1 00:00:01,541 --> 00:00:06,503 A Tasogare Seibei Film Partners Production 2 00:00:19,643 --> 00:00:24,773 Seibei Iguchi Hiroyuki Sanada 3 00:00:25,232 --> 00:00:30,403 Tomoe Rie Miyazawa 4 00:00:30,821 --> 00:00:35,950 Zenemon Yogo Min Tanaka 5 00:00:36,410 --> 00:00:41,456 From Stories by Shuhei Fujisawa 6 00:00:41,999 --> 00:00:47,087 Screenplay Yoji Yamada & Yoshitaka Asama 7 00:00:47,588 --> 00:00:49,255 Producer Shigehiro Nakagawa 8 00:00:49,340 --> 00:00:51,091 Producer Hiroshi Fukasawa 9 00:00:51,175 --> 00:00:52,842 Producer Ichiro Yamamoto 10 00:00:53,177 --> 00:00:54,803 Cinematography Mutsuo Naganuma 11 00:00:54,887 --> 00:00:56,596 Art Director Mitsuo Degawa 12 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:58,389 Artistic Supervisor Yoshinobu Nishioka 13 00:00:58,766 --> 00:00:59,974 Lighting Gen Nakaoka 14 00:01:00,101 --> 00:01:01,351 Costume Design Kazuko Kurosawa 15 00:01:01,435 --> 00:01:02,685 Editor Iwao Ishii 16 00:01:02,770 --> 00:01:04,020 Sound Recordist Kazumi Kishida 17 00:01:04,396 --> 00:01:06,856 Music Isao Tomita 18 00:01:06,941 --> 00:01:09,567 Theme Song Yosui Inoue 19 00:01:09,944 --> 00:01:16,324 Directed by Yoji Yamada 20 00:01:18,786 --> 00:01:20,620 The poor dear! 21 00:01:21,914 --> 00:01:23,123 Not that way. 22 00:01:34,135 --> 00:01:35,426 No, no, no! 23 00:01:42,226 --> 00:01:43,768 Thank you. You may go. 24 00:01:43,853 --> 00:01:46,604 My deepest sympathies in your loss. 25 00:01:59,827 --> 00:02:03,246 After a long illness my mother died... 26 00:02:04,290 --> 00:02:06,708 when I was five. 27 00:02:07,668 --> 00:02:10,670 She had consumption... 28 00:02:11,547 --> 00:02:16,467 so from when I can remember I wasn't allowed near her. 29 00:02:17,094 --> 00:02:21,848 Thus I have almost no memory of my mother. 30 00:02:29,106 --> 00:02:32,317 Ito... Ito... 31 00:02:33,819 --> 00:02:36,571 You poor little darling! 32 00:02:59,678 --> 00:03:05,850 I am from Unasaka, in the northeast, in what is now Yamagata Prefecture. 33 00:03:06,810 --> 00:03:10,980 Before 1868 it was the castle town of the Unasaka clan... 34 00:03:11,065 --> 00:03:14,275 a small fief of 70,000 koku of rice per year. 35 00:03:38,050 --> 00:03:40,385 Well done, one and all. 36 00:03:41,428 --> 00:03:43,554 That's it for today. 37 00:03:50,521 --> 00:03:51,980 Sakaguchi... 38 00:03:52,940 --> 00:03:57,277 I've heard there's a good drinking place in Hakkenmachi... 39 00:03:57,695 --> 00:03:59,946 Oh, you mean 'Hisago'? 40 00:04:00,030 --> 00:04:01,864 Feel like a drink? 41 00:04:01,949 --> 00:04:03,157 A fine idea. 42 00:04:04,952 --> 00:04:07,537 Kawanami, will you come? 43 00:04:07,830 --> 00:04:09,122 I will. 44 00:04:09,206 --> 00:04:10,290 Iguchi? 45 00:04:11,709 --> 00:04:13,626 For a change? 46 00:04:13,711 --> 00:04:15,378 Not me, thanks. 47 00:04:15,462 --> 00:04:16,963 We can't twist your arm? 48 00:04:17,589 --> 00:04:19,132 If you'll excuse me... 49 00:04:23,345 --> 00:04:26,639 Twilight's not very exciting, is he. 50 00:04:37,192 --> 00:04:42,488 With a sick wife, two young daughters and an aged mother in his care... 51 00:04:42,573 --> 00:04:47,160 my father was unable to drink with his colleagues. 52 00:04:47,369 --> 00:04:52,582 He had to hurry home every evening at dusk. 53 00:05:02,885 --> 00:05:07,180 I was told the men he worked with... 54 00:05:08,307 --> 00:05:13,394 gave him the cruel nickname of 'Twilight Seibei'. 55 00:05:15,939 --> 00:05:24,906 THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI 56 00:05:36,001 --> 00:05:37,251 Ito... 57 00:05:37,419 --> 00:05:38,878 Father! 58 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:41,297 Up you go! 59 00:05:47,346 --> 00:05:49,138 Your face is dirty. 60 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:07,949 Father's back! 61 00:06:08,409 --> 00:06:09,742 Welcome home. 62 00:06:16,125 --> 00:06:19,419 Codfish stew tonight, Kayano? 63 00:06:22,464 --> 00:06:23,714 Don't drop it. 64 00:06:26,885 --> 00:06:31,472 I'm home, Mother. How are you this evening? 65 00:06:31,807 --> 00:06:34,183 Of what household are you, sir? 66 00:06:35,853 --> 00:06:40,106 I am Seibei Iguchi of the Unasaka Clan, Castle Stores. 67 00:06:40,190 --> 00:06:41,482 I see... 68 00:06:44,945 --> 00:06:50,616 She's getting worse. She doesn't even know her own son! 69 00:06:57,291 --> 00:07:01,878 Kayano, I've simmered some burdock. Take some. 70 00:07:03,088 --> 00:07:05,673 Thank you. You're always so kind to my daughters. 71 00:07:07,801 --> 00:07:10,845 Naota... you can go home now. 72 00:07:11,305 --> 00:07:12,346 Yup. 73 00:07:27,529 --> 00:07:29,197 Good evening. 74 00:07:31,325 --> 00:07:35,161 But Yazaki, can't we do something about Twilight? 75 00:07:36,079 --> 00:07:39,999 His kimono's all ripped, and hardly ever takes a bath. 76 00:07:40,083 --> 00:07:42,835 There's this smell when you get close to him. 77 00:07:43,462 --> 00:07:45,755 It just won't do! 78 00:07:45,839 --> 00:07:49,509 Yes, sir. We all find it very hard to stomach. 79 00:07:49,593 --> 00:07:53,346 We've asked around about finding him a new wife... 80 00:07:53,430 --> 00:07:56,724 but no woman would want his situation. 81 00:07:56,808 --> 00:07:58,351 Indeed! 82 00:07:58,435 --> 00:08:01,521 He's got two young girls, a senile old mother... 83 00:08:01,605 --> 00:08:06,067 and 20 of his 50 koku gone in debt. 84 00:08:06,151 --> 00:08:10,613 Any woman who went to him would have to take in work. 85 00:08:11,114 --> 00:08:14,242 Yes, he owes money all over the place. 86 00:08:14,785 --> 00:08:17,870 I don't know how he paid for his wife's funeral. 87 00:08:18,413 --> 00:08:22,500 Not even selling your sword would pay for a funeral like that. 88 00:08:22,584 --> 00:08:26,587 A funeral! That's something I have to worry about, too. 89 00:08:26,838 --> 00:08:30,299 My father's not going to last much longer. 90 00:08:31,969 --> 00:08:36,389 Kawanami's lucky. Young parents and a pretty wife! 91 00:08:36,974 --> 00:08:41,894 You'd better go easy with her. It could hurt your work. 92 00:08:41,979 --> 00:08:46,190 Is that why you're always cat-napping on the job? 93 00:08:47,651 --> 00:08:49,318 I am not! 94 00:08:49,403 --> 00:08:50,903 Listen to him! 95 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:52,863 O-Kumi... 96 00:08:52,948 --> 00:08:54,574 Welcome! 97 00:08:54,658 --> 00:08:55,658 Isn't she gorgeous! 98 00:08:56,243 --> 00:08:57,368 O-Kume... 99 00:09:23,937 --> 00:09:25,646 Bed-time, Gran. 100 00:09:28,233 --> 00:09:30,776 Good night, Seibei. 101 00:09:30,861 --> 00:09:32,320 Good night. 102 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,117 It looks like she remembered me. 103 00:09:40,245 --> 00:09:46,542 'The Master said: To rule a land of a thousand chariots...' 104 00:09:46,627 --> 00:09:47,627 Kayano... 105 00:09:48,462 --> 00:09:53,174 That's Confucius, isn't it? When did you start learning that? 106 00:09:53,258 --> 00:09:57,303 At the end of last month. The teacher says... 107 00:09:57,387 --> 00:10:01,140 from now on even girls will need book learning. 108 00:10:01,224 --> 00:10:03,142 That's good. 109 00:10:03,226 --> 00:10:07,313 When I was a boy I read Confucius over and over again. 110 00:10:11,943 --> 00:10:13,361 Father... 111 00:10:14,655 --> 00:10:17,573 If I learn to do needlework... 112 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,703 someday I can make kimonos. 113 00:10:24,122 --> 00:10:28,209 But what good will book learning ever do me? 114 00:10:32,714 --> 00:10:38,761 Well, it probably won't ever be as useful as needlework. 115 00:10:43,266 --> 00:10:44,892 But you know... 116 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:51,023 book learning gives you the power... 117 00:10:51,608 --> 00:10:53,359 to think. 118 00:10:54,945 --> 00:11:00,199 However the world might change, if you have the power to think... 119 00:11:00,701 --> 00:11:03,077 you'll always survive somehow. 120 00:11:03,912 --> 00:11:07,456 That's true for boys and for girls. 121 00:11:09,710 --> 00:11:10,960 All right? 122 00:11:11,044 --> 00:11:12,044 Yes. 123 00:11:14,673 --> 00:11:17,299 Keep reading, then. 124 00:11:17,384 --> 00:11:21,095 Tseng Tzu said: 'Each day in three ways...' 125 00:11:22,389 --> 00:11:24,724 'I ask myself...' 126 00:11:24,808 --> 00:11:29,687 'if I have faithfully carried out what I undertook for another...' 127 00:11:30,105 --> 00:11:34,108 My mother's illness had left my father deep in debt. 128 00:11:34,484 --> 00:11:39,572 As Grandmother lost her wits, all the housework, the gathering of fuel... 129 00:11:39,740 --> 00:11:44,326 and the field work fell to him. 130 00:11:44,953 --> 00:11:48,914 Left with little time to attend to himself... 131 00:11:49,583 --> 00:11:53,502 he gradually became unkempt and grimy. 132 00:11:55,422 --> 00:12:02,094 As his daughter, I felt terrible about this. 133 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:05,806 Wipe off that dust! 134 00:12:07,768 --> 00:12:09,310 They're coming! 135 00:12:11,730 --> 00:12:13,522 His Lordship attends! 136 00:12:14,274 --> 00:12:16,275 Kawanami! Quick! 137 00:12:17,194 --> 00:12:18,778 'Provisions'. 138 00:12:19,571 --> 00:12:26,202 Vital stores of food for when the clan must fight, or the castle... 139 00:12:26,453 --> 00:12:28,537 is besieged. 140 00:12:28,622 --> 00:12:31,457 Next we have the Salt Storehouse... 141 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,883 Here you have your beans, green, soy and red... 142 00:12:41,510 --> 00:12:45,429 We pay particular attention to keeping them dry. 143 00:12:46,306 --> 00:12:49,975 Dried giant horse-radish, dried fiddleheads, miso paste... 144 00:12:50,060 --> 00:12:51,393 Kusaka! 145 00:12:55,899 --> 00:12:58,359 This is dried codfish... 