E1 - Death Row Inmate Satake Hirofumi

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[00:03] Satake/I
    My name is Satake Hirofumi.
SIGN    Satake Hirofumi
[00:07] Judge
    The court has found
    the defendant, Satake Hirofumi…
[00:10] Satake/I
    I'm an ordinary, run-of-the-mill...
[00:13] Judge
    The defendant, Satake Hirofumi,
    is hereby sentenced to death.
[00:17] Satake/I
    ...death row inmate.
[00:41] ---
    The Human Crazy University
SIGN    Episode 1
SIGN    The
    Ruthless,
    Cruel
    Man
    Who
    Slaughtered
    His
    Fiancée
SIGN    Death-Row Inmate
    Satake Hirofumi
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SIGN    Kadota Kenji
[01:56] Kadota
    Well, that should be good.
[01:59] Shimoda
    Kadota-san, I'm finished over here.
SIGN    Shimoda Tadashi
[02:02] Kadota
    Okay, very good.
[02:05] Kadota
    Shimoda?
[02:06] Shimoda
    Oh, I'm sorry.
[02:11] Shimoda
    I've never witnessed an execution...
[02:15] Kadota
    Has it been a year or so
    since you were assigned here?
[02:20] Shimoda
    Yes.
[02:21] Shimoda
    So this is where they carry out executions.
[02:24] Kadota
    There are seven execution
    chambers in this country.
SIGN    Sapporo
SIGN    Sendai
SIGN    Tokyo
SIGN    Nagoya
SIGN    Osaka
SIGN    Hiroshima
SIGN    Fukuoka
[02:28] Kadota
    This is one of them.
[02:30] Kadota
    This is where capital
    punishment is administered.
SIGN    Nagoya
SIGN    Nagoya
SIGN    Osaka
[02:35] Shimoda
    Anyhow, why were we told
    to clean up this place out of the blue?
[02:41] Kadota
    Who knows?
[02:43] Kadota
    Maybe they're trying
    to cut down on janitors.
[02:49] Satake/I
    A death row inmate's life is peaceful
    and quiet on the surface.
SIGN    Red Demon
[02:54] Satake/I
    There's no penal labor,
    so there's a lot of free time.
[02:57] Satake/I
    To kill time, death row
    inmates take up new hobbies.
[03:03] Satake/I
    Reading books, composing haiku...
    some even get religious.
[03:12] Satake/I
    Shimoda-san...
[03:14] Satake
    The book you recommended was so good.
[03:18] Shimoda
    Right?
[03:19] Shimoda
    I love the part where the
    red-haired punk goes nuts!
[03:23] Satake
    I felt refreshed reading that scene as well.
[03:27] Shimoda
    I told my sister about the book too,
    and she got hooked.
[03:31] Shimoda
    She can't seem to put it down.
[03:33] Satake
    I know how she feels.
[03:36] Satake
    I'm glad she liked it too.
[03:39] Shimoda
    Yeah.
[03:40] Shimoda
    The Red Demon series will continue,
     so just hang in there.
SIGN    Red Demon
SIGN    Series Continues!
[03:47] Satake
    The next volume...
[03:49] Satake
    Do you think I'll get to read it?
[03:51] Shimoda
    Huh? Oh, well...
[03:54] Satake
    Shimoda-san, thank you very much.
[03:57] Shimoda
    What's that about?
[03:59] Satake
    Before I came here, I had no time for books.
[04:04] Satake
    So I never knew about this
    amazing world of reading.
[04:08] Satake
    It's all thanks to you
    recommending that I read.
[04:11] Shimoda
    Please. It was nothing.
[04:14] Satake
    I'm so grateful that I got
    to experience this at the end of my life.
[04:21] Satake
    That reminds me. I have a question.
[04:24] Shimoda
    What is it?
[04:25] Shimoda
    As long as it's not classified, I'll answer.
[04:29] Satake
    It's about my last meal.
[04:31] Shimoda
    Huh?
[04:32] Satake
    In the US, death row inmates can request
    what they want to eat for their last meals.
SIGN    Last Meal
SIGN    Last Meal
SIGN    Last Meal
SIGN    Last Meal
SIGN    Last Meal
SIGN    Last Meal
[04:40] Satake
    Do we do that in Japan?
[04:42] Shimoda
    I heard we used to do that in Japan too.
[04:46] Shimoda
    But not anymore.
SIGN    m 533 53 l 582 51 593 111 591 166 576 191 540 190 526 123
SIGN    What
     do you
     want to
     eat for
     your last
     meal?
[04:48] Shimoda/I
    If we ask for a request,
[04:50] Shimoda/I
    that tips off the inmate
    that their execution is approaching.
[04:50] Sign (Right)
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SIGN    Does
     that mean…
[04:51] Sign (Left)
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SIGN    I'll
    be
     exe-
    cuted
     soon?!
[04:52] Shimoda/I
    There's a risk that they'll
    take their own life out of fear.
[04:56] Shimoda
    Oh, sorry.
[04:58] Satake
    It's fine.
[05:00] Satake
    I see. That's too bad.
[05:03] Satake
    I love fish. In particular,
    sea bream sashimi is my favorite food.
[05:08] Satake
    But due to a certain circumstance,
    I couldn't eat it anymore.
[05:12] Satake
    If I could request a last meal,
[05:14] Satake
    I would've wanted to eat my fill of that.
[05:16] Shimoda
    Satake...
[05:17] Kadota
    Shimoda, the warden is asking for you.
[05:21] Shimoda
    Okay. See you later, Satake.
SIGN    Warden's Office
[05:30] Shimida
    Excuse me.
[05:32] Warden
    An execution will be
    carried out on the 25th.
[05:37] Warden
    Shimoda, your role is to hold
    onto the rope that will hang the inmate.
[05:42] Warden
    Got that?
[05:44] Shimoda
    Y-Yes. I understand.
[05:48] Shimoda
    Excuse me, Warden.
[05:50] Shimoda
    This execution is for...
[05:53] Warden
    For number 134.
[05:55] Shimoda
    What?!
[05:56] Shimoda
    Number 134 is...
[05:59] Shimoda
    Satake Hirofumi?!
[06:03] Warden
    That's right.
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[06:12] Shimoda
    Kadota-san...
[06:14] Kadota
    What's your role?
[06:17] Shimoda
    I have to hold onto the rope
    that hangs the inmate so it doesn't sway.
[06:23] Kadota
    I'm in charge of pressing a button.
[06:27] Shimoda
    One of the three buttons?
[06:31] Kadota/I
    There are three buttons that
    can operate the trap door.
[06:34] Kadota/I
    One of the buttons is randomly
    assigned to open the trap door.
[06:39] Kadota/I
    Three executioners press
    the buttons at the same time,
[06:43] Kadota/I
    making it impossible to identify
    who actually took the inmate's life.
[06:48] Kadota/I
    This lessens the psychological
    burden on the executioners.
[06:51] Kadota
    But I still have to press a button.
[06:56] Kadota
    My heart is heavy.
[06:58] Shimoda
    Helping execute someone...
[07:01] Shimoda
    I'm scared.
[07:03] Kadota
    It'll be all right.
[07:04] Kadota
    I'm here for you.
[07:06] Kadota
    You seem to have gotten close to Satake.
[07:10] Shimota
    I...
[07:11] Kadota
    I've got nothing against it.
[07:13] Kadota
    But you saw Satake's record, right?
[07:17] Kadota
    He abused his fiancée daily,
[07:21] Kadota/I
    suspected that she was cheating
    on him with a friend,
[07:25] Kadota/I
    stabbed them both to death, and started a fire.
[07:28] Kadota/I
    He deserves the death penalty.
[07:31] Kadota
    He's an atrocious criminal,
    and deserves no sympathy.
[07:35] Shimoda
    But he's a really good guy in front of me.
