Lastly, the one of the stops of the Cat Bus is “Grave Road”. Additionally, the older sister of Nakata was said to have seen apparitions of strange rabbit-like and cat-like creatures. However, only Mei and Satsuki can see them, despite the fact that other children were around.
It is said that children in the movie are able to see magical things like this. Later, Satsuki and Mei are escorted by a cat bus that brings them to their mother. The Cat Bus with a sign that says “Grave Road”. Both of these names are said to point to the month during which Ishikawa was convicted and the Sayama incident took place. Satsuki, in Japanese, means May, and Mei is pronounced “May”. The older sister is named Satsuki, and the younger one is named Mei. One of these pieces of evidence is the two sisters’ names. But that hasn’t stopped fans from searching through his movies to find their own theories on what his movies mean. It is said that Miyazaki likes to address political problems in his films, whether or not this is really true. There are a couple of different pieces of evidence that point to the theory that Miyazaki created this film to support Ishikawa in his fight for freedom. Why is Totoro Considered the God of Death? If you’d like more information on the movie, I would strongly encourage that you watch it yourself as I am only covering the main points that I would like to address. At the end of the movie, the two sisters visit their mother at a hospital before returning home. After searching for a while, Mei is found with a spirit named Totoro. Police determine that she has drowned, but Satsuki, devastated, refuses to believe this and runs off to find her little sister. As the story progresses, Mei goes missing and a sandal her size is found in a nearby river. In the beginning of the movie, they are shown moving into a new house. The movie follows the story of two young sisters, Mei and Satsuki. Totoro (left) with Mei (middle) and Satsuki (right). I’ll leave you to decide whether or not Ishikawa was wrongly convicted, but for now, let’s talk about My Neighbor Totoro.
Lastly, we can’t ignore the fact that Ishikawa was held for almost a full month before he confessed, which many people believe led to a forced and pressured confession. However, just 20 meters away, a man who was working near the scene of the crime reported to have heard faint sounds from a festival 500 meters away, but didn’t hear any screams at all. Adding onto that, he said he strangled her because she began to scream. Instead, it is shown that she was strangled by a cloth. He said that he strangled her with his right hand, but this would have made clear bruise marks on her neck which weren’t there. The confession that Ishikawa made did not match the method of Nakata’s murder at all.
The investigators said that they hadn’t seen the bright pink pen because the frame was too high up, although the frame was said to only be about six feet high. The pen was said to have been placed on the top of his door frame. However, they only found this pen the third time they investigated his house, having missed it the first two times despite the fact that each investigation lasted two hours. Additionally, a large part of his conviction was based on the fact that the police found a pen that belonged to Nakata in Ishikawa’s house. In fact, he never even finished elementary school. However, because of his impoverished situation, he never really learned to write and wasn’t fully literate. For example, Ishikawa’s handwriting was said to have matched the ransom note because of a few strange characters that he wrote differently than most other people. However, this evidence may seem insignificant when you take other factors into account. The few characters that Ishikawa had in common with the writer of the ransom note. Lastly, Ishikawa gave an alibi that was proven to be false during his trial. Nakata’s older sister and a polieman also testified that they heard the voice of the kidnapper and that it matched Ishikawa’s voice.
There was also one testimony that Ishikawa had asked about the whereabouts of the house on the night the ransom note was delivered.
What was the evidence that led to his conviction? It is said that Ishikawa’s handwriting and the writing on the ransom note were relatively similar. Ever since he has been released from jail, Ishikawa has been fighting for his innocence. Many people believed the perpetrator had been caught, but the courts had overlooked much of the evidence leading to his innocence due to the fact that he was a Burakumin, a group of impoverished people who faced a lot of social discrimination.
However, after being interrogated for 28 days on end, he confessed to the rape and murder of Nakata. On May 23, a man named Kazuo Ishikawa (or Ishikawa Kazuo for surname last), was arrested for a completely different crime.