146 00:12:58,443 --> 00:13:03,155 very important provisioning in times of war. 147 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:05,241 How much have we got? 148 00:13:06,576 --> 00:13:07,785 Iguchi... 149 00:13:12,833 --> 00:13:16,377 'Iguchi'? You may answer directly. 150 00:13:19,464 --> 00:13:24,009 By your leave. We have 760 strips... 151 00:13:24,094 --> 00:13:27,471 by weight approximately 120 Kan. 152 00:13:27,556 --> 00:13:29,640 How long does it keep? 153 00:13:30,183 --> 00:13:32,977 Between five and ten years. 154 00:13:33,061 --> 00:13:36,522 This here is the oldest we have. 155 00:13:36,606 --> 00:13:39,859 It was acquired six years ago. 156 00:13:40,694 --> 00:13:47,241 This dried cod from Kansaki is best. It holds its taste for ten years. 157 00:13:51,454 --> 00:13:55,374 That strange smell I noticed... is it you? 158 00:14:00,922 --> 00:14:05,801 Clan retainers must serve as examples to the common folk. 159 00:14:06,386 --> 00:14:08,345 Keep yourself clean. 160 00:14:09,764 --> 00:14:11,932 Yes, Milord! 161 00:14:13,393 --> 00:14:14,518 Carry on. 162 00:14:18,982 --> 00:14:20,190 Idiot! 163 00:14:31,077 --> 00:14:32,077 Sir, I... 164 00:14:32,162 --> 00:14:34,121 I'll speak to you later. 165 00:14:34,915 --> 00:14:35,915 But... 166 00:14:35,999 --> 00:14:37,082 Be quiet! 167 00:14:42,422 --> 00:14:43,422 Iguchi! 168 00:14:45,842 --> 00:14:48,636 You damn fool! 169 00:14:51,973 --> 00:14:55,935 The story spread throughout the castle. 170 00:14:56,603 --> 00:15:00,773 My father became a laughingstock. 171 00:15:08,865 --> 00:15:15,162 My Great-Uncle came from the main house in a foul humor. 172 00:15:20,835 --> 00:15:22,211 Hello! 173 00:15:22,963 --> 00:15:24,964 Hello! 174 00:15:26,549 --> 00:15:28,092 Seibei! 175 00:15:29,094 --> 00:15:30,844 It's Uncle... 176 00:15:32,597 --> 00:15:34,306 I'm in for it now. 177 00:15:35,475 --> 00:15:39,812 Is anybody here? What, are you all dead?! 178 00:15:39,896 --> 00:15:41,397 Coming! 179 00:15:42,857 --> 00:15:44,817 Kayano, make some tea. 180 00:15:44,901 --> 00:15:45,859 Who is it? 181 00:15:45,944 --> 00:15:46,902 Great-Uncle! 182 00:15:49,364 --> 00:15:51,699 This is pitiful! 183 00:15:52,826 --> 00:15:57,830 You appeared before His Lordship unbathed, smelling like dried cod. 184 00:15:57,914 --> 00:16:00,541 The unpleasant impression you created... 185 00:16:01,584 --> 00:16:03,961 shames the house of Iguchi. 186 00:16:04,546 --> 00:16:07,089 That was inexcusable. 187 00:16:07,549 --> 00:16:14,346 I went to Senior Retainer Terauchi and apologized for you. 188 00:16:14,597 --> 00:16:19,393 His Lordship is a generous man, so he did not find fault. 189 00:16:19,477 --> 00:16:22,563 Had that been his father, though... 190 00:16:23,148 --> 00:16:25,390 this would have meant hara-kiri! 191 00:16:25,442 --> 00:16:29,403 I never dreamed it would cause so much trouble. 192 00:16:29,863 --> 00:16:31,613 I beg your forgiveness. 193 00:16:32,991 --> 00:16:33,824 Kayano? 194 00:16:36,244 --> 00:16:37,536 How old are you now? 195 00:16:38,371 --> 00:16:40,205 I am ten years old. 196 00:16:41,041 --> 00:16:44,209 Are you working at your lessons? 197 00:16:44,544 --> 00:16:48,881 I'm learning needlework and Confucius. 198 00:16:48,965 --> 00:16:51,967 A girl has no need of the classics. 199 00:16:53,178 --> 00:16:55,262 All you need is to write women's script. 200 00:16:56,431 --> 00:16:58,724 Too much book learning and you'll never be a bride. 201 00:16:58,767 --> 00:17:00,684 You can go. 202 00:17:09,527 --> 00:17:14,907 I am here today on an important matter. 203 00:17:16,409 --> 00:17:18,410 A marriage arrangement. 204 00:17:19,120 --> 00:17:25,042 You need a hard-working wife to escape the misery you are in. 205 00:17:25,668 --> 00:17:30,089 A village-headman acquaintance has an unmarried daughter... 206 00:17:30,173 --> 00:17:32,508 whom he agrees to marry to you. 207 00:17:33,384 --> 00:17:39,098 He knows you are poor, have two young daughters and a senile mother. 208 00:17:39,724 --> 00:17:46,939 I'm sure you realize that you are in no position to demand beauty. 209 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:54,029 You need a healthy wife with big haunches to bear children. 210 00:17:54,114 --> 00:17:56,615 Her face is of no concern. 211 00:17:56,699 --> 00:18:00,410 So I'll proceed with this, if you don't mind. 212 00:18:01,913 --> 00:18:04,790 With all due respect, I must differ. 213 00:18:05,208 --> 00:18:06,458 How? 214 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:12,881 I am not nearly as miserable in my living as you may think. 215 00:18:13,508 --> 00:18:18,804 Of course, offending His Lordship by appearing unbathed before him... 216 00:18:19,097 --> 00:18:21,640 was wrong, and I vow never to repeat it. 217 00:18:24,310 --> 00:18:25,727 However... 218 00:18:26,479 --> 00:18:30,649 watching my daughters as they grow day by day is... 219 00:18:32,569 --> 00:18:33,986 how shall I put it? 220 00:18:35,822 --> 00:18:42,703 It's like watching crops ripen or flowers grow in a field. 221 00:18:44,747 --> 00:18:46,665 I enjoy it very much. 222 00:18:49,627 --> 00:18:52,504 I'm not sure if the lady of whom you speak... 223 00:18:53,089 --> 00:18:57,551 would understand that. 224 00:18:57,635 --> 00:19:00,762 Who would understand such foolishness?! 225 00:19:03,099 --> 00:19:05,726 You've always been like this... 226 00:19:06,477 --> 00:19:10,856 tormenting your poor father with this prattling of yours! 227 00:19:12,525 --> 00:19:17,529 What has your marriage got to do with crops in a field? 228 00:19:17,572 --> 00:19:20,407 Then I beg leave to speak more clearly. 229 00:19:21,534 --> 00:19:25,787 I ask that you not concern yourself with questions of my marriage. 230 00:19:27,665 --> 00:19:29,917 You defy the main branch of your family?! 231 00:19:31,169 --> 00:19:33,795 You are welcome here. 232 00:19:35,882 --> 00:19:38,383 Kinu... are you well? 233 00:19:38,426 --> 00:19:40,385 I am, thank you. 234 00:19:41,221 --> 00:19:46,558 May I ask of which household you come? 235 00:19:47,518 --> 00:19:48,810 I'm your damn brother! 236 00:19:49,145 --> 00:19:52,648 Take her away, Seibei. She's a nuisance. 237 00:19:52,732 --> 00:19:53,899 Mother... 238 00:19:54,567 --> 00:19:58,528 Most unseemly! What will the neighbors think? 239 00:19:59,405 --> 00:20:01,406 Tie her to a post somewhere! 240 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:08,956 'Expect no more help from me!'... 241 00:20:09,582 --> 00:20:15,420 shouted my great-uncle as he left in high dudgeon. 242 00:20:18,174 --> 00:20:20,217 Can you do that? 243 00:20:21,010 --> 00:20:22,719 Let me see. 244 00:20:27,976 --> 00:20:29,935 Here... twist it as you fit it in. 245 00:20:34,399 --> 00:20:35,899 Is Gran asleep? 246 00:20:35,984 --> 00:20:36,784 Yes. 247 00:20:38,403 --> 00:20:40,112 Good. 248 00:20:40,196 --> 00:20:41,363 Father... 249 00:20:42,740 --> 00:20:45,617 Gran was crying, you know. 250 00:20:46,077 --> 00:20:47,953 Uncle shouted at her. 251 00:20:50,248 --> 00:20:52,624 Poor Gran! 252 00:20:56,004 --> 00:20:58,839 Do you like Uncle? 253 00:21:01,092 --> 00:21:02,217 You don't? 254 00:21:06,639 --> 00:21:08,307 I hate him. 255 00:21:13,896 --> 00:21:20,110 He came to talk about a new wife for me, but I said no. 256 00:21:21,988 --> 00:21:25,157 I don't want to take any help from him. 257 00:21:26,617 --> 00:21:28,952 You'd think we were buying a cow! 258 00:21:29,037 --> 00:21:35,167 'All she needs is to be healthy'... that's rude to the lady as well. 259 00:21:39,339 --> 00:21:41,423 Are you two lonely... 260 00:21:44,093 --> 00:21:46,345 without a mother? 261 00:21:49,307 --> 00:21:52,184 I'm not lonely if you're here. 262 00:21:52,268 --> 00:21:53,310 Me, too. 263 00:21:58,858 --> 00:22:00,150 That's my girls. 264 00:22:11,037 --> 00:22:13,413 Do you want the toilet, Gran? 265 00:22:19,337 --> 00:22:20,462 How are you doing? 266 00:22:41,317 --> 00:22:42,526 Look! 267 00:22:42,902 --> 00:22:46,279 Butterbur buds! Get lots, all right? 268 00:22:52,036 --> 00:22:53,578 What's that? 269 00:22:55,915 --> 00:22:57,666 A child! 270 00:22:58,626 --> 00:23:02,379 The poor thing! He's nothing but bones! 271 00:23:02,964 --> 00:23:05,132 Where'd he come from? 272 00:23:05,425 --> 00:23:07,342 Matsukawa, maybe. 273 00:23:07,427 --> 00:23:09,886 Rise to Buddha! 274 00:23:11,139 --> 00:23:15,100 As children, we loved to go gathering herbs... 275 00:23:15,143 --> 00:23:18,270 by the river in early spring. 276 00:23:18,604 --> 00:23:21,940 But those were times of famine. 277 00:23:22,442 --> 00:23:27,571 The cold meltwater often brought the bodies of peasants... 278 00:23:27,989 --> 00:23:30,449 dead of starvation. 279 00:23:36,289 --> 00:23:37,789 Aim... 280 00:23:42,628 --> 00:23:43,920 Fire! 281 00:23:49,093 --> 00:23:52,387 All of you, watch me. 282 00:23:52,472 --> 00:23:54,139 Elbows up... 283 00:23:54,223 --> 00:23:58,059 Brace the right knee... 284 00:23:58,144 --> 00:24:01,271 Seibei! Sorry to keep you waiting. 285 00:24:04,901 --> 00:24:06,902 You went to Kyoto? 286 00:24:07,028 --> 00:24:11,072 Yes, with the Majordomo to talk to merchants there and in Osaka. 287 00:24:11,157 --> 00:24:12,824 What's Kyoto like? 288 00:24:14,327 --> 00:24:17,913 I had high hopes for it, but it was horrible. 289 00:24:17,997 --> 00:24:21,166 I've never seen the like of Miyako-oji Boulevard. 290 00:24:24,212 --> 00:24:29,090 Filthy masterless samurai from all over the country everywhere... 291 00:24:29,175 --> 00:24:32,719 cursing and swearing in dialects you can't understand. 292 00:24:32,803 --> 00:24:36,515 Then someone shouts 'Divine punishment!' and the swords come out. 293 00:24:39,977 --> 00:24:46,483 The Kamo River's full of headless corpses all swollen up... 294 00:24:47,193 --> 00:24:50,362 I thought it'd be geishas in Gion... 295 00:24:55,618 --> 00:24:56,785 Dear me! 296 00:24:59,705 --> 00:25:00,872 Prime! 