The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain

A teenaged girl, Fujino Asagami, is raped by a street gang in an abandoned bar. Later that night, Mikiya finds a confused Fujino crouched in an alley and notices that she is suffering from pain in her abdomen. Mikiya brings her to his apartment where she falls asleep. The next morning, Mikiya notices that Fujino left while he was asleep, and at the same time, the news reports a murder that had occurred in an abandoned bar where the victims' corpses were found with their limbs torn off.

Later, inside Toko's office, Mikiya rants to Toko about not having been paid his monthly salary because she had spent her savings on a Victorian-era ouija board. Toko talks to Shiki about the recent murder and asks Shiki to capture a suspected perpetrator as per a client's request. Shiki, confident she will recognize the suspect on-sight, leaves without reading the suspect's background information. Shiki claims that they will try to kill each other the moment they meet.

Mikiya asks his friend Gakutō to lend him money. Gakutō accepts, but in return asks Mikiya to help him find Keita Minato, a mutual friend who was acquainted with Mikiya during his high school days.

Meanwhile, Fujino is shown attempting to contact Keita on his phone, but Keita does not answer out of fear. Later, Fujino dismembers someone without physically touching him while interrogating him for Keita's whereabouts.

Some time after, Mikiya's sister, Azaka, is chatting with Fujino in a cafe when Shiki approaches Azaka to tell her that Mikiya will not come to see her. Shiki notices Fujino and stares at her with killing intent, but Fujino does not respond. As a result, Shiki does not believe Fujino to be the suspected killer at this time.

Some nights later, Fujino dismembers another victim without physically touching him. The moment that Fujino kills him, Shiki appears to confront her, stating that Fujino is similar to her because of her bloodthirst. As Shiki and Fujino get ready to fight, a sudden change in Fujino's character occurs that makes Shiki no longer desire a fight and leaves. A flashback in Fujino's childhood reveals her playing with a knife along with her toys, seemingly injured and bleeding. However, she continued playing as if she did not feel any pain. Back to the present, Fujino calls Keita's number, saying she is finally feeling pain and therefore feeling alive. But she does not want Keita, the only survivor of the bar's crime scene, to tell everyone she is a murderer, as she wants to live normally, and speaks of her intent to kill him.

Mikiya was with Keita listening to Fujino's phone call. Keita reveals he and his friends have gang raped Fujino for some time, but she did not show any signs of pain or emotion except recently when she was hit in the lower back by one of Keita's friends. Mikiya is disgusted by how Keita and his gang treated Fujino, but he still helps him by bringing him back to Toko's office for protection.

Mikiya then intends to talk to Fujino to stop her quest of revenge. Toko tells him that Keita confessed that his friend stabbed Fujino in her abdomen on the night of the murders and that actually triggered her desire to kill. However, Shiki, when she first met Fujino, noticed she did not have any wounds. She states that the pain is still inside Fujino's body, and she would resort to killing to relieve the pain. Mikiya leaves to investigate Fujino's past.

One night, a driver is about to accidentally crash into Fujino, but is murdered before that happens. Shiki decides she must stop Fujino. A flashback scene shows that Fujino, with an injured leg, once met Mikiya years ago. As Fujino does not feel any pain, Mikiya thinks she is hiding her pain and tells her that pain is something that needs to be spoken about.

Mikiya discovers that initially, Fujino was able to feel pain, but her father (revealed to be her step father in the novels) artificially sealed her ability to feel pain in order to suppress her telekinetic powers. Toko then deduces that Fujino was never stabbed in the first place, but she was indeed feeling pain the moment she was about to be stabbed. Her real pain is caused by an untreated and ruptured appendix, and Toko concludes Fujino does not have much time left to live.

Shiki confronts Fujino on a newly constructed bridge that is sealed off, this time both wishing to defeat one another since Fujino can feel pain and joy from killing. During the fight, Shiki's left arm is twisted and rendered useless by Fujino's power. After constantly fleeing from Fujino's attacks, Shiki is finally able to 'see' through her telekinesis and able to 'cut' them with her 'Mystic Eyes of Death Perception'. Just before being delivered the final blow, Fujino uses her acquired 'clairvoyance' to destroy the entire bridge without the need to actually see her surroundings. An injured and agonizing Fujino tries to escape, realizing her desire to live and love towards Mikiya (and in the novels, her mother). She is found by Shiki who bends down and stabs her.

Mikiya and Toko find Shiki outside of the bridge, who tells them Fujino lost her sensitivity to pain in the end and lost the desire to kill her. Instead, Shiki cut through Fujino's illness. Toko tells Shiki she will replace her left arm with a puppet arm capable of grasping spiritual embodiments. Mikiya calls a medical team to treat Fujino.

In the end, Mikiya confesses to Shiki that he is concerned about Fujino, whose acts will haunt her mind and continue hurting her. Despite the terrible things she had done, she was more human than the gang who abused her. Mikiya also confesses he will stay by Shiki's side, by which Shiki also confesses she feels a small, 'special' murderous intent towards Mikiya'.[1]

• Maaya Sakamoto as Shiki Ryogi (両儀式, Ryōgi Shiki)
• Kenichi Suzumura as Mikiya Kokuto (黒桐幹也, Kokutō Mikiya)
• Takako Honda as Toko Aozaki (蒼崎橙子, Aozaki Tōko)
• Mamiko Noto as Fujino Asagami (浅上藤乃, Asagami Fujino)

• Official Type-Moon website (in Japanese)
• Official film website (in Japanese)
• The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain on IMDb
• The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain (film) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia