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PRODUCED I N COMMEMORATION OF THE 60th ANNIVERSARY
OF THE DEATH OF SHOZO MAKI NO, THE FATHER OFJAPANESE CI NEMA
May his soul rest in peace.
Rest in peace.
It's not whatyou think.
This man's a total stranger to me.
You're strong! Very, very strong.
RONI N GAI
Young master, let's have a good time.
Hey, you. You're handsome.
Hey, let's have some fun.
- Hey! - What areyou doing? Damn you!
I wouldn't have screwed you ifI'd known you were such a hag.
- Let go! - Give me my money back.
Damn hag!
- Wait! - Let go!
Wait!
Where areyou going?
- You thief!. - Old hag!
Damn it! You can't get me!
Hey, what's going on?
You guys already blewyourwad, butyou're still horny?
Idiots!
What doyou want?
Look.
When you're horny, get a woman.
When you're mad, take it out on a man.
Why not hit me in the head?
How about it?
You? In the head?
I'm a samurai.
Samurai? So what?
You're living in a good age.
Times have changed so much...
that even horse traders likeyou get a chance to clobber a samurai.
How about it? Fifty mon for this one.
A hundred for this. See?
Isn't this great?
You've got a sword, though.
You want to trick us and kill us, don'tyou?
I'll pay 50.
Thanks.
- I'll pay a hundred! A hundred! - Wait, young man.
A hundred. It's a deal.
Bastard!
A hundred. Remember that.
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Hereyou are.
Osato, roast more sardines.
Where is my sake?
It's coming. You people sure guzzle it up!
Don't do that!
Hey! Bull!
Staying offthe street again tonight, Osen?
I decided to see how things go.
I don't want to be killed like Ochika was.
What are the offiicers doing? I want them to nail the killer quick-
- Osen! More sake! - Coming!
How can I survive like this?
I know, I know!
Bull, wereyou at it again?
Look. I'll pay a hundred for now.
Hey, you sure earned a lot!
But don't overdo it, or they'll knockyou crazy.
- I can't get crazier than this. - That's true.
Hey.
Who's he?
Just vermin.
I guess she's not coming tonight.
- You're leaving? - Yeah. How much?
Twenty-four mon all told.
Twenty-four? So little?
It's almost nothing.
Special just foryou.
Thankyou.
Hey, mister, you'rejoking!
Oshin will coverwhat I'm short.
Oshin?
Just tell her Gennai Aramaki was here to drink.
Hey, wait, mister!
Wait.
Whoeveryou may be, your credit is no good in this shop.
Who the hell areyou?
Stay out ofthis!
When I say I'm broke, I'm broke.
I mean it.
Madam, bring more sake.
Areyou new around here?
Oshin.
It's been a long time.
You get slapped for free, huh? Stupid!
Idiot!
She slapped me because she loves me. Something you don't understand.
- More sake. - Hey!
Ifyou can't pay, leaveyour head here!
You've been talking nonsense ever since I sawyou.
How can I go home ifI leave my head here?
This little brat's got a smart mouth.
Come with me.
All right, all right!
Just let go, huh?
With scum likeyou around, the world's getting fiilthy!
So long as I, ''Bull'' Akaushi, lives,
you can't eat or drink for free in this tavern!
Hey! Pay up!
What areyou saying? You ass!
- You always eat and drink for nothing. - Look!
Ten mon will be enough.
Just pay me 1 0, and we'll forget about this.
What a shameless pig!
Who'd payyou money?
What? You mean you refuse to pay?
You still want me to?
Good!
I'll giveyou something.
Sit down! I'll kill you!
Who called me ''vermin samurai''?
- You? - Not me!
- I quit! - What? Draw!
- I quit! - You can't do it, can you?
See, you can't draw.
You'rejust -
Serves you right!
The difference is here. See?
Hey, you all right?
- Placeyour bets. - Four mon on the samurai.
You can make money using your head too.
Damn it, bastard!
When I wasyoung
Go for it, Samurai! Don't lose!
Ipaida visit toaholyshrine with my wife
A street whore spoke tome, saying
''Comeand haveanice time withme''
ButIcouldn'tanswer becausemy wife was withme
Hey, Horo, you look happy tonight. Keep out ofthis, all right?
Nobody's stopping you, Bull. Go right ahead.
I'll watch to the end, so go right ahead.
You know each other?
You were singing such a bawdy song.
Ifyou want to watch us fiight, pay.
Fight hard, Bull.
''The wind is whistling,
the riverwater freezing.
Gone are men ofholyvalor down the river ofeternity.''
Hey, you understand?
I'm glad you do.
Hey, Horo, don't go to sleep.
Wake up!
For a ronin,
you seem prettywell off.
How comeyou lostyourjob?
Cut a corpse...
Maybe he's doing it for money.
This. Smell it. It stinks.
Smell it.
You can't wash it away no matterwhat.
It sure is rank, huh?
It's salty.
Hey.
What's going on between Oshin and you?
Shut up! It's none ofyour business!
Oshin's name always embarrasses him. Funny man!
Lay off!. You talk too much.
Hey, tell me.
What's Oshin toyou?
What about Oshin?
I'm asking you what Oshin is toyou.
She supports me.
I spend her money.
Don't look at me like that.
Hey, Bull.
Areyou in love with Oshin?
What's wrong with me loving her?
Nothing at all. Ifyou love her so much, take her.
But she's expensive, mind you.
What? Damn you!
Is this all right? Can you let him say that?
No, I can't!
''No, I can't.'' He says he can't.
When Horo says he can't, he really can't.
Hey!
''I can't. I can't.''
You came as a customer?
Sure.
Pay a hundred mon ifyou sleep with me.
That's robbery!
It's the going rate. Got any money?
No.
We don't have to sleep. I'll do it standing up. How's that?
Nonsense!
Where haveyou been? I've been waiting foryou.
Whywait for me?
Well, I -
You were waiting for anotherwoman, right?
What happened to the one in Hongo?
Oh, her.
Lung disease. She croaked.
- Liar! - It's true.
Hey, how many ofyourwomen have died oflung disease?
I can't help it. There was an epidemic.
I knowyour story.
Yourwoman kicked you out becauseyou were broke.
The new woman dumps you, soyou go back to the old one.
You think it's that easy?
Oh, I see.
I understand howyou feel. You're absolutely right.
Leave. Quick.
That hurt.
Hey, what's wrong?
What's the big idea?
I've been thinking aboutyou.
''Oshin, Oshin, Oshin.'' I was like that everyday.
- I'd already forgotten you. - You had?
You hate me?
I could kill you.
Ifyou kill me,
I'll be glad to die.
It's cold tonight.
Sabu, come here.
What?
What's this smell?
Hey, they stink.
What's all this?
Look at their dung! They must have loose bowels.
Listen,
the stench comes all the way to my room.
Can'tyou be considerate?
Hey. Doyou roast and eat these birds?
I'm talking toyou. Why don'tyou say something?
Obun!
Sorry for inconveniencing you all the time.
Let me helpyou.
She's a gem among pebbles.
Didn't I tell you to keep the birds caged?
I'm sewing a kimono for Master Iseya's mistress.
What ifthe bird dirties it?
Why raise birds? They don't sell at all.
Our neighbors hate us for it!
Shut up!
I have plans too.
I used to work for a lord as a horse-riding coach.
Who wants to live like this?
That's why I told you to go to the lord's mansion.
Endo got promoted to chiefretainer.
Everyone says it, so there's no mistake.
He promised, didn't he?
He said he'd hireyou again when the right time came.
Women shouldn't meddle in the affairs ofmen.
What areyou saying?
You're the one who makes your own sisterwork like this!
Ifit's moneyyou want...
sell my armor!
This is our lord's new sword.
Be careful when testing it.
Proceed!
This is a woman's body.
We brought it from the public execution ground this morning.
Rigor mortis hasn't set in yet.
Be careful to cut it properly.
Excellent!
Do it again. The waist this time.
Why not do ityourself?
Ifyou refuse, you'll have to leave without payment.
Here. Ten mon. Thanks.
- How many? - Three.
Here we go. Fifteen mon.
- Thanks. - Thankyou.
Obun!
You look busy!
The price ofrice went up again.