297 00:25:02,708 --> 00:25:03,750 Aim! 298 00:25:05,044 --> 00:25:06,127 Fire! 299 00:25:07,713 --> 00:25:08,880 Misfire! 300 00:25:08,965 --> 00:25:11,341 Wait! What's wrong? 301 00:25:15,638 --> 00:25:16,846 Fool! 302 00:25:18,432 --> 00:25:20,475 I told you to wait! 303 00:25:21,227 --> 00:25:24,062 They're a bit late. 304 00:25:25,856 --> 00:25:30,735 The Choshu clan may have been beaten once, but they'll be back with Satsuma. 305 00:25:31,404 --> 00:25:36,032 They'll snuff out 250 years of Shoguns like the wind does a candle. 306 00:25:36,617 --> 00:25:38,326 What's our clan doing? 307 00:25:38,411 --> 00:25:40,787 Our leaders aren't thinking! 308 00:25:43,374 --> 00:25:46,501 How would you like to go to Kyoto? 309 00:25:49,130 --> 00:25:51,256 The Emperor's palace is short of guards. 310 00:25:51,340 --> 00:25:53,258 I'll recommend you. 311 00:25:53,301 --> 00:25:55,969 You'll see how things are. 312 00:25:56,512 --> 00:26:00,599 Someone like you shouldn't be stuck in a field here right now. 313 00:26:01,809 --> 00:26:06,062 I'm afraid you over-estimate me. 314 00:26:06,606 --> 00:26:08,940 The times are changing. 315 00:26:10,109 --> 00:26:16,114 When they do, I'll give up samurai status and be a farmer. 316 00:26:17,366 --> 00:26:19,826 That's what I'm suited for. 317 00:26:23,539 --> 00:26:25,999 You're a strange one. 318 00:26:27,835 --> 00:26:30,837 But you always were. 319 00:26:33,549 --> 00:26:35,342 No ambition at all. 320 00:26:35,551 --> 00:26:36,635 I'm better off without it. 321 00:26:36,802 --> 00:26:39,137 Oh, I nearly forgot... 322 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,269 My condolences on your bereavement. 323 00:26:48,564 --> 00:26:50,315 Burn a Joss stick for her. 324 00:26:50,399 --> 00:26:52,942 You didn't have to... 325 00:26:54,904 --> 00:26:57,989 I wanted to send my sister to the funeral in my place... 326 00:26:58,074 --> 00:27:01,785 but she was having some troubles of her own. 327 00:27:02,536 --> 00:27:03,662 I'm sorry. 328 00:27:03,704 --> 00:27:05,789 Miss Tomoe? What's wrong? 329 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,921 You know she married the son of Captain Koda... 330 00:27:13,506 --> 00:27:17,842 It turns out this Toyotaro is a mean drunk. 331 00:27:18,344 --> 00:27:20,845 If I'd known I'd never have agreed. 332 00:27:20,930 --> 00:27:22,847 A mean drunk? 333 00:27:23,099 --> 00:27:25,517 He'd hit her, kick her... 334 00:27:26,727 --> 00:27:30,271 She'd come running to my house to get away. 335 00:27:30,731 --> 00:27:34,234 I was worried one day he'd kill her... 336 00:27:34,318 --> 00:27:37,696 so I got the Castle to order them divorced. 337 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:39,364 Divorced? 338 00:27:39,448 --> 00:27:41,157 Just recently. 339 00:27:41,701 --> 00:27:46,371 So now Tomoe's back at my house. 340 00:27:47,623 --> 00:27:48,957 Really? 341 00:27:50,668 --> 00:27:57,882 And here I thought she was the wife of a fine 1200-koku samurai. 342 00:27:58,843 --> 00:28:00,719 I had no idea. 343 00:28:02,138 --> 00:28:07,308 I made a mistake. She's gone through hell because of me. 344 00:28:13,858 --> 00:28:16,526 Well done, one and all. 345 00:28:16,986 --> 00:28:20,238 That's it for today. 346 00:28:27,121 --> 00:28:28,204 Sakaguchi... 347 00:28:29,415 --> 00:28:32,751 Sakaguchi! Feel like dropping in at 'Hisago'? 348 00:28:33,586 --> 00:28:35,336 You want to see O-Kume! 349 00:28:35,421 --> 00:28:36,221 Quiet! 350 00:28:36,297 --> 00:28:38,423 You come too, Kawanami. 351 00:28:38,507 --> 00:28:39,841 Again? 352 00:28:39,925 --> 00:28:40,842 Damn right! 353 00:28:40,926 --> 00:28:42,594 I'll be going. 354 00:28:42,803 --> 00:28:43,887 Iguchi... 355 00:28:45,264 --> 00:28:48,349 You should come see the girls. Take your mind off things. 356 00:28:48,434 --> 00:28:50,143 I'm fine, thanks. 357 00:28:53,814 --> 00:28:54,939 Iguchi... 358 00:28:55,024 --> 00:28:56,024 Don't waste your breath. 359 00:29:09,914 --> 00:29:12,207 Look, Naota. The azaleas are out. 360 00:29:12,291 --> 00:29:13,291 Yup. 361 00:29:23,260 --> 00:29:26,137 Kayano, Ito, I'm home! 362 00:29:28,474 --> 00:29:30,099 No one's here... 363 00:29:38,901 --> 00:29:41,110 Welcome home. 364 00:29:45,157 --> 00:29:47,659 It's been a long time. 365 00:29:53,499 --> 00:29:58,461 Uh... perhaps there's... um... 366 00:30:00,005 --> 00:30:02,465 You were out when I came by... 367 00:30:07,930 --> 00:30:14,310 Have you forgotten me? I'm Iinuma's younger sister, Tomoe. 368 00:30:16,856 --> 00:30:20,191 Oh, Miss Tomoe! 369 00:30:21,402 --> 00:30:23,570 I didn't know you. 370 00:30:24,905 --> 00:30:30,702 I've just seen your brother today. He told me what had happened. 371 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:35,790 So you know all about it, then? 372 00:30:36,458 --> 00:30:37,876 Yes. 373 00:30:39,211 --> 00:30:42,922 Because of that I'm back living at his house. 374 00:30:43,007 --> 00:30:47,302 There's nothing for me to do, so they have me weaving. 375 00:30:47,386 --> 00:30:50,889 I came here to escape. 376 00:30:51,599 --> 00:30:53,391 You're very welcome. 377 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,061 Let's go inside. 378 00:30:58,814 --> 00:31:00,023 Your sock... 379 00:31:00,774 --> 00:31:02,567 Oh, yes... 380 00:31:13,329 --> 00:31:17,081 It seems your father had forgotten me! 381 00:31:17,124 --> 00:31:20,084 We always played together! 382 00:31:20,586 --> 00:31:22,295 Welcome home. 383 00:31:23,380 --> 00:31:29,427 Kayano, Ito, this is Miss Tomoe. We're, uh... 384 00:31:29,511 --> 00:31:33,348 Childhood friends. He always used to tease me. 385 00:31:33,432 --> 00:31:34,641 I did not! 386 00:31:35,142 --> 00:31:37,101 I got a present. 387 00:31:37,186 --> 00:31:38,603 Me, too. 388 00:31:39,229 --> 00:31:41,439 Aren't they pretty! 389 00:31:42,775 --> 00:31:45,151 Mother, I'm home. 390 00:31:45,235 --> 00:31:46,527 Welcome home. 391 00:31:46,612 --> 00:31:49,739 Do you know this lady? 392 00:31:49,823 --> 00:31:52,742 She's Miss Tomoe, the Iinuma girl. 393 00:31:52,826 --> 00:31:55,453 See? She remembered me. 394 00:31:55,537 --> 00:32:00,583 That's good. And of course you remember me, don't you? 395 00:32:02,378 --> 00:32:05,463 Of which household are you? 396 00:32:08,008 --> 00:32:10,176 I'm your son. 397 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,304 You are, are you? 398 00:32:13,389 --> 00:32:14,764 Hello. 399 00:32:15,557 --> 00:32:18,101 O-Tane, watch the hotpot. 400 00:32:20,229 --> 00:32:27,235 It was as if our house was brighter from the moment Miss Tomoe arrived. 401 00:32:29,571 --> 00:32:32,907 I've never forgotten. It was when I was five. 402 00:32:32,992 --> 00:32:37,120 I always wanted to do whatever the boys did. 403 00:32:37,663 --> 00:32:42,750 Once I was climbing a pine tree and a branch broke... 404 00:32:42,835 --> 00:32:44,752 and I got hurt. 405 00:32:44,837 --> 00:32:45,637 Really? 406 00:32:45,671 --> 00:32:50,383 Yes! Your father happened to be there that day... 407 00:32:50,467 --> 00:32:55,513 and he carried me piggy-back all the way to the doctor! 408 00:32:56,181 --> 00:33:00,893 I think he was 12 or 13. 409 00:33:02,104 --> 00:33:06,357 His back was this big! 410 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:12,363 Just like a grown-up's. He made me feel so safe... 411 00:33:12,448 --> 00:33:14,949 Do you remember, Seibei? 412 00:33:15,617 --> 00:33:19,370 I remember something like that... 413 00:33:19,788 --> 00:33:23,750 When I was nine my mother told me... 414 00:33:23,834 --> 00:33:28,671 I couldn't play with boys any more. 415 00:33:29,214 --> 00:33:31,841 I was so sad... 416 00:33:32,885 --> 00:33:36,054 Being a girl's no fun, Kayano. 417 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,600 "'Drip, drip drip"... 418 00:33:40,684 --> 00:33:43,978 'come our Chonbei's tears... 419 00:33:44,063 --> 00:33:46,064 "'Drip, drip, drip"... 420 00:33:46,106 --> 00:33:50,902 'Let's catch his falling tears... 421 00:33:50,986 --> 00:33:54,906 'and wipe them away... 422 00:33:54,948 --> 00:33:56,741 'Wipe them away... 423 00:33:56,825 --> 00:34:00,661 'Let's take his tear-soaked kimono... 424 00:34:00,746 --> 00:34:02,413 'and wash it clean... 425 00:34:02,498 --> 00:34:03,748 'Wash it clean... 426 00:34:04,333 --> 00:34:08,002 'Let's take the kimono we've washed... 427 00:34:08,087 --> 00:34:10,004 'and wring it out... 428 00:34:10,089 --> 00:34:11,839 'Wring it out... 429 00:34:11,924 --> 00:34:16,511 'Let's take the kimono we've wrung out... 430 00:34:16,595 --> 00:34:18,179 'and hang it to dry... 431 00:34:18,263 --> 00:34:20,014 'Hang it to dry...' 432 00:34:26,188 --> 00:34:29,774 You haven't changed at all, have you. 433 00:34:31,652 --> 00:34:36,447 It's as if I'm a completely different person. 434 00:34:38,283 --> 00:34:40,326 That's not true. 435 00:34:40,994 --> 00:34:45,373 You still smile just like you used to. 436 00:34:48,168 --> 00:34:53,881 You don't have to console me. I know I've changed. 437 00:34:56,969 --> 00:35:01,222 People told me how radiant a bride you were... 438 00:35:01,807 --> 00:35:03,808 when you went to the Koda house. 439 00:35:04,768 --> 00:35:06,978 I don't want to remember. 440 00:35:32,671 --> 00:35:36,799 It's very late. I'll leave you here. 441 00:35:38,844 --> 00:35:42,221 Say hello to your brother. 442 00:35:44,057 --> 00:35:46,017 Your beard's growing out... 443 00:35:47,811 --> 00:35:49,187 It's so soft! 444 00:35:57,070 --> 00:35:59,071 That man's here! 445 00:36:02,659 --> 00:36:03,784 My husband... 446 00:36:04,203 --> 00:36:09,457 My ex-husband... I'd know that drunken voice anywhere. 447 00:36:09,541 --> 00:36:10,458 I'm going! 448 00:36:11,710 --> 00:36:13,044 Your master's leaving. 449 00:36:13,212 --> 00:36:15,546 Hands off! I'm not drunk! 450 00:36:15,631 --> 00:36:17,632 My sandals! 451 00:36:18,383 --> 00:36:22,303 Iinuma! Where's Tomoe gone? 452 00:36:22,387 --> 00:36:25,056 I told you, she's at her aunt's. 453 00:36:25,140 --> 00:36:26,724 You're lying! 454 00:36:26,808 --> 00:36:30,728 Please! Keep your voice down! There are elderly people here! 455 00:36:30,771 --> 00:36:32,063 To hell with her. 456 00:36:32,522 --> 00:36:34,148 Listen, Iinuma... 457 00:36:34,775 --> 00:36:39,111 If I'm not good enough for Tomoe, she's welcome to leave. 458 00:36:39,613 --> 00:36:41,280 But Iinuma... 459 00:36:41,740 --> 00:36:44,242 I've got a bone to pick with you. 460 00:36:44,910 --> 00:36:49,497 You went to His Lordship and got him to divorce us. 461 00:36:49,581 --> 00:36:53,501 Squire Koda, I've told you time and time again... 462 00:36:54,044 --> 00:36:55,086 Shut up! 463 00:36:56,171 --> 00:37:01,717 You made me a joke in front of the whole castle! 464 00:37:02,302 --> 00:37:04,428 I demand satisfaction! 465 00:37:04,513 --> 00:37:05,237 Squire Koda! 466 00:37:05,322 --> 00:37:07,765 My sword! 467 00:37:07,849 --> 00:37:09,475 Stop this, will you?! 468 00:37:11,603 --> 00:37:12,770 Tomoe... 469 00:37:14,147 --> 00:37:18,276 Where've you been till this hour of the night? 470 00:37:18,652 --> 00:37:22,113 Where I go is no one's business but mine. 471 00:37:22,197 --> 00:37:25,449 And I'll say this, too. 472 00:37:25,534 --> 00:37:30,746 I am not your wife now. It's 'Miss Tomoe' to you. 473 00:37:36,545 --> 00:37:39,213 Tomoe! Get inside! 474 00:37:42,217 --> 00:37:44,093 Perhaps that's enough? 475 00:37:44,970 --> 00:37:46,345 Who are you?! 476 00:37:53,228 --> 00:37:58,274 I am Seibei Iguchi, friend to Iinuma. 477 00:37:58,942 --> 00:38:02,820 Perhaps I could accept your challenge in his name? 478 00:38:03,238 --> 00:38:06,032 But here we are in the town. 479 00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:09,660 And you are drunk. 480 00:38:11,872 --> 00:38:16,667 Let's settle this another time, when the alcohol has worn off. 481 00:38:23,383 --> 00:38:27,845 If you've put yourself forward this way... 482 00:38:28,513 --> 00:38:30,765 you must know how to fight. 483 00:38:31,183 --> 00:38:33,642 I make no such claim. 484 00:38:34,394 --> 00:38:38,481 Fine. We fight tomorrow. 485 00:38:40,108 --> 00:38:41,359 Tomorrow? 486 00:38:41,568 --> 00:38:49,116 By the river behind Hannyaji Temple, at the 8th hour? 487 00:38:50,702 --> 00:38:52,078 Done. 488 00:38:53,038 --> 00:38:56,582 Behind Hannyaji, 8th hour. 489 00:38:58,794 --> 00:39:00,044 See you. 490 00:39:12,891 --> 00:39:15,976 Seibei, he's serious! 491 00:39:16,061 --> 00:39:18,104 Are you? 492 00:39:18,897 --> 00:39:21,232 I had no choice. 493 00:39:21,316 --> 00:39:23,025 He's good with a sword. 494 00:39:24,277 --> 00:39:25,903 It'll work out. 495 00:39:26,988 --> 00:39:29,407 I'll say good night. 496 00:39:29,491 --> 00:39:33,494 Don't tell Tomoe about this. It would only worry her. 497 00:39:37,124 --> 00:39:38,249 Wait! 498 00:39:41,378 --> 00:39:45,673 What if you kill him? The Clan forbids dueling. 499 00:39:47,259 --> 00:39:49,051 I'll think of something. 500 00:39:50,053 --> 00:39:51,971 Good night. 501 00:40:09,739 --> 00:40:10,948 Naota... 502 00:40:49,279 --> 00:40:51,030 We're going. 503 00:40:53,992 --> 00:40:55,284 Ito! 504 00:41:05,420 --> 00:41:08,923 Yu Tzu said: 'Harmony is the greatest beneficence of the rites. 505 00:41:09,007 --> 00:41:13,260 'Harmony unregulated by rite is not harmony at all.' 506 00:41:13,345 --> 00:41:14,845 Good morning. 507 00:41:22,521 --> 00:41:24,355 Sit down! 508 00:41:35,825 --> 00:41:37,034 I'm leaving. 509 00:42:28,962 --> 00:42:33,007 This is no good. I'm slow. 510 00:43:05,373 --> 00:43:07,666 You think you can take me? 511 00:43:07,751 --> 00:43:09,293 Damn right! 512 00:43:09,377 --> 00:43:12,296 Then get ready. 513 00:43:16,176 --> 00:43:17,718 He's afraid! 514 00:43:22,974 --> 00:43:24,099 Hold it! 515 00:43:26,311 --> 00:43:29,647 I said last night I'd take your place! 516 00:43:29,689 --> 00:43:31,065 I should do this. 517 00:43:31,149 --> 00:43:34,401 You're no match for him. Go over there and watch. 518 00:43:37,530 --> 00:43:41,867 I'm sorry I'm late, Squire Koda. I will be your opponent. 519 00:43:42,994 --> 00:43:44,828 What's that stick? 520 00:43:45,330 --> 00:43:49,500 My school of swordfighting uses this for practice. 521 00:43:50,543 --> 00:43:54,338 Do you mock me? Draw your sword! 522 00:43:54,923 --> 00:43:59,093 A sword might kill. This stick will not. 523 00:43:59,511 --> 00:44:02,179 It will break bones at worst. 524 00:44:03,973 --> 00:44:09,228 I won't take this from a samurai of your rank! I'll cut you down! 525 00:44:36,423 --> 00:44:38,716 Watch for the draw-and-slash! 526 00:44:43,805 --> 00:44:45,973 You can still apologize. 527 00:44:47,851 --> 00:44:50,394 The apology is yours to make. 528 00:45:36,441 --> 00:45:39,109 With a real sword, you'd be dead. 529 00:45:53,875 --> 00:45:55,834 Do you apologize? 530 00:45:57,337 --> 00:46:01,006 Or do you continue? 531 00:46:24,489 --> 00:46:28,367 Splash some water on him. That'll bring him to. 532 00:46:28,451 --> 00:46:30,744 Come on, Iinuma. 533 00:46:36,709 --> 00:46:38,168 You're all right? 534 00:46:40,588 --> 00:46:43,507 Don't tell Miss Tomoe about this. 535 00:46:43,591 --> 00:46:47,261 Or anyone else, either. 536 00:46:47,345 --> 00:46:50,013 Those men will talk. 537 00:46:50,098 --> 00:46:53,392 No. A whipped dog doesn't bark. 538 00:47:17,292 --> 00:47:20,335 Is that soy sauce? Over here. 539 00:47:54,245 --> 00:47:59,499 Excuse me for interrupting. I am Zenemon Yogo, Master of the Watch. 540 00:47:59,584 --> 00:48:01,001 I know that. 541 00:48:01,836 --> 00:48:09,912 Are you the 'Twilight Seibei' who thrashed Toyotaro Koda... 542 00:48:12,096 --> 00:48:14,264 I didn't really 'thrash' him. 543 00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:21,939 He asked for a match, and my sword caught him on the head. 544 00:48:22,774 --> 00:48:28,153 Koda is a drinking companion of mine. 545 00:48:28,821 --> 00:48:30,530 The other day... 546 00:48:31,074 --> 00:48:37,746 he came crying to me, asking if I would take revenge for him. 547 00:48:42,043 --> 00:48:44,544 That's the kind of man he is. 548 00:48:45,797 --> 00:48:50,842 But it seems you can fight. What school are you? 549 00:48:52,220 --> 00:48:57,224 Many years ago I trained under Toda-sensei. 550 00:48:57,308 --> 00:49:01,645 So you're a disciple of Jinsai Toda? 551 00:49:02,438 --> 00:49:06,108 I merely attended his dojo. 552 00:49:08,695 --> 00:49:12,239 Perhaps we could try a match one day. 553 00:49:12,323 --> 00:49:18,829 I'd be no match for you, I'm afraid. If you'll excuse me... 554 00:49:33,428 --> 00:49:39,349 I wish I wasn't getting old. I can't read once the sun sets. 555 00:49:40,309 --> 00:49:43,770 First your teeth go, then it's your eyes. 556 00:49:43,855 --> 00:49:46,606 And how's number three? 557 00:49:46,691 --> 00:49:48,859 That went long ago! 558 00:49:53,031 --> 00:49:56,450 That's it for today, everyone. 559 00:50:12,383 --> 00:50:14,384 I'll be going. 560 00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:19,097 Excuse me. 561 00:50:24,395 --> 00:50:26,813 Sir Twilight's gone? 562 00:50:27,482 --> 00:50:29,733 Didn't you hear? 563 00:50:32,028 --> 00:50:37,449 The other day 'Sir Twilight' fought the son of Captain Koda. 564 00:50:37,533 --> 00:50:40,410 A fight? And what happened? 565 00:50:40,495 --> 00:50:42,662 Wood against steel. 566 00:50:42,747 --> 00:50:46,583 Sir Twilight went bang! Knocked him senseless. 567 00:50:46,834 --> 00:50:47,876 He did? 568 00:50:48,586 --> 00:50:51,088 I always thought he was strange. 569 00:50:51,380 --> 00:50:54,716 I never thought he was a fighter, though. 570 00:50:55,802 --> 00:50:59,387 Maybe we shouldn't be calling him 'Sir Twilight'. 571 00:51:00,056 --> 00:51:01,264 You think he knows? 572 00:51:01,766 --> 00:51:03,850 Sure he does. 573 00:51:19,117 --> 00:51:21,326 Fumi! It's raining! 574 00:51:30,128 --> 00:51:33,130 It's raining! Is the laundry in? 575 00:51:33,214 --> 00:51:34,214 Yes! 576 00:51:43,683 --> 00:51:45,058 Welcome home. 577 00:51:45,309 --> 00:51:49,688 Miss Tomoe was here. She left you this letter. 578 00:51:52,984 --> 00:51:56,778 She's got even nicer writing than the schoolmaster. 579 00:51:59,866 --> 00:52:02,659 Let me! 580 00:52:03,703 --> 00:52:04,703 No! 581 00:52:04,787 --> 00:52:10,250 'I have finally learned what happened from my elder brother. 582 00:52:11,127 --> 00:52:15,964 'I must apologize for all the trouble... 583 00:52:16,424 --> 00:52:18,466 'I have caused you. 584 00:52:19,093 --> 00:52:23,263 'I am, however, delighted. 585 00:52:26,225 --> 00:52:31,104 'I very much want to see you and thank you in person. 586 00:52:31,981 --> 00:52:36,902 'Today I intruded upon you and, with your daughters... 587 00:52:36,986 --> 00:52:40,614 'cleaned your house and did your laundry. 588 00:52:41,115 --> 00:52:47,621 'Please do not scold your daughters for allowing me in. 589 00:52:48,247 --> 00:52:53,418 'I would like in the future to be of what use I can. 590 00:52:54,045 --> 00:52:57,422 'Written in haste. 591 00:52:57,924 --> 00:53:01,343 'To: Seibei Iguchi, Esq. From: Tomoe.' 592 00:53:08,976 --> 00:53:14,356 Tomoe started coming every second day or so. 593 00:53:14,732 --> 00:53:19,819 The two of us looked forward to coming home from school. 594 00:53:20,404 --> 00:53:22,864 We're back! 595 00:53:22,949 --> 00:53:26,243 Hello! 596 00:53:26,327 --> 00:53:30,413 You know what the teacher did today? He farted out loud! 597 00:53:30,498 --> 00:53:31,298 Like this? 598 00:53:32,416 --> 00:53:33,541 That's right. 599 00:53:34,377 --> 00:53:36,086 O-Tane, take that end. 600 00:53:37,463 --> 00:53:38,755 Now you, Kayano... 601 00:53:38,839 --> 00:53:42,759 She cleaned with us, did laundry with us... 602 00:53:43,386 --> 00:53:46,471 and taught us to cook. 603 00:53:51,102 --> 00:53:55,146 On rainy days we'd practice calligraphy and sewing. 604 00:53:55,690 --> 00:53:59,359 And she'd tell us all kinds of stories, the like of which... 605 00:53:59,443 --> 00:54:02,821 we'd never heard before. 606 00:54:03,281 --> 00:54:04,281 Finished. 607 00:54:08,494 --> 00:54:10,996 Bring this line over. 608 00:54:11,122 --> 00:54:12,163 Finished! 609 00:54:12,790 --> 00:54:15,125 That's good, Ito! 610 00:54:15,835 --> 00:54:19,129 Hey! Stop it! 611 00:54:19,213 --> 00:54:23,717 Ito! Write on your own paper, all right? 612 00:54:23,801 --> 00:54:25,051 No! 613 00:54:36,314 --> 00:54:38,648 Doesn't that look nice! 614 00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,401 So does yours, Kayano. 615 00:54:41,485 --> 00:54:44,779 How much fun it was to go off to a festival in kimonos... 616 00:54:45,656 --> 00:54:48,158 she had made us. 617 00:55:05,843 --> 00:55:08,678 Shoo! Go away! 618 00:56:04,193 --> 00:56:10,657 Samurai then were strictly forbidden to attend the festivals... 619 00:56:10,741 --> 00:56:13,410 of the peasants and townsfolk... 620 00:56:13,911 --> 00:56:17,497 but Tomoe cared not a whit. 621 00:56:18,374 --> 00:56:23,420 I remember well what she said: 622 00:56:24,171 --> 00:56:28,508 It was because of the peasants that we lived as samurai. 623 00:57:00,499 --> 00:57:04,169 Why are you catching them all? We're using the same bait! 624 00:57:04,837 --> 00:57:10,592 You're trying too hard. The fish sense it. 625 00:57:11,552 --> 00:57:16,097 Your shoulders are too stiff. It's like swordfighting. 626 00:57:16,182 --> 00:57:18,266 Aw, stop lecturing! 627 00:57:19,226 --> 00:57:21,269 Show me your rod. 628 00:57:25,357 --> 00:57:28,276 This hook's too big! 629 00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:35,000 Seibei... 630 00:57:36,577 --> 00:57:38,328 I want to talk to you. 631 00:57:39,663 --> 00:57:43,333 It's about Tomoe. 632 00:57:44,668 --> 00:57:47,629 She's had a few proposals. 633 00:57:49,298 --> 00:57:55,512 She's beautiful and talented. There's not many like her in our clan. 634 00:57:57,139 --> 00:57:58,765 Any good ones? 635 00:57:59,475 --> 00:58:02,685 She won't say yes, and I can't pressure her. 636 00:58:03,187 --> 00:58:08,483 I asked her, half in jest, if she'd like to marry you. 637 00:58:08,859 --> 00:58:10,193 You what?! 638 00:58:11,570 --> 00:58:15,949 We may be old friends, but that isn't funny! 639 00:58:16,033 --> 00:58:18,785 She didn't take it as a joke. 640 00:58:20,663 --> 00:58:24,040 She said she wouldn't mind... 641 00:58:24,416 --> 00:58:26,584 and turned all red. 642 00:58:31,715 --> 00:58:36,886 That's enough! You're both making fun of me! 643 00:58:39,306 --> 00:58:41,766 You dolt! 644 00:58:42,893 --> 00:58:45,019 She was serious. 645 00:58:45,104 --> 00:58:45,904 Stop it. 646 00:58:50,234 --> 00:58:51,776 Listen... 647 00:58:53,404 --> 00:58:59,909 I've already put her through hell marrying her to Koda. 648 00:59:02,413 --> 00:59:07,500 If it's all right with you, I'd like to make that up to her. 649 00:59:09,712 --> 00:59:11,629 It's a bit sudden... 650 00:59:20,431 --> 00:59:25,268 I don't need an answer now, but I will within two or three days. 651 00:59:27,646 --> 00:59:30,231 I might have to go to Edo. 652 00:59:31,191 --> 00:59:36,946 You've been really busy lately. What's going on? 653 00:59:39,199 --> 00:59:41,117 You probably haven't heard. 654 00:59:42,786 --> 00:59:44,621 His Lordship's dead. 655 00:59:45,581 --> 00:59:47,915 A month ago. 656 00:59:48,459 --> 00:59:49,834 He is? 657 00:59:51,462 --> 00:59:54,631 Why have they kept that from us? 658 00:59:55,007 --> 00:59:58,676 They're not agreed on who's going to succeed him. 659 01:00:01,597 --> 01:00:04,182 The Castle Warden, Lord Hori, has asked the Shogun... 660 01:00:04,266 --> 01:00:09,312 for permission to adopt His Lordship's third boy, Tadaatsu... 661 01:00:09,980 --> 01:00:12,315 and seize control himself. 662 01:00:13,025 --> 01:00:18,821 If that happens the clan will split, and blood will wash away blood. 663 01:00:19,823 --> 01:00:23,951 I might not come through this unscathed myself. 664 01:00:26,622 --> 01:00:31,876 So if you could give me an answer before I leave for Edo... 665 01:00:35,756 --> 01:00:36,923 All right. 666 01:00:39,343 --> 01:00:40,677 I'll answer you. 667 01:00:44,348 --> 01:00:49,268 I'm very grateful to Tomoe for all she's done for my daughters... 668 01:00:51,105 --> 01:00:57,527 all the cooking and sewing and everything else. 669 01:00:59,488 --> 01:01:02,240 It's like a dream come true. 670 01:01:04,952 --> 01:01:05,952 However... 671 01:01:07,871 --> 01:01:13,876 having her come to my house as my wife is something else again. 672 01:01:18,090 --> 01:01:22,885 She's a daughter of the Iinumas, a 400-koku family. 673 01:01:24,012 --> 01:01:28,891 She doesn't know what life is like for a 50-koku petty samurai. 674 01:01:30,561 --> 01:01:34,731 Are you sure you're not under-estimating her? 675 01:01:35,315 --> 01:01:38,109 She's very much her own woman. 676 01:01:38,819 --> 01:01:40,403 It'd be fine at the start. 677 01:01:41,113 --> 01:01:48,911 But when it sunk in that 50-koku would be her life forever... 678 01:01:50,372 --> 01:01:52,039 she'd be sorry. 679 01:01:54,543 --> 01:01:56,377 My late wife was. 680 01:01:59,923 --> 01:02:02,508 Hers was a 150-koku family. 681 01:02:03,427 --> 01:02:07,054 She never got used to the fall in status. 682 01:02:09,057 --> 01:02:15,646 'Rise in the world, ' she told me, 'or my family will grieve.' 683 01:02:17,524 --> 01:02:21,486 She said that all the time after she got sick. 684 01:02:23,739 --> 01:02:29,118 I don't want to put Tomoe through that torment. 685 01:02:33,749 --> 01:02:36,918 Tomoe's not 15 or 16. 686 01:02:38,253 --> 01:02:42,840 I'm sure she'd thought about what she said. 687 01:02:43,217 --> 01:02:44,550 No more. 688 01:02:46,970 --> 01:02:48,721 Let's forget this. 689 01:02:53,852 --> 01:02:55,061 Let's try up there. 690 01:02:58,148 --> 01:02:59,440 It's a girl! 691 01:02:59,525 --> 01:03:00,608 Push her back out. 692 01:03:07,157 --> 01:03:08,825 What a stink! 693 01:03:15,624 --> 01:03:19,585 Rise to Lord Buddha. 694 01:03:21,129 --> 01:03:25,132 Eat your fill in heaven! 695 01:03:25,217 --> 01:03:26,717 Let's call it a day. 696 01:03:35,561 --> 01:03:40,648 From that day forward, Miss Tomoe stopped coming... 697 01:03:40,732 --> 01:03:42,692 to our house. 698 01:03:44,528 --> 01:03:46,946 Stand aside! 699 01:03:47,072 --> 01:03:49,866 Turning left! 700 01:04:00,544 --> 01:04:03,546 The Warden has returned! 701 01:04:23,442 --> 01:04:25,109 Go! 702 01:04:35,787 --> 01:04:36,787 What's that?! 703 01:04:36,872 --> 01:04:39,707 It's the alarm! 704 01:04:47,883 --> 01:04:50,134 Stop what you're doing and listen. 705 01:04:51,428 --> 01:04:55,765 I have important news from Lord Hori, Castle Warden... 706 01:04:55,849 --> 01:04:58,267 who returned this morning from Edo. 707 01:04:59,478 --> 01:05:05,399 The 12th head of the Unasaka Clan, Lord Tadatomo, died of measles... 708 01:05:05,776 --> 01:05:07,318 at the beginning of this month. 709 01:05:07,819 --> 01:05:10,237 He was 32 years old. 710 01:05:13,700 --> 01:05:19,372 He was a good and wise ruler, intelligent and tolerant... 711 01:05:19,456 --> 01:05:21,165 a true hero. 712 01:05:22,876 --> 01:05:28,130 Only last spring we had the honor of meeting him... 713 01:05:28,215 --> 01:05:30,967 and having him speak to us. 714 01:05:31,843 --> 01:05:36,055 Iguchi, you haven't forgotten that, I'm sure. 715 01:05:39,017 --> 01:05:42,645 What a fine and gentle man he was! 716 01:05:45,774 --> 01:05:48,943 Senior retainers will remain in the castle. 717 01:05:49,653 --> 01:05:55,032 The rest of you are to leave and pray for the repose of His Lordship's soul. 718 01:06:08,213 --> 01:06:10,339 This could mean open war! 719 01:06:11,133 --> 01:06:13,467 I doubt that... 720 01:06:14,011 --> 01:06:19,932 but Lord Hori's sure to go after His Lordships reformers. 721 01:06:20,976 --> 01:06:22,351 'Dispositions'? 722 01:06:22,394 --> 01:06:23,477 Yes. 723 01:06:24,354 --> 01:06:26,856 Which side is our Commissioner on? 724 01:06:26,940 --> 01:06:29,942 The reformers, or the Hori faction? 725 01:06:30,318 --> 01:06:34,280 He'll be with the mainstream. 726 01:06:34,489 --> 01:06:37,825 Just like me. 727 01:06:42,622 --> 01:06:48,210 While there were fearsome rumors that the Castle was preparing for war... 728 01:06:48,879 --> 01:06:52,757 it didn't seem to involve petty samurai like my father. 729 01:07:28,877 --> 01:07:30,127 All right? 730 01:07:32,255 --> 01:07:38,052 We wanted to ask Father why Miss Tomoe no longer came... 731 01:07:38,136 --> 01:07:44,558 but for some reason we couldn't. 732 01:07:45,811 --> 01:07:49,980 This was because even in our children's hearts... 733 01:07:50,982 --> 01:07:53,943 we knew something had happened between them. 734 01:07:58,782 --> 01:08:01,617 Squire Iguchi! 735 01:08:04,454 --> 01:08:09,792 I'm sorry you've come for nothing. My husband isn't back from Edo. 736 01:08:10,418 --> 01:08:13,295 I expect him in a day or two. 737 01:08:16,007 --> 01:08:20,344 Has he written anything about what's happening in Edo? 738 01:08:20,971 --> 01:08:22,054 No. 739 01:08:22,597 --> 01:08:24,473 There was a letter yesterday... 