Brain Marrow Hell is a suspenseful mystery novel written by Yumeno Hisaku, and is known as the first of the four major reasoning books in Japan. The book makes extensive use of the advanced psychological knowledge of the time, making it seem disorganized and confusing. The novel was adapted into a movie in 1988, and today we will comb through the film.
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1. Legends
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, there was a court painter named Wu Qingxiu who married a wife named Dai. At that time, Xuanzong was seduced by Yang Guifei, and Wu Qingxiu wanted to paint a painting of a person from death to white bones to persuade Xuanzong. So he killed his wife in a cave. But the corpses decayed much faster than he could paint, so he began to kill other women. Soon, the villagers surrounded the cave where he painted, set a fire, and burned the cave. He returned home with unfinished paintings and his wife's relics. Dai had a younger sister named Fen, and Wu Qingxiu has been with Fen ever since. Later, they fled to Japan, where Wu Qingxiu drowned during Fen's pregnancy, and Fen recorded these events after giving birth to a child, passing them down from generation to generation.
2. Amnesia
In the dimly lit room, a teenager wakes up from a coma, and all indications are that he has lost his memory. Just when he was overwhelmed, a woman's voice came from the next room. Soon, a psychology professor who called himself Ruolin walked in and said he could help the teenager retrieve his lost memories. Wakabayashi tells the teenager that this is a mental hospital, and the director, Professor Masaki, died a month ago and is now managed by him. Teenagers have lost their memories because of some experiences, and to retrieve their memories, they need teenagers to rely on their own strength. Then he took the teenager to the next room, where lay a beautiful girl, and the girl saw that the teenager actually called the teenager a brother-in-law. Ruolin asked the teenager if he knew the girl, and the teenager said that he was not impressed.
After leaving the ward, Wakabayashi told the boy about the legend. Tell the teenager that the girl in the next ward thinks that she is the legendary Fen, and the brother-in-law in her mouth is the court painter Wu Qingxiu. The teenager laughed a lot after hearing this, and he thought the girl must be crazy. Ruolin said that the teenager and the girl were both descendants of Wu Qingxiu and Fen, and that some memories of the ancestors could be inherited through blood. The teenager expressed disbelief, and Wakabayashi handed the teenager a newspaper clipping that showed a news report that Wu Ichiro, a student at Kyushu Medical University, strangled his fiancée, Yuko Gomu, on the eve of the wedding.
The teenager realizes that Wakabayashi is telling himself that he is Wu Ichiro, and the girl in the ward is Yuko Kuruki. But for a moment: Kiyuko is dead. Therefore, the teenager is determined: the girl is not Mu Youzi, and she is not Wu Ichiro. Ruolin pointed to the sea in the distance and asked him if he had any impressions, and the teenager said that he did not have any.
The two men went to Professor Masaki's office, where Wakabayashi handed the teenager a thick stack of manuscripts and told him that it had been written by a student and was of great value to their research. The teenager took the manuscript and flipped it over, put it back, and then noticed a picture on the wall. Wakabayashi said that the man was Professor Masaki, and he picked up the manuscript and noticed the photograph, which was something that stimulated his deep memories, and it was these memories that prompted the teenager to stand here.
Wakabayashi told the teenager that Professor Masaki's research far exceeded the understanding of many people, and the greatest of them was the creation of the Liberation Treatment Field to study psychological genetic problems. When the teenager first woke up, he saw Masaki, but he knew nothing about his identity. Later, the teenager fell into a strange circle of thinking in the ward and began to talk to himself continuously. Masaki took him as the subject of his research, but the situation has not improved.
Suddenly, the phone rings, and Jorin picks up the phone. The teenager heard Wakabayashi say on the phone that tomorrow was October 3rd, and the calendar next to him showed that it was September 9th, Wakabayashi told him that it was a month ago calendar, and Masaki died that day, and then handed Masaki's suicide note to the teenager. The suicide note reads: The theory of free therapy was successful, and the turning point of events came in the accident on September 8, 1926, which supported the theory of genetic inheritance...
The teenager expressed puzzlement, Ruolin handed a stack of investigation documents to the teenager, the teenager saw the photos in the documents, and his memory began to slowly recover...
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