Mizuo

Background

When Mizuo was 24 years old, he was a common worker who carried bags of corn for hours. One day, an Asian vagrant named Sotoba begged him for food, not having eaten for five straight days. The man was frustrated at the vagrant, and made him carry the corn bags in exchange for his food. The vagrant was crushed by the heavy bags. His spirit swore revenge on the man that was to come at his happiest moment.↗

After that, Mizuo had great luck. He received money from relatives and had the idea to process corn into corn flakes and popcorn. The idea was a big hit and he became a rich man, the master of a mansion with several servants. He married a model, and they eventually had a daughter named Maria.↗

At a Confessional

Mizuo later goes to a confession booth to confess his sins, now bearing the weight of two people's deaths. He confesses to Rohan Kishibe, who had mistakenly entered the priest side to research the church. As the man exits the booth, it is revealed that both Sotoba and Tamiya's spirits swear revenge on him, vowing to watch him around the clock to make sure he never tricks them again. Rohan watches him leave with curiosity, and decides to interview him later if given the chance.↗↗

Film History

In the movie, Mizuo's past is altered from the original one-shot. Mizuo was a Japanese who aimlessly travelled the world. In Venice, someone stole his funds, forcing him to pick up work there as a demolition site worker. Because he was alone and a foreigner, the workers there exploited him. One day, as he went to work, Mizuo saw the vagrant Sotoba being thrown out of his workplace.↗

Mizuo's life turned around as a string of luck made him more and more successful. However, he couldn't feel any joy because of the anxiety he felt. The movie changes the reason of his fortune from a successful pop corn sweet to Mizuo's investments being very successful, including a glass processing company. Mizuo married a model and had a daughter with her, Maria. He hired a conman named Tamiya to switch faces with him once and trick Sotoba's ghost.↗

When Sotoba's ghost attacked, Mizuo had already taken on Tamiya's face and was thrown aside and thus could safely observe the real Tamiya's ordeal against Sotoba. When the ghost was satisfied at having won his wager and killed Tamiya, he left Maria's body and Mizuo picked her up. Unfortunately, when Mizuo stumbled upon Tamiya's corpse, Tamiya's vengeful ghost cursed him a second time and promised he would taste despair the moment Maria would be at her happiest.↗

From that point on, Mizuo became truly obsessed with avoiding happiness and notably controlled Maria's entire life so that she could not feel her greatest joy. Mizuo became a gloomy man obsessed with causing bad luck for himself, divorced his wife but kept custody of Maria. During her youth, Mizuo constantly told Maria to avoid being too happy and passed on his habits to Maria. However, Maria eventually fell in love with a man, Lorenzo Grimani, and the two soon planned to marry.↗

Later, one of Mizuo's men shows Lorenzo Grimani being friendly with a woman and goes to Maria's home to show photos of the two together to persuade her that Lorenzo is cheating on her. Maria fully trusts Lorenzo and thus Mizuo tries to dissuade her to marry by appealing to her affection for him. Maria hesitates and Mizuo snatches her spare wedding dress to get rid of it. Rohan, who had also fatefully met Maria and learned about their relationship, confronts Mizuo on top of Maria's haunted manor.↗

Later, Mizuo hears from his man that Lorenzo and Maria have hastened the wedding. He goes to the scheduled church to stop the ceremony but Rohan confronts him. Rohan urges him to reject the curse's fortune, pointing out his own improbable luck since reading the confessor. Such as a winning lottery ticket landing at his feet. The confessor thus reveals a revolver and attempts to shoot himself, but it fails to fire when pointed at his own head, even though all chambers are loaded.↗

Mizuo starts to panic, knowing that the hour draws near, and rushes to the church, followed by Rohan. Just after Maria and Lorenzo say their vows, one of the hired men opens fire. Maria throws herself in front of Lorenzo, taking the bullet for him. Devastated, Mizuo starts repeating to himself that he has been saved from the curse, alas seemingly at the cost of his daughter's life. He eventually flees as ghostly laughter echoes. Mizuo is last seen wailing in an alley, flanked by the two ghosts.↗

Personality

When Sotoba dies under the pressure of the work and hunger, he becomes a vengeful spirit that curses Mizuo for his cruelty.↗

Personality / Film Personality

When Tamiya 's ghost swears to make Mizuo taste despair in his daughter Maria 's happiest moment, Mizuo's fears of both happiness and death deeply affect his relationship with her.↗

When he is made to believe she has died, he plunges into the greatest despair possible: that of losing a loved one.↗

Profile details

Status: Alive (TSKR)↗

Mizuo is an average worker who causes the death of a vagrant and lives his life in fear of the vagrant's revenge as a spirit.↗