A Tokyo Metropolitan Police detective investigating a series of ritualistic murders marked by an X carved into victims' necks or chests. He suspects a hypnotic influence, commits his mentally ill wife to a hospital, tracks the prime suspect to an abandoned building, and shoots him before discovering a hypnotic recording. The film ends with him potentially succumbing to similar hypnosis.
Takabe is the husband of Fumie, who struggles with severe mental illness.
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