[07:39] Kadota
    Death row inmates are assigned no penal labor.
[07:42] Kadota
    The death penalty is their punishment,
[07:45] Kadota
    and the only way to atone for their crimes.
[07:48] Kadota
    Executing the penalty correctly
    so that they can atone for their crimes...
[07:52] Kadota
    As prison guards, that's our
     role in seeing justice done.
[07:56] Kadota
    Am I wrong?
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[08:01] Satake/I
    The execution is announced
    to the death row inmate
[08:04] Satake/I
    at 9:00 AM on the day of the execution.
[08:07] Satake/I
    It used to be announced the day before,
[08:11] Satake/I
    but many inmates took their own lives
    out of fear of the death penalty.
[08:16] Satake/I
    So now, they notify on the day of.
[08:19] Satake/I
    I had let my guard down because my life
    as a death row inmate was so peaceful.
[08:24] Satake/I
    I assumed that 9:00 AM
    would come and go as usual,
[08:28] Satake/I
    that I would read books
    all day long as usual...
SIGN    Red Demon
[08:33] Prison Guard
    Number 134, Satake Hirofumi, step out.
[08:40] Satake
    Um... Me?
[08:43] Satake
    Is it... my execution?
[08:47] Prison Guard
    That's right.
SIGN    Chaplain's Room
[08:51] Prison Guard
    This is a room where the inmate can collect
     himself and spend his last hours in peace.
[08:57] Prison Guard
    You are free to help yourself
    to the food on the table.
[09:00] Prison Guard
    You can smoke, or use
    this time to write a will.
[09:06] Satake
    Could this be...?
[09:10] Satake
    Shimoda-san, thank you very much.
[09:20] Satake
    It's good.
[09:22] Satake
    It's very tasty.
[09:33] Satake
    Shimoda-san...
[09:35] Shimoda
    Y-Yeah?
[09:37] Satake
    The sea bream was very good.
[09:42] Satake
    I'll never forget our time
    talking about novels.
[09:59] Satake
    No... I don't want this!
[10:02] Satake
    I don't want to die!
[10:03] Satake
    Stop!
[10:07] Satake
    Stop it, please!
[10:11] Satake
    Please stop!
[10:12] Satake
    I'm scared!
[10:13] Satake
    Help me!
[10:15] Satake
    Mommy!
[10:22] Sign
    The Human Crazy University
[10:25] Sign
    The Human Crazy University
[10:32] Satake/I
    Huh? Is this me?
[10:36] Satake/I
    Why?
[10:46] Satake
    Where am I?
[10:48] Professor
    You should not move too suddenly.
[10:51] Professor
    You sustained some serious
    damage to your neck.
[10:57] Satake
    My neck?
[10:58] Satake
    A motorcycle accident...
[11:00] Professor
    A motorcycle?
[11:02] Professor
    Oh! It was in your documentation.
[11:05] Professor
    A few years ago,
[11:07] Professor
    you got caught in a trap set
    by a guy who was attempting indiscriminate murders.
[11:12] Professor
    Someone strung a piece of plastic
    rope painted in black across the road,
[11:16] Professor
    right at the height of someone's
    throat who's on a motorcycle.
[11:22] Professor
    You got caught in it
    and suffered a severe injury.
[11:27] Professor
    It's a miracle you didn't die.
[11:30] Professor
    I really am impressed.
[11:32] Professor
    Your neck is incredibly strong.
[11:37] Professor
    Oh, I see.
[11:39] Professor
    That's why this time...
[11:42] Satake
    "This time"?
[11:44] Professor
    You survived the death penalty.
[11:50] Satake
    Excuse me?
[11:53] Professor
    Can you state your full name?
[11:57] Satake
    My full name?
[11:59] Satake
    Um, I'm...
[12:03] Professor
    Your name is Satake Hirofumi.
SIGN    Satake Hirofumi
[12:08] Satake
    Satake… Hirofumi…
SIGN    Satake Hirofumi?
[12:08] Chibi-Satake
    Hmm? Let's see...
[12:11] Satake
    That's right.
[12:13] Satake
    My name is Satake Hirofumi…
SIGN    Satake Hirofumi
[12:14] Chibi-Satake
    I remember!
SIGN    memory
SIGN    memory
[12:17] Professor
    You seem to be experiencing a memory impairment.
SIGN    memory
SIGN    memory
[12:20] Professor
    It's only natural.
[12:22] Satake
    You mentioned the death penalty.
[12:25] Satake
    What does that mean?
[12:26] Professor
    Just as I said.
[12:28] Professor
    You're a death row inmate.
[12:31] Satake
    Death row inmate? Me?
[12:35] Professor
    Technically, a former death row inmate.
SIGN    Re-Execution
SIGN    Release
[12:39] Professor
    Currently, they're working out
    how to handle your case.
[12:45] Professor
    You came back from your
    execution alive, after all.
[12:50] Satake
    "Came back"? What?
SIGN    Death Penalty
[12:53] Professor
    The death penalty is a punishment
    that enforces death.
SIGN    A punishment that enforces death
[12:57] Professor
    The punishment was enforced,
    and you died once.
[12:59] Chibi Satake
    Mommy!
[13:02] Chibi Satake
    I'm dead.
[13:03] Professor
    The judicial power to execute
    you is exhausted at this point,
SIGN    Judiciary
SIGN    Power to Execute
[13:06] Professor
    so logically speaking,
[13:09] Professor
    it's not possible to execute you again
    after you've come back to life.
[13:11] Chibi Satake
    Hooray!
[13:17] Professor
    Thus, you're a former death row inmate,
SIGN    Former Death-Row Inmate
[13:20] Professor
    although various lawyers may have
     different opinions about that.
[13:27] Professor
    Anyhow, this is almost unprecedented.
[13:33] Professor
    I hear it's giving the higher-ups
    quite the headache.
SIGN    What to do...
[13:39] Satake
    Is it really possible to come back
    from an execution?
[13:44] Professor
    I said almost unprecedented.
[13:46] Professor
    So it's happened before.
SIGN    Meiji 4
[13:50] Professor
    In 1871, in Sekitetsu Prefecture,
SIGN    Sekitetsu Prefecture
[13:53] Professor
    which is now the Chuyo and Toyo regions
    of the current Ehime Prefecture,
SIGN    (Ehime Prefecture, Chuyo and Toyo regions)
SIGN    Tanaka Tosaku (31)
[13:57] Professor
    a 31-year-old death row inmate named
    Tanaka Tosaku was executed by hanging.
[14:06] Professor
    His death was confirmed, and his body
    was on its way to his relative's house...
[14:16] (Flashback) Carrier 1
    Huh? Did you hear that?
[14:18] (Flashback) Carrier 2
    Yeah...
[14:26] (Flashback) Carrier 2
    Eek!
[14:27] (Flashback) Carrier 1
    He came back to life!
[14:29] Professor
    This is called the Sekitetsu Death Row
    Inmate Resurrection Incident.
[14:34] Satake
    And what happened to this Tosaku after?
[14:39] Professor
    He was sentenced to death,
[14:41] Professor
    not because he committed
    a capital crime like murder,
[14:43] Professor
    but because he torched a building
    during a riot against the Meiji government.
[14:50] Professor
    They ruled that there were grounds for mercy,
    and he was cleared of his charges.
SIGN      He came back to life
     after being executed.
    
      No further discussion
     necessary.
    
      Immediately return
     to your permanent
     residence.
[14:55] Professor
    But in your case, you are guilty of murder.
[15:01] Satake
    A dead man coming back to life...
[15:04] Satake
    It's hard to believe.
[15:06] Professor
    Incidents where the dead return to life are
     reported all over the world, even now.
[15:12] Professor
    In Ukraine, an 83-year-old woman's death
[15:15] Professor
    was confirmed by
    the ambulance crew and the police,
[15:19] Professor
    but she regained consciousness
    ten hours later.