740 01:08:24,558 --> 01:08:31,772 but all he talked about was what he wants to eat when he gets home. 741 01:08:32,190 --> 01:08:33,774 That's good. 742 01:08:35,110 --> 01:08:40,656 I'm sure you know they're handing down dispositions. 743 01:08:41,158 --> 01:08:44,994 Some people have even been ordered to commit suicide. 744 01:08:45,078 --> 01:08:50,457 I was worried about what might have happened to Iinuma. 745 01:08:50,834 --> 01:08:54,670 I'm happy to hear he's all right. 746 01:08:55,714 --> 01:08:58,924 Give him my regards when he gets home. 747 01:08:59,342 --> 01:09:02,803 You came just for that? 748 01:09:03,221 --> 01:09:04,096 Yes. 749 01:09:04,514 --> 01:09:06,682 Good day. 750 01:09:10,854 --> 01:09:13,189 It was very kind of you. 751 01:09:23,241 --> 01:09:24,325 Carry on. 752 01:09:26,661 --> 01:09:28,287 Where's Squire Iguchi? 753 01:09:28,371 --> 01:09:31,332 He went away. 754 01:09:33,126 --> 01:09:34,919 Where are you going? 755 01:09:35,003 --> 01:09:38,547 Squire Iguchi may still be close by. 756 01:09:38,632 --> 01:09:41,217 Why do you want to see him? 757 01:09:42,135 --> 01:09:45,554 No reason in particular. 758 01:09:45,931 --> 01:09:49,642 I haven't seen him for a while. I'd like to say hello. 759 01:09:49,726 --> 01:09:50,559 Wait! 760 01:09:57,651 --> 01:09:59,068 Tomoe... 761 01:09:59,611 --> 01:10:03,739 it is unseemly for a young woman to be seen talking... 762 01:10:04,074 --> 01:10:06,367 with some samurai on the street. 763 01:10:06,910 --> 01:10:11,872 And you are a returned bride with a proposal being discussed. 764 01:10:12,832 --> 01:10:18,087 You shouldn't be doing that in broad daylight with people around. 765 01:10:19,130 --> 01:10:23,425 I've been meaning to tell you that for a long time now. 766 01:10:25,262 --> 01:10:30,516 What's wrong with a girl talking to a samurai? 767 01:10:31,601 --> 01:10:35,271 Are you questioning your elder brother's wife? 768 01:10:35,313 --> 01:10:36,939 Shouldn't I? 769 01:10:37,440 --> 01:10:38,649 You should not. 770 01:10:39,943 --> 01:10:44,363 A young women does not question her elders. 771 01:11:05,135 --> 01:11:10,097 With 60 from last month, that comes to 550 Mon. 772 01:11:10,890 --> 01:11:13,642 Could I have a receipt? 773 01:11:18,398 --> 01:11:23,444 You know the bath fee went up to seven Mon last month. 774 01:11:23,987 --> 01:11:26,071 Prices are going up everywhere. 775 01:11:26,156 --> 01:11:30,492 Could you pay more for these cages? 776 01:11:32,829 --> 01:11:35,831 With things as unsettled as they are... 777 01:11:36,333 --> 01:11:39,251 no one's buying insect cages. 778 01:11:39,336 --> 01:11:43,339 Could you ask your boss for me? 779 01:11:43,423 --> 01:11:47,051 Well, I'll ask. 780 01:11:47,135 --> 01:11:50,262 I take this work as seriously as my duties. 781 01:11:50,347 --> 01:11:51,930 I understand that. 782 01:11:52,015 --> 01:11:54,183 If you'll excuse me. 783 01:11:58,063 --> 01:11:59,021 Come on. 784 01:12:18,917 --> 01:12:20,959 We're not thieves. 785 01:12:21,378 --> 01:12:26,924 We're just picking up some insect cages from Squire Iguchi. 786 01:12:27,675 --> 01:12:31,553 Is he doing piece-work? 787 01:12:44,776 --> 01:12:45,901 Hello! 788 01:12:46,778 --> 01:12:47,903 Hello! 789 01:12:48,321 --> 01:12:51,740 Who is it? 790 01:12:51,908 --> 01:12:54,576 Commissioner Kusaka. 791 01:13:02,043 --> 01:13:04,336 It's very late, I know. 792 01:13:04,421 --> 01:13:08,715 I'd like you to accompany me to Lord Hori's quarters. 793 01:13:09,259 --> 01:13:11,885 Yes, sir. 794 01:13:13,930 --> 01:13:17,641 They said you don't need full formal dress. 795 01:13:18,184 --> 01:13:19,643 Just a hakama skirt. 796 01:13:36,327 --> 01:13:40,456 So you're Iguchi's girl? How old are you? 797 01:13:41,499 --> 01:13:42,583 Five. 798 01:13:44,627 --> 01:13:46,462 You're a sweetheart. 799 01:13:51,509 --> 01:13:53,135 I'm ready. 800 01:14:02,729 --> 01:14:05,898 Kayano... you all get to bed. 801 01:14:11,237 --> 01:14:12,362 Let's sleep. 802 01:14:32,759 --> 01:14:35,260 Seibei Iguchi, of the Castle Stores... 803 01:14:35,345 --> 01:14:37,179 That'll do. 804 01:14:38,139 --> 01:14:40,933 Iguchi, come over here. 805 01:14:52,612 --> 01:14:58,325 We called you here this late because an awkward situation has arisen. 806 01:14:59,452 --> 01:15:03,372 You know there was a revolt among our retainers in Edo? 807 01:15:04,415 --> 01:15:05,415 Yes, sir. 808 01:15:07,126 --> 01:15:10,212 Fortunately no word of this reached the Shogun. 809 01:15:10,505 --> 01:15:15,217 His Lordship ordered Shima Hasegawa and his faction to commit suicide. 810 01:15:15,718 --> 01:15:22,224 But one of Lord Hasegawa's men, Zenemon Yogo, Master of the Watch... 811 01:15:23,309 --> 01:15:30,816 says he was merely following the orders of his superior... 812 01:15:30,900 --> 01:15:34,570 asks why he should be punished, and refuses to commit suicide. 813 01:15:34,612 --> 01:15:39,616 'If you want me dead, come and kill me, ' he says! 814 01:15:40,201 --> 01:15:45,163 And with these disgraceful words, has barricaded himself in his house. 815 01:15:47,208 --> 01:15:53,005 This evening we sent our Master of Foot, Genba Hattori, against him. 816 01:15:53,089 --> 01:15:57,050 Zenemon Yogo! I come at the order of the clan! 817 01:16:01,639 --> 01:16:04,808 But he died himself. 818 01:16:15,153 --> 01:16:18,572 He's a 'one-sword' fighter. 819 01:16:18,656 --> 01:16:22,034 No one in the clan is his match. 820 01:16:23,286 --> 01:16:26,079 We were talking about who to send against him... 821 01:16:26,664 --> 01:16:30,417 and your name came up. 822 01:16:32,045 --> 01:16:34,921 Iguchi, raise your head. 823 01:16:38,926 --> 01:16:42,095 You're a 'short-sword' fighter of the Toda school? 824 01:16:44,140 --> 01:16:47,267 It's been years since Toda-sensei taught me. 825 01:16:47,352 --> 01:16:51,813 I merely attended his dojo. 826 01:16:52,357 --> 01:16:55,525 We don't have time for modesty. 827 01:16:55,985 --> 01:17:01,490 We've learned that you were an instructor at his dojo. 828 01:17:01,574 --> 01:17:08,246 He must be beaten inside his house. The short sword will help there. 829 01:17:08,623 --> 01:17:12,876 That is another reason we have chosen you. 830 01:17:13,503 --> 01:17:19,216 Kill Zenemon Yogo by twilight tomorrow. 831 01:17:19,842 --> 01:17:23,970 That is an order from the clan's Senior Retainer. 832 01:17:29,435 --> 01:17:32,729 Kusaka... what's this man's stipend? 833 01:17:33,189 --> 01:17:34,815 50 koku. 834 01:17:35,108 --> 01:17:38,902 20 koku bespoken, for a net of 30. 835 01:17:38,986 --> 01:17:44,157 That must be hard, with two young daughters and an aged mother. 836 01:17:45,243 --> 01:17:48,870 Bring us the head of Zenemon Yogo... 837 01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:51,081 and life will be easier. 838 01:17:51,165 --> 01:17:54,167 Do you accept? 839 01:17:58,047 --> 01:17:59,464 Answer him. 840 01:18:01,050 --> 01:18:02,843 This is an honor. 841 01:18:05,513 --> 01:18:06,722 You shut up! 842 01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:08,640 Well? 843 01:18:13,396 --> 01:18:15,605 By your leave... 844 01:18:21,738 --> 01:18:27,284 I am ashamed to say that over many years of hardship... 845 01:18:27,744 --> 01:18:32,372 with two daughters, a sick wife and an aged mother... 846 01:18:33,791 --> 01:18:39,171 I have lost the desire to wield a sword. 847 01:18:43,050 --> 01:18:48,472 A serious fight, the killing of a man... 848 01:18:49,682 --> 01:18:56,772 requires animal ferocity and calm disregard for one's own life. 849 01:18:57,023 --> 01:19:01,693 I have neither of those within me now. 850 01:19:03,237 --> 01:19:05,947 Perhaps in a month... 851 01:19:07,116 --> 01:19:12,037 alone with the beasts in the hills I could get them back. 852 01:19:12,914 --> 01:19:20,295 But tomorrow, I am afraid, is completely impossible. 853 01:19:23,007 --> 01:19:27,969 I ask that you extend the honor of this commission... 854 01:19:29,472 --> 01:19:31,556 to another man. 855 01:19:34,936 --> 01:19:38,480 What complete and utter nonsense! 856 01:19:39,899 --> 01:19:44,319 We are not here for foolishness from a petty samurai! 857 01:19:45,696 --> 01:19:49,157 Your clan orders you to kill Yogo. 858 01:19:50,493 --> 01:19:52,494 Do you understand that?! 859 01:19:53,204 --> 01:19:56,456 The Clan's orders are His Lordship's orders. 860 01:19:56,791 --> 01:19:59,584 The very thought of refusal is an offense! 861 01:20:00,711 --> 01:20:05,507 You are relieved of your post! You are expelled from the clan! 862 01:20:05,591 --> 01:20:07,551 Please, Warden... 863 01:20:09,011 --> 01:20:13,682 What do you say, Iguchi? Do you accept? 864 01:20:14,267 --> 01:20:15,350 Of course he does! 865 01:20:15,601 --> 01:20:16,893 Don't you! 866 01:20:19,355 --> 01:20:23,191 May I request an evening or two... 867 01:20:24,026 --> 01:20:27,612 in which to give my answer? 868 01:20:27,697 --> 01:20:28,697 You may not!! 869 01:20:30,366 --> 01:20:31,908 You will answer now! 870 01:21:02,815 --> 01:21:04,649 I obey. 871 01:21:07,862 --> 01:21:10,280 I accept the commission... 872 01:21:13,117 --> 01:21:15,911 to kill Zenemon Yogo. 873 01:21:18,205 --> 01:21:19,748 Well said! 874 01:21:19,790 --> 01:21:23,418 An officer will call at the hour of the snake. 875 01:21:23,753 --> 01:21:26,796 Have your preparations made. 876 01:21:28,424 --> 01:21:29,758 Withdraw. 877 01:21:54,116 --> 01:21:55,116 Iguchi... 878 01:21:57,119 --> 01:22:01,247 Don't worry. Who's Zenemon Yogo anyway? 879 01:22:01,791 --> 01:22:04,584 You're sure to win. 880 01:22:05,378 --> 01:22:08,672 I have decided exactly that. 881 01:22:09,298 --> 01:22:10,340 Good. 882 01:22:10,424 --> 01:22:14,302 One should, however, always prepare for the worst. 883 01:22:16,305 --> 01:22:20,100 That's true. The worst can always happen. 