Did you go somewhere?
I'm helping my brother get ajob.
Welcome back!
Sakichi, don't make herwork foryou.
I'm doing this because I like it.
It's good to see thatyou're doing well.
But it's hasn't been safe at night lately.
- Be careful on night patrols. - I will.
- Obun, you can go now. - I can?
- Will you take some? - Thankyou.
Mister, don't pick on him, all right?
- That's the last thing I'd do. - Good-bye.
Give me two.
- No use loving her. - What?
You're no match for her.
Slut.
''I thinked I would die
when he left me.''
Stupid! How many times must I tell you?
It's not ''thinked.'' It's ''thought.''
See?
''I thought...''
''Thought.'' Not ''thinked.''
''Time is medicine. I found another love.''
Why is time medicine?
As time passes, you forget.
When your man leaves you, you thinkyou'll die.
But as time passes, you get over it.
And you fiind another man. That's the story.
- How many loves haveyou had? - As many as you think.
Welcome back.
- What troubles I have! - What happened, Tahei?
It's about the samurai who was murdered last night.
They asked me who might be guilty.
How should I know? Those stupid offiicers!
They're overreacting because the victim was a samurai.
Where's Oshin?
Maybe the ronin we saw wouldn't let her go.
There's something going on between them.
Maybe she's the one who wouldn't let go.
Stupid! Oshin isn't like that.
Bull, come here.
Anyhow, it's good, huh?
You won't have anyworries when you work at night, right?
Why?
They say the murdered samurai was a whore-killer.
What? Don't stare at me like an offiicer.
It wasn't me!
Excuseme.
Let me askyou something.
Does a samurai named Magozaemon Doi,
who was once with the Ogasawara clan, live around here?
I know him. But what is it about, sir?
I have a message for him from Shume Endo,
the chiefretainer at the Ogasawara clan's residence in Edo.
''Heaven lies in the blue far above.
The blue is an accumulation ofspirits.
It's the same as water that looks blue when it's deep.
Heaven is endlessly distant and has no form...''
How noisy! Making a fuss in the daytime.
I suggestyou take such circumstances into full consideration.
Hey, did you get thejob?
Did you make it?
Mr. Doi, will you shareyour luckwith me?
Obun, did you ask him to give me ajob?
Why did you meddle without telling me?
I just told them whatyou wanted to say.
And yourwish has been granted, right? You can return to the clan.
You idiot!
Didn't I tell you? It's not a woman's concern!
Why areyou so mad?
Is it thatyou can't return to the clan after all?
Master Endo said the clan would rehire me at my former salary.
Then we can return to the clan!
But I need money to get thejob.
Money?
Master Endo can't decide on my reemployment by himself.
I have to bribe high offiicials ofthe clan.
How much will we need?
A hundred ryo. A hundred!
A hundred? That much?
You've disgraced me!
You caused it! Go raise a hundred ryo byyourself!.
Brother, why mustyou throw around so much as a hundred ryo ?
Youjust did as Master Endo told you. You took the blame for him.
Enough!
Go out and raise the money, then you can complain!
Miss, let me look atyou.
You're pretty.
Let me tell you something. I'm expensive.
I won't mind paying extra foryou.
Areyou sure?
- I cost a hundred mon. - A hundred? You must bejoking!
Usually it's 24.
I said I'm expensive.
Who'd pay a hundred for a cheap whore? It's ridiculous!
Too bad, mister.
You agreed not to whore around here, didn'tyou?
Once in a while I need to get out.
That man ofyours told you to do this, didn't he?
I'm doing it on my own.
I feel sorry for the old greengrocer.
Ifyou're talking about my dad, lay off.
Oshin, I think this is the right time.
Just straighten yourselfout and take over after me running my shop.
Then it'll prosper even more.
I'm too old to work hard anymore.
See? Think ofit as helping me that way.
''But, in return, leave that man.''
Isn't that whatyou want to say?
I know whatyou're thinking.
Good. We can come to the point.
Ifyou fiind it hard to leave him, I can beyour go-between and -
-Just don't interfere, all right? - I'm not interfering.
Your late fatherwould wantyou to leave him.
What doyou see in such a lout?