[15:24] Professor
    In Venezuela, a 33-year-old man died
    in a car crash on a highway.
[15:30] Professor
    But during the autopsy, he sprang back up
    from the pain of being cut.
[15:40] Professor
    There's even a case reported
    of a corpse left in the morgue for three days
[15:43] Professor
    coming back to life.
[15:47] Satake
    I never knew it was so common.
[15:50] Professor
    However, whether these stories are
    true or not is debatable.
[15:54] Professor
    Even with Tosaku's execution,
[15:57] Professor
    that happened in the Meiji era, when they didn't
    have a lot of experience with the gallows,
SIGN    Back in those days, the execution process was
    "weigh down for three minutes and release
     the rope upon symptoms of death.
[16:00] Professor
    and they didn't have reliable techniques
    for determining death.
[16:05] Professor
    You surviving a contemporary Japanese
    execution is an absolute anomaly.
[16:08] Chibi-Satake
    Yay!
[16:11] Satake
    So how did I survive?
[16:15] Professor
    A gallows is designed to cause an instant death
    by cervical fracture from the fall, not from suffocation.
[16:26] Professor
    However, sometimes those who have very
     strong necks, like you do, survive the fall.
[16:35] Professor
    That's why the body is left for 15 to 30 minutes
    after the execution to cause suffocation.
[16:43] Professor
    After that, a coroner confirms the death,
[16:48] Professor
    and the body is released from the rope.
[16:52] Professor
    Normally, this is enough to cause certain death.
[16:57] Professor
    But the truth is,
[16:59] Professor
    you were already dead from a different cause,
    not cervical fracture or suffocation.
SIGN    Cervical Fracture
SIGN    Suffocation
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SIGN    Dead
[17:06] Satake
    Huh?
[17:06] Professor
    You had sea bream sashimi right
    before the execution.
SIGN    Anaphylactic Shock
SIGN    Exposure to allergens resulting in life-threatening,
     acute allergic reactions throughout the body
[17:11] Professor
    And you went into anaphylactic shock
    because of it.
[17:16] Satake
    Um... right.
[17:19] Satake
    Now I remember.
[17:20] Satake
    I could die from eating fish.
[17:24] Professor
    That's right.
[17:25] Professor
    You have developed an allergy
    to the fish parasite, Anisakis.
[17:32] Professor
    Anisakis is a nematode that lives in fish.
SIGN    Anisakis
[17:36] Satake
    Thank you for the food.
[17:36] Professor
    It can also live in humans,
[17:40] Professor
    and occasionally, there are
    people who have allergic reactions.
[17:44] Professor
    Anisakis exists in almost all fish,
    so once you develop this allergy,
[17:53] Professor
    every time you eat fish,
    there's a risk of anaphylactic shock.
[17:59] Professor
    Therefore, you couldn't eat fish
    after this incident.
[18:05] Professor
    Despite that, you ate sea bream
    sashimi right before the execution,
[18:10] Professor
    and you went into anaphylactic
    shock during the execution.
[18:14] (Flashback) Coroner
    Death is confirmed.
[18:16] Professor
    Of course, the coroner mistook it as death.
[18:21] Professor
    But you were released from the rope
    before you had suffocated,
[18:26] Professor
    in a state of death from anaphylactic shock.
[18:29] Professor
    Or rather, in a state of apparent death.
[18:32] Professor
    And you miraculously came back to life.
[18:38] Professor
    With anaphylactic shock,
[18:40] Professor
    even if it's severe, there's a
     slim chance of recovery.
[18:45] Professor
    Your resurrection must be
    the product of that slight chance.
[18:50] Satake
    Is something that crazy even possible?!
[18:54] Professor
    Normally, no.
[18:57] Professor
    But it has indeed happened.
[19:00] Professor
    More importantly, Satake-san,
[19:03] Professor
    you may not remember this right now,
[19:07] Professor
    but your whole life's been
    one such crazy event after another.