884 01:22:20,184 --> 01:22:24,771 In that event, Commissioner, this will be farewell. 885 01:22:29,652 --> 01:22:32,988 Thank you for everything you've done for me. 886 01:22:35,366 --> 01:22:40,245 Please convey my regards to my colleagues in Stores. 887 01:22:41,539 --> 01:22:44,791 I understand. And, uh... 888 01:22:46,377 --> 01:22:50,922 I'll take responsibility for those you leave behind. 889 01:22:51,841 --> 01:22:54,175 I'll see they are looked after. 890 01:22:57,346 --> 01:22:59,848 That's a relief to hear. 891 01:23:02,768 --> 01:23:05,812 All the best to you. 892 01:24:59,051 --> 01:25:04,556 A strange noise made me open my eyes. 893 01:25:05,307 --> 01:25:10,979 Looking for the sound, I saw my father sharpening his sword. 894 01:25:11,564 --> 01:25:17,735 He looked so strange it was hard to believe he was my father. 895 01:25:20,865 --> 01:25:26,327 I still remember clearly how he looked that night. 896 01:27:28,450 --> 01:27:29,534 We're going. 897 01:27:34,999 --> 01:27:36,082 Kayano! 898 01:27:41,422 --> 01:27:45,633 The Master said: 'a man cunning of word and smiling of face... 899 01:27:45,676 --> 01:27:50,805 'is rarely benevolent. Tseng Tzu said: 'Each day... 900 01:28:02,359 --> 01:28:04,986 Naota, do something for me. 901 01:28:05,070 --> 01:28:05,870 Yup. 902 01:28:06,363 --> 01:28:11,826 You know Miss Tomoe's house in Nishikicho, don't you? 903 01:28:12,286 --> 01:28:13,328 Yup. 904 01:28:13,954 --> 01:28:17,707 Go there, and speak to Miss Tomoe. 905 01:28:18,500 --> 01:28:20,460 Now, this is important. 906 01:28:21,503 --> 01:28:24,422 You have to see Miss Tomoe herself. 907 01:28:25,174 --> 01:28:27,175 And then say... 908 01:28:28,177 --> 01:28:32,889 'I'm really very sorry, but could you come right away? 909 01:28:33,182 --> 01:28:37,018 'I'll explain why when you get here.' 910 01:28:38,020 --> 01:28:39,103 All right? 911 01:28:40,606 --> 01:28:43,858 'I'm really very sorry... 912 01:28:44,985 --> 01:28:48,780 'but could you come right away? 913 01:28:49,365 --> 01:28:50,448 'I'll explain why'... 914 01:28:50,866 --> 01:28:53,076 Uh, 'I'll explain why'... 915 01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:55,536 'I'll explain why when you get here.' 916 01:28:57,206 --> 01:29:00,541 'When you get here.' 917 01:29:00,584 --> 01:29:02,877 That's fine. Hurry. 918 01:29:15,224 --> 01:29:18,893 Look where she laid her egg! 919 01:29:23,565 --> 01:29:25,441 'Could you come'... 920 01:29:27,111 --> 01:29:33,032 'I'll explain why when you get here.' 921 01:29:34,576 --> 01:29:36,994 Whatever's the matter at this hour? 922 01:29:39,248 --> 01:29:42,917 I'm really very sorry... 923 01:29:43,794 --> 01:29:46,462 but could you come right away? 924 01:29:47,089 --> 01:29:50,925 When you get here... uh... 925 01:29:53,095 --> 01:29:54,595 He'll explain why? 926 01:29:55,431 --> 01:29:58,599 Squire Seibei sent you to tell me that? 927 01:29:59,101 --> 01:30:02,478 All right. I'll get ready. 928 01:30:30,257 --> 01:30:34,135 I didn't think you'd come. 929 01:30:52,321 --> 01:30:56,741 The clan has ordered me to go and fight... 930 01:30:57,618 --> 01:30:59,619 another retainer. 931 01:31:02,706 --> 01:31:08,336 I'm going out under orders, so I must be properly dressed... 932 01:31:08,795 --> 01:31:11,923 and I can't do my hair alone. 933 01:31:12,466 --> 01:31:15,885 I'm in a bind, so I asked you to come. 934 01:31:17,304 --> 01:31:23,267 If you can spare the time, could you help me? 935 01:31:23,352 --> 01:31:25,978 When do you have to go? 936 01:31:26,605 --> 01:31:28,773 The hour of the snake. 937 01:31:28,857 --> 01:31:31,484 There's not much time. 938 01:31:32,736 --> 01:31:34,111 Where's your kimono? 939 01:31:34,488 --> 01:31:37,198 It's laid out over there. 940 01:31:40,869 --> 01:31:43,204 Naota, boil some water. 941 01:32:23,287 --> 01:32:25,329 Who's coming for you? 942 01:32:25,872 --> 01:32:27,790 A clan officer. 943 01:32:29,626 --> 01:32:33,921 Naota, will you wait out by the gate? 944 01:32:36,883 --> 01:32:40,970 Sit down. I'll comb your hair. 945 01:33:00,532 --> 01:33:02,783 May I ask why... 946 01:33:05,954 --> 01:33:09,498 you're going out to fight? 947 01:33:13,837 --> 01:33:16,422 I can't refuse a clan order. 948 01:33:18,967 --> 01:33:23,763 Petty I may be, but I'm still a samurai. 949 01:33:38,737 --> 01:33:42,573 Bamboo baskets, hampers! 950 01:33:47,162 --> 01:33:51,666 Bamboo baskets, hampers! 951 01:35:08,452 --> 01:35:11,495 Your elder brother... 952 01:35:14,875 --> 01:35:18,210 asked if I would take you as my wife. 953 01:35:20,130 --> 01:35:21,964 I refused. 954 01:35:23,508 --> 01:35:26,594 Did you know that? 955 01:35:29,014 --> 01:35:30,639 Yes, I did. 956 01:35:32,809 --> 01:35:33,851 But... 957 01:35:35,604 --> 01:35:37,730 But since that day... 958 01:35:39,608 --> 01:35:42,026 when I told him no... 959 01:35:43,445 --> 01:35:48,324 I've started thinking about you. 960 01:35:55,373 --> 01:36:00,127 Now I think of it, ever since we were small... 961 01:36:02,672 --> 01:36:05,466 and I made dolls to give you... 962 01:36:07,677 --> 01:36:12,681 I always dreamed one day you'd come to me as my wife. 963 01:36:16,520 --> 01:36:22,149 That dream stayed with me even after I got married... 964 01:36:23,985 --> 01:36:25,945 and you married Koda. 965 01:36:29,074 --> 01:36:31,867 It's never faded. 966 01:36:39,584 --> 01:36:43,671 I'm going out now to fight to the death. 967 01:36:46,424 --> 01:36:50,302 I'm going to win, and return to this house. 968 01:36:50,971 --> 01:36:56,600 At that time, if I were to ask you... 969 01:36:57,519 --> 01:36:59,603 to be my wife... 970 01:37:02,732 --> 01:37:04,692 would you accept? 971 01:37:12,033 --> 01:37:17,037 A few days ago I had a proposal... 972 01:37:18,331 --> 01:37:20,416 from a retainer in Aizu. 973 01:37:20,500 --> 01:37:24,795 I accepted. 974 01:37:37,934 --> 01:37:40,185 I've been very rude. 975 01:37:43,064 --> 01:37:48,193 I should never have asked you to come here. 976 01:37:50,113 --> 01:37:51,530 No. 977 01:37:52,532 --> 01:37:57,077 I'm happy that you asked me. 978 01:38:08,256 --> 01:38:10,758 I've been a fool. 979 01:38:13,345 --> 01:38:19,350 Please forget everything I've said. 980 01:38:23,521 --> 01:38:28,025 Really? A retainer from Aizu... 981 01:38:30,445 --> 01:38:34,782 That sounds like an excellent arrangement. 982 01:38:45,001 --> 01:38:46,126 Are they here? 983 01:38:46,169 --> 01:38:47,127 Yup. 984 01:38:49,798 --> 01:38:52,633 Well, I'll be going. 985 01:38:56,429 --> 01:39:00,057 Thank you very much for everything. 986 01:39:02,936 --> 01:39:03,978 Um... 987 01:39:05,981 --> 01:39:11,986 I'm afraid I can't wait here until you come back. 988 01:39:13,321 --> 01:39:17,950 I pray with all my heart... 989 01:39:21,871 --> 01:39:28,627 that luck is with you and you come back safely. 990 01:39:46,479 --> 01:39:51,025 Naota, see Miss Tomoe home when she goes. 991 01:39:52,444 --> 01:39:53,944 Take care of the kids. 992 01:40:55,924 --> 01:40:57,466 Mrs Iguchi... 993 01:40:58,927 --> 01:41:01,678 how are you today? 994 01:41:03,348 --> 01:41:05,099 Fine, thank you. 995 01:41:08,144 --> 01:41:12,564 Of which household would you be the daughter? 996 01:41:14,859 --> 01:41:15,818 I am... 997 01:41:18,780 --> 01:41:24,769 Squire Seibei's childhood friend... 998 01:41:28,790 --> 01:41:30,958 Tomoe. 999 01:41:45,807 --> 01:41:47,307 Sir... 1000 01:41:55,316 --> 01:41:57,317 Squire Iguchi? 1001 01:42:01,322 --> 01:42:06,618 Zenemon Yogo has closed himself in with the shutters down. 1002 01:42:10,081 --> 01:42:13,250 That is Genba Hattori, Master of Foot. 1003 01:42:14,586 --> 01:42:17,171 We should remove his corpse... 1004 01:42:17,255 --> 01:42:20,090 but no one can get in. 1005 01:42:22,677 --> 01:42:24,011 Take care. 1006 01:42:25,847 --> 01:42:30,475 Zenemon Yogo is no longer human. He is a beast! 1007 01:42:46,201 --> 01:42:47,576 Leave to enter! 1008 01:43:22,695 --> 01:43:24,238 Sir Twilight... 1009 01:43:39,003 --> 01:43:40,921 So they sent you? 1010 01:43:45,843 --> 01:43:52,057 Zenemon Yogo... by order of the clan, I come for your life. 1011 01:43:53,268 --> 01:43:56,812 Draw your sword, please. 1012 01:44:12,745 --> 01:44:14,413 Have a drink? 1013 01:44:17,292 --> 01:44:21,253 I know you're all keyed up, but I'm going to run. 1014 01:44:22,505 --> 01:44:23,505 Run? 1015 01:44:23,923 --> 01:44:24,881 Yep. 1016 01:44:26,175 --> 01:44:31,096 I want you let me get away. If you please. 1017 01:44:39,188 --> 01:44:43,817 I didn't expect that from the clan's best one-sword man. 1018 01:44:45,737 --> 01:44:50,240 My orders are to kill you. I can't let you escape. 1019 01:44:53,578 --> 01:44:57,789 Don't be so impatient. You can kill me any time. 1020 01:44:59,125 --> 01:45:01,168 I'd like to talk to you. 1021 01:45:02,962 --> 01:45:04,421 Have a seat. 1022 01:45:11,387 --> 01:45:12,971 It's a nice day. 1023 01:45:15,850 --> 01:45:17,184 Sit down. 1024 01:45:35,787 --> 01:45:37,120 What's going on? 1025 01:45:37,205 --> 01:45:39,331 They're talking. 1026 01:45:47,507 --> 01:45:51,343 Even if you escaped, where would you go? 1027 01:45:52,553 --> 01:45:57,224 Over that mountain and I'm out of the clan's domain. 1028 01:45:58,559 --> 01:46:01,144 There are masterless samurai everywhere. 1029 01:46:01,229 --> 01:46:05,690 I can lose myself in them, go to Kyoto, to Edo... 1030 01:46:06,192 --> 01:46:09,319 If I do that for a few years... 1031 01:46:09,404 --> 01:46:12,072 the world will have changed. 1032 01:46:12,824 --> 01:46:15,075 The samurai's day is done. 1033 01:46:15,493 --> 01:46:17,911 This isn't the time for that talk. 1034 01:46:19,414 --> 01:46:23,667 Pick up your sword, please. 