Well...
- Bye-bye.
- Thank you. That's very kind of you.
Well, I'm glad that there's no monster.
- [door slides] - What a nice young man.
- It's kinda strange, though.
I went by this afternoon to introduce myself,
and it seemed like no one was home.
- Well, the poor woman might be hard of hearing.
Sounded like she's elderly.
- Yeah, that might explain it.
[rain pattering]
[woman moaning]
- [sighs]
- He's making those noises again!
[Kirie] That's not...
Don't you think...
that sounds more like an old woman?
- [pained moaning]
What if something's wrong?
What if something happened to her?!
[mother] Kirie!
- Hang on, Kirie!
- I'll come with you! - I'll go check on her!
- [sobbing] - Excuse me. Ma'am?
Uh, ma'am?
Is everything okay?
- My son!
My son is dead!
[sobbing]
- Hmm?
[screams]
[tense music]
- What'd he look like when you found him?
The son, I mean.
- It's not my place to share those details with you.
- I took a quick peek through the back window a minute ago.
There were tons of little holes in the floor
where the son would have slept.
I couldn't count how many.
What do you think could have caused them?
I really don't know.
I said I don't want to talk about it.
- [chuckles]
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
Kirie...
what a beautiful, strong-willed woman you are.
I can't take my eyes off of you.
[gasping]
[wind blowing]
[wood creaks]
- [sighs]
- [gasps] What the heck are those?!
[squelching]
[Mitsuo yells]
- [grunts]
[both gasp]
- [moans]
[Kirie] W-Wakabayashi?!
[flesh creaks]
- [panting]
[mouse squeaks]
[both gasp]
- [roars]
- [gasping]
- [moaning]
- [exhales] - [screams]
[wind blowing]
- Sis!
[gasps] What is that?!
- Yamaguchi?!
[spring vibrates]
- Whaah!
[spring vibrating]
- [gasps]
- A spring's sticking out of his body!
- Whaah!
- I think that's from a suspension for a car!
[wind blowing]
[singing in Japanese]
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
[crowd murmuring]
- Can't make out what that is. - ...gotta be calm about this.
[murmuring continues]
- What could it be?
- [murmuring]
[Kirie] These strange events kept happening,
affecting our town and all of us within it.
Looking back, by that point,
I had already become numb to everything.
♪ ♪