Frankly,
I don't know myself.
Osen!
Who the hell did this?
The way he slashed her, the killer must be a samurai.
She was only a whore. Who'd care ifshe were murdered?
Keep back. Go!
Osen!
Yourlife
Seems likeit willneverend
Springcomes everyyear
Itseems likeitneverchanges
Thenyourealize
It wasalla dream
Soyou're here, huh?
You're plastered to the gills!
- What's wrong with being plastered? - Nothing.
What haveyou been doing? You didn't even go to Osen's service.
I've been watching this.
Osen left this. Look!
Are stars so important? Damn it!
IfI died,
you wouldn't shed a tear, right?
That's not necessarily true.
Yes, it's true!
You have no tears, no blood,
no sense ofduty, no human sentiment.
I feel great. That's nice.
You're choking me.
Ow!
Damn you!
What a coldhearted beast!
Damn you!
The kimono made by a samurai's daughter has a good strain and fiits perfectly.
Here. The balance ofyour sewing fee.
Mistress Oyo, I have a request.
What is it? Speak frankly.
I need money.
Will you ask Master Iseya to lend me a hundred ryo ?
A hundred?
My brother has a chance to return to his clan.
But he needs money for it.
His clan is verywealthy.
So we'll repay the money with interest. Please.
Obun, it may sound odd ofme to say this,
but I suggestyou have nothing to do with Iseya.
What areyou doing?
We're going to drink. Keep us company.
Insolent samurai!
You'rejust a townsman's daughter. Don't act big.
- I'm a samurai's daughter. - What clan does your father belong to?
Now thatyou've mentioned it, we won't letyou go unless you tell us.
We're direct retainers ofthe Tokugawa Shogun.
Ifyou're a samurai's daughter, greet us properly!
Wait a minute!
She's one ofmy acquaintances. Let her go!
Who areyou? Sayyour name.
I'm onlywhatyou see now. My name isn't worthy ofmention.
Silence!
You'rejust a nameless ronin. How dareyou interfere with us!
I could apologize ifyou're upset -
Prostrateyourselfand apologize!
- I don't wish to dirty my clothes. - What?
Wait a moment!
Ifyou make a scene here, it'll reflect on Master Iseya.
You must be tired. Please come inside and rest.
Sorry about that.
You're from Aizu?
- Yes. - I see.
- Sorry to be staying so late. - Don't be.
I'm doing this in return for causing you trouble.
Stay as long as you like.
The fact thatyou're from my home town makes the sake taste extra good.
I don't feel like leaving you.
I'm from Aizu, but my family doesn't live there.
How areyour guests doing?
They come only to drink, and they leave when they're ready.
Whenever they go riding in the forest near here,
they drop in to drink.
Master Iseya knows them because he stores their rice.
Then they're important clients.
Yes.
But I prefer a strong carp swimming upstream
to a school ofminnows.
I see.
- Shivers, you say? - Yes!
The moment I kill, shivers run down my spine.
Don't lay a woman, kill her. That's best.
We're dry on sake!
More sake!
When we had nothing to eat,
we broke walls and boiled the plaster to eat it.
Eat like that for two days and you're dead.
What a cruel story.
But that was no reason for the villagers
to giveyou to Iseya in exchange for rice.
I was lucky. I was the only one who was.
You really think so?
Why not?
Don'tyou hate the villagers?
Not at all.
Every day, I can eat well and wear nice -
Seems it stopped raining. I'll be going.
Be good children until I get back.
- Please take care ofthem. - Sure.
- Be careful, Otoku. - Thankyou.
What stinks?
Tell me, tell me, Bull. Tell me!
I'm a bird dealer.
For the rest ofmy life!
I'll rot, remaining a bird dealer!
Endo betrayed me.
The clan people are asses!
Damn them and their hundred ryo! They're all my enemy!
I'll beat them!
Hey, Magoza, don't say that.
It won't getyou anywhere.
I've got an idea.
Why don'tyou help me get ajob too?
Sure, don't getjust one. Get two!
Good! I'll giveyou a plan.
It's your sister Obun.
She's a nice, pretty girl - a gem among pebbles.
She's from a samurai family, and she's a virgin.