1035 01:46:24,961 --> 01:46:28,130 I am under orders from the clan to... 1036 01:46:28,214 --> 01:46:29,756 Like hell! 1037 01:46:33,761 --> 01:46:40,392 You're the clan's errand boy, out to claim a reward. 1038 01:46:41,561 --> 01:46:46,440 Have a drink. I was an errand boy, too. 1039 01:47:01,038 --> 01:47:04,916 I served Lord Shigemasa Toki. 1040 01:47:05,418 --> 01:47:10,881 Twelve years ago he was ordered to commit suicide... 1041 01:47:10,965 --> 01:47:14,634 after a power struggle within his clan. 1042 01:47:15,928 --> 01:47:20,849 Then I wandered for seven years with my wife and daughter... 1043 01:47:21,350 --> 01:47:24,853 in search of a new situation. 1044 01:47:25,855 --> 01:47:26,980 Seven? 1045 01:47:28,483 --> 01:47:31,818 With no income? 1046 01:47:31,861 --> 01:47:33,153 Of course not. 1047 01:47:33,654 --> 01:47:40,076 I did manual labor and helped peasants plant and harvest... 1048 01:47:40,620 --> 01:47:42,287 to get a little rice. 1049 01:47:42,955 --> 01:47:47,834 Or we'd slink into a temple and beg alms there sometimes. 1050 01:47:49,003 --> 01:47:54,341 Three years ago the Unasaka clan made me an official retainer... 1051 01:47:54,842 --> 01:47:59,971 but by then hardship had killed my wife. 1052 01:48:02,475 --> 01:48:07,521 I'm good with a sword, but I'm hard to get along with... 1053 01:48:08,564 --> 01:48:11,525 and I can't hold my liquor. 1054 01:48:12,860 --> 01:48:18,865 But this time I promised myself it'd be different. 1055 01:48:19,158 --> 01:48:23,662 I would do my duty as a true Unasaka retainer. 1056 01:48:24,539 --> 01:48:26,957 I worked hard to do that. 1057 01:48:28,209 --> 01:48:31,586 My superior was Lord Shima Hasegawa. 1058 01:48:32,171 --> 01:48:37,300 He liked me, and did all he could for me. 1059 01:48:38,344 --> 01:48:39,844 To me... 1060 01:48:41,013 --> 01:48:45,725 the tasks he assigned were the tasks of the clan. 1061 01:48:46,811 --> 01:48:53,275 His orders were the clan's orders, and I carried them out faithfully. 1062 01:48:53,359 --> 01:48:57,112 What was wrong with that, Twilight? 1063 01:48:58,447 --> 01:49:01,032 Why do I have to cut open my stomach? 1064 01:49:02,910 --> 01:49:07,414 I haven't come here to answer... 1065 01:49:08,374 --> 01:49:10,375 that kind of question. 1066 01:49:15,339 --> 01:49:22,053 I heard your wife died of consumption. Is that true? 1067 01:49:22,930 --> 01:49:25,181 I'm surprised you know that. 1068 01:49:25,266 --> 01:49:29,269 And her fever went up as night came on? 1069 01:49:30,438 --> 01:49:31,730 Yes. 1070 01:49:33,608 --> 01:49:38,778 Consumption is a hard disease. And it's catching. 1071 01:49:39,947 --> 01:49:44,993 My daughter died of consumption caught from her mother. 1072 01:49:45,953 --> 01:49:49,414 You're not the only one who's suffered. 1073 01:49:50,124 --> 01:49:52,876 How old was your daughter? 1074 01:49:54,503 --> 01:49:55,920 Sixteen. 1075 01:50:02,136 --> 01:50:06,222 When she should have been a bud swelling into bloom... 1076 01:50:06,682 --> 01:50:08,767 she died... 1077 01:50:12,438 --> 01:50:18,068 nothing but skin and bones. A sad, sad sight. 1078 01:50:18,986 --> 01:50:21,696 I'm very sorry to hear that. 1079 01:50:22,573 --> 01:50:24,032 Her ashes. 1080 01:50:29,747 --> 01:50:33,291 She was a pretty girl, with pale skin. 1081 01:50:44,345 --> 01:50:48,807 I guess Lord Hasegawa took pity on me. 1082 01:50:49,558 --> 01:50:55,730 He gave me money for a funeral well above my station. 1083 01:50:56,524 --> 01:50:58,441 If only for that... 1084 01:50:59,276 --> 01:51:04,406 I'm very much in Lord Hasegawa's debt. 1085 01:51:09,078 --> 01:51:11,579 What's your stipend? 1086 01:51:14,208 --> 01:51:15,792 50 koku. 1087 01:51:18,087 --> 01:51:22,924 A sick wife, and children, all on 50 koku? 1088 01:51:24,385 --> 01:51:26,344 That must be hard. 1089 01:51:31,976 --> 01:51:36,730 Doctor and medicine alone cost a ryo and 2 bu a month. 1090 01:51:42,194 --> 01:51:44,571 Piece work wouldn't cover that. 1091 01:51:45,114 --> 01:51:49,409 I borrowed from relatives, but it still wasn't enough. 1092 01:51:50,619 --> 01:51:55,123 Sometimes we didn't even have tomorrow's rice left. 1093 01:51:56,333 --> 01:52:02,088 I know how bad it feels to see the bottom of your rice chest. 1094 01:52:03,132 --> 01:52:05,258 You've had hard times, too. 1095 01:52:05,718 --> 01:52:10,388 Where I really ran into trouble was my wife's funeral. 1096 01:52:12,516 --> 01:52:18,104 The family's main branch wanted a funeral that wouldn't shame them. 1097 01:52:18,189 --> 01:52:19,355 I couldn't afford it. 1098 01:52:21,358 --> 01:52:29,349 I was desperate, so I finally sold my sword. 1099 01:52:34,622 --> 01:52:38,917 It was a fine sword I'd inherited from my father... 1100 01:52:40,377 --> 01:52:43,588 but I figured the age of the sword was over. 1101 01:52:45,466 --> 01:52:50,595 I'm afraid this is just bamboo. 1102 01:52:56,852 --> 01:53:00,939 You're going to kill me with a bamboo sword? 1103 01:53:04,151 --> 01:53:05,652 No. 1104 01:53:06,987 --> 01:53:10,490 I learned short-sword from Toda-sensei. 1105 01:53:11,450 --> 01:53:15,662 I meant to fight with that. 1106 01:53:16,330 --> 01:53:17,956 Short-sword? 1107 01:53:19,667 --> 01:53:23,837 You mean to kill me with some kind of cheap trick? 1108 01:53:25,005 --> 01:53:29,050 You're not taking me seriously, are you. 1109 01:53:30,219 --> 01:53:31,302 Wait! 1110 01:53:31,387 --> 01:53:32,720 I won't have it! 1111 01:53:33,889 --> 01:53:38,434 I only told you that because you wanted me to let you go! 1112 01:53:42,606 --> 01:53:43,690 Draw! 1113 01:53:49,113 --> 01:53:50,113 Sir! 1114 01:54:14,221 --> 01:54:15,972 You're very good... 1115 01:54:18,392 --> 01:54:22,228 If you want to run, now's your chance. 1116 01:54:24,899 --> 01:54:26,566 After I kill you. 1117 01:54:31,697 --> 01:54:32,906 Draw! 1118 01:54:35,200 --> 01:54:38,536 Sir! There's still time to stop. 1119 01:54:49,632 --> 01:54:50,882 Calm down and think! 1120 01:54:52,051 --> 01:54:54,594 You haven't rested since yesterday. 1121 01:54:55,262 --> 01:54:58,640 You're already breathing hard. 1122 01:55:00,351 --> 01:55:02,018 You mock me. 1123 01:55:11,779 --> 01:55:17,617 Sir! Continue this and I'll cut you down. 1124 01:55:18,535 --> 01:55:20,328 Is that what you want? 1125 01:55:20,871 --> 01:55:22,121 That's fine by me. 1126 01:55:26,251 --> 01:55:27,293 Draw. 1127 01:55:57,992 --> 01:56:01,911 You've cut me, Twilight. 1128 01:57:10,314 --> 01:57:14,317 This is what you get for taking me lightly. 1129 01:57:46,266 --> 01:57:48,559 Have a seat. 1130 01:58:04,785 --> 01:58:08,830 Will you let me go, Twilight? 1131 01:58:12,876 --> 01:58:14,627 That was... 1132 01:58:17,005 --> 01:58:19,006 my intention. 1133 01:58:40,612 --> 01:58:42,113 It's dark. 1134 01:58:50,164 --> 01:58:51,998 I can't see. 1135 01:58:59,089 --> 01:59:00,506 Hell. 1136 01:59:19,484 --> 01:59:20,776 Twilight... 1137 01:59:54,603 --> 01:59:55,728 Is it over? 1138 02:00:00,484 --> 02:00:04,445 It's all yours. 1139 02:00:08,033 --> 02:00:09,075 Careful! 1140 02:00:16,333 --> 02:00:17,375 He's dead! 1141 02:00:40,357 --> 02:00:41,607 He's taken. 1142 02:00:45,946 --> 02:00:47,613 Hello! 1143 02:00:49,741 --> 02:00:50,783 Ito... 1144 02:00:53,620 --> 02:00:55,288 Go buy some tofu. 1145 02:00:59,293 --> 02:01:00,668 Don't lose the money. 1146 02:01:09,177 --> 02:01:10,469 Miss Kayano! 1147 02:01:10,762 --> 02:01:12,513 It's the Master! 1148 02:01:24,067 --> 02:01:25,067 Ito... 1149 02:01:27,654 --> 02:01:29,196 I'm home. 1150 02:01:49,885 --> 02:01:53,637 Miss Tomoe! Father's back! 1151 02:02:28,382 --> 02:02:33,260 You're still here... 1152 02:02:39,684 --> 02:02:41,727 Thank heaven! 1153 02:02:43,230 --> 02:02:47,233 I was sure... 1154 02:02:49,069 --> 02:02:51,195 you were dead! 1155 02:03:00,956 --> 02:03:06,043 Finally Miss Tomoe became our mother. 1156 02:03:06,962 --> 02:03:09,004 My father was happy. 1157 02:03:13,802 --> 02:03:20,683 But peace prevailed in our house for less than three years. 1158 02:03:23,019 --> 02:03:26,105 With the Meiji Restoration came civil war. 1159 02:03:27,315 --> 02:03:29,775 Our clan supported the former Shogun... 1160 02:03:30,235 --> 02:03:35,448 and fought as rebels against the emperor's government. 1161 02:03:38,410 --> 02:03:40,619 During this 'Boshin War'.. 1162 02:03:41,746 --> 02:03:45,040 my father was shot and killed. 1163 02:04:09,107 --> 02:04:15,654 Tomoe took us, her step-daughters, to Edo, now 'Tokyo'... 1164 02:04:16,406 --> 02:04:20,284 and supported us until we were both married. 1165 02:04:22,496 --> 02:04:29,168 Now she sleeps with my father beneath this stone. 1166 02:04:31,213 --> 02:04:38,177 In the new Meiji era, many men who had worked with my father... 1167 02:04:38,345 --> 02:04:43,182 rose to positions of great authority. 1168 02:04:43,600 --> 02:04:45,935 I often heard them say... 1169 02:04:46,811 --> 02:04:53,359 that 'Twilight Seibei was an unlucky man.' 1170 02:04:54,361 --> 02:04:56,946 But I do not agree. 1171 02:04:58,698 --> 02:05:03,202 My father had no desire to rise in the world... 1172 02:05:03,745 --> 02:05:08,541 and I don't think he considered himself unlucky. 1173 02:05:10,293 --> 02:05:13,045 He loved his daughters... 1174 02:05:13,672 --> 02:05:16,882 and the beautiful Tomoe loved him. 1175 02:05:18,385 --> 02:05:24,223 His life, I think, was short but full. 1176 02:05:27,102 --> 02:05:33,065 I am proud to have had such a father. 1177 02:06:46,014 --> 02:06:49,308 A Tasogare Seibei Film Partners Production 1178 02:08:18,565 --> 02:08:21,734 Shochiku Co., Inc. Nippon Television Network Corp. 1179 02:08:21,818 --> 02:08:25,237 Sumitomo Corporation. Hakuhodo, Inc 1180 02:08:29,576 --> 02:08:34,997 Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc Eisei Gekijyo Co., Ltd. 1181 02:08:45,425 --> 02:08:52,723 Directed by Yoji Yamada