Suicide Manual (自殺マニュアル, Jisatsu Manyuaru?) is a 2003 film directed by Fukutani Osamu. The movie follows Yū (played by Kenji Mizuhashi), a cameraman who works for a small TV station. He and his assistant Rie (Chisato Morishita) are sent by their superior, Keita (Hideo Sakaki), to investigate a case of group suicide in which four people poisoned themselves with carbon monoxide. When they enter the apartment they accidentally run into a teenage girl, Nanami Kumatani (played by Ayaka Maede) who was in the pact but backed out in the last minute out of fear. The girl tells them about 'Ricki' (played by Yûko Nakamura) and agrees to show them her suicide manual in exchange for letting her look on the roof of their office. Yū and Rie agree and they take her there. They are possessed by suicide ghosts and suicide. In sequel The Suicide Manual: Intermediate Level (2003) the suicide manual DVD affects more people to suicide, a forensics suicide after fails to stop his girlfriend suicide. The end shows the suicide ghost of producer of the manual DVD.
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