[19:13] Professor
    You look like you don't believe me.
[19:17] Professor
    Hm...
[19:19] Professor
    So far, you've contracted various diseases
    from all over the world and survived.
[19:26] Professor
    Infectious diseases, parasites, poisons…
SIGN    Infectious Disease
SIGN    Parasites
SIGN    Poisons
[19:31] Professor
    Let's see... Let me give you some examples.
[19:35] Professor
    Smallpox, anthrax,
SIGN    Smallpox
SIGN    Anthrax
[19:37] Professor
    Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever,
SIGN    Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
[19:39] Professor
    SFTS Virus, Streptococcus, B virus,
SIGN    SFTS Virus
SIGN    Streptococcus
SIGN    Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
SIGN    B Virus
SIGN    Bird Flu
[19:44] Professor
    bird-flu, Echinococcus, venom
    of the king cobra, Guinea worm…
SIGN    Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
SIGN    Echinococcus
SIGN    Venom of the King Cobra
SIGN    Bird Flu
SIGN    Echinococcus
SIGN    Guinea Worm
[19:47] Satake
    Hold on, hold on!
[19:49] Professor
    What's the matter? I'm still on page one.
[19:53] Satake
    No one could possibly survive all that!
[19:55] Satake
    I'm not an expert,
[19:57] Satake
    but smallpox and anthrax
    are deadly, aren't they?
SIGN    Smallpox
SIGN    Anthrax
[20:02] Satake
    All those other names you brought up
    sounded scary as hell too.
[20:06] Professor
    They are indeed scary.
SIGN    Smallpox
[20:09] Professor
    Simply calculating the survival
    rate of all of these diseases,
SIGN    Anthrax
SIGN    Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
SIGN    SFTS Virus
SIGN    Streptococcus
SIGN    B Virus
SIGN    Bird Flu
SIGN    Echinococcus
SIGN    Venom of the King Cobra
SIGN    Guinea Worm
[20:16] Professor
    the number is below 0.2%.
SIGN    Survival Rate Below 0.2%
[20:20] Satake
    So low!
[20:21] Professor
    Forget "low."
[20:23] Professor
    It's a miracle.
[20:25] Professor
    And setting aside the diseases,
[20:27] Professor
    you've been involved in
     crazy amounts of trouble,
[20:30] Professor
    accidents, and incidents,
    and you survived everything.
[20:35] Professor
    The motorcycle accident I mentioned earlier
    is nothing compared to the other stuff.
[20:40] Satake
    You're kidding, right?
[20:41] Professor
    "Undead Man." That's your nickname.
[20:46] Professor
    You're a celebrity
    in our industry, you know?
[20:51] Satake
    A man who won't die.
[20:53] Satake
    You said, "industry"?
[20:57] Professor
    Satake-san, your existence is a miracle.
[21:01] Professor
    No, it's a bug.
[21:04] Professor
    In this world created by God,
    you're a crazy bug in the system.
[21:09] Professor
    I want to research someone like you.
[21:13] Satake
    Aren't you a doctor?
[21:16] Satake
    What exactly are you?
[21:18] Satake
    And this isn't an infirmary
    in the detention center, is it?
[21:23] Satake
    Where am I?
[21:24] Professor
    I guess I haven't introduced myself yet.
[21:29] Professor
    You may call me Professor.
SIGN    Professor
[21:34] Professor
    And this is the Human Defect Research Center,
[21:39] Professor
    where we study crazy and absurd phenomena
    reported from all over the world.
SIGN    Human Defect Research Center
[21:46] Professor
    They call us the Human Crazy University!
[21:48] Sign
    The Human Crazy University
[21:50] Satake
    "Human Crazy"...
[21:52] Professor
    Satake-san...
[21:54] Professor
    Until they figure out how to handle
    your case, please let me study you.
SIGN    A
    Lucky
    Coin
     That
     Leads
     to
     Death
SIGN    Lives Perish
    Adrift for 48 Days
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