Any merchant would pay a fortune for her.
You can sell her for a hundred, even 200.
So why not make her someone's concubine?
Wait!
Wait and let me fiinish.
Then, with the money, you go and seeyour lord.
You get back into the clan, right?
Then you askyour lord to hire me.
It doesn't matter what my rank is going to be.
I'll get Obun back from the merchant,
and I'll marry her.
That way Obun will be a samurai's wife
and live easily and peacefully for the rest ofheryears.
How's that?
Good idea, huh?
It's a good plan!
Let's do it.
Miss.
My masterwants a woman. Will you come?
Sure.
Spare me!
The world is getting fiilthy and rotten
because ofworms likeyou.
Scum!
I'm saying that,
ifwe can fiind the killer, things will be better.
So I urgeyou not to solicit until he's caught.
But we need money for rice. Theywon't sell us rice on credit.
It's too late to start over in another town.
Maybe the best thing to do is hang ourselves.
Don't be silly!
- Share this money among yourselves. - Thankyou.
Just follow my advice. Leave it to me.
- Thankyou. - Don't worry.
Teacher!
Look! I learned fast!
Teacher Bull!
Youjust sent three whores to the devil, and you're not even sweating.
Do something or they'll all be killed. Or don'tyou care?
Is being a bouncer such an easyjob?
I wish I could be a bouncer.
You booze it up and stuffyourselfevery day.
So why not doyourjob?
Please. Don't say anotherword.
Lay off, oryou'll loseyour head.
What?
I'm not the oneyou should be against. You don't make sense.
Oshin, I'll have to askyou again. Sorry to putyou through hardships.
Hey, Bull!
Well, ifit isn't Horo!
What brings you here?
Where's Aramaki?
I thoughtyou came to talk to me.
Well, yes.
I have a favor to askyou.
Yeah?
Anyway, come in fiirst.
It's cramped in here, as you see.
Oh, that? It's his.
He said he came to Edo to study that.
But somehow he got sidetracked.
Have some sake.
Will you sleep with me for this?
I knowyou have Aramaki as your lover.
But I -
I have no other love butyou.
To feel your skin...
Please.
Please!
Master.
Please raiseyour head.
Is it only my body thatyou want?
No.
I'm a prostitute.
You don't have to pay so much only to lay me.
But...
ifyou really love me that much,
ifyou're serious,
take me away from him.
Take me somewhere far away where no one can reach us.
Listen.
We'll just have to run blindly away.
Please, Master Horo.
Oshin.
Don't embarrass him like that.
Your heart and body are inseparable.
You're an adult. You knowyou can't talk oflove beforeyou lay fiirst.
Right, Horo?
Areyou telling me to sleep with him?
Exactly. Go ahead.
- Why? - It's obvious.
You're something like a goddess to Horo.
That's why he'll pay so much foryou.
It's your duty to show him your benevolence.
Wait!
Now thatyou're here, watch us.
Watch what?
How we make love.
It might be fun. Do it.
Yes, I will!
Stop!
Fool!
When a woman says she'll do it, she reallywill.
I see. I'm sorry.
Horo.
Do it.
Step aside.
Do it!
Step aside, or-
You'll kill me?
Then make love?
You forgot something. Hey!
Look!
He paid so much foryou.
Maybe he loves you more than I do.
Look...
you've got anotherwoman again, right?
What areyou saying?
You were ready to leave me anyway, weren'tyou?
What areyou saying?
Oshin!
Why areyou doing that?
You say Lord Obata wants to see me?
Right.
I tookyour story as a lead and investigated him,
and he got really angry.
He insisted on meeting you directly to prove his innocence.
Why did you have to do that?
You'll see him, won'tyou?
Yes, sir.
Buy my noodles!
Eat my noodles!
Welcome, sir!
What'll it be?
Noodles? Verywell, sir.
Know something?
I used to be a samurai years ago just likeyou.
But being a samurai had meaning
onlywhen there were many civil wars, like long ago.
The age ofcivil wars is over.
To be a samurai now,
-you have to be stubborn and showy. - Make it quick.
- Can you hurry? - I know.Just a minute.
So I quit being a samurai.
And now I take it easy.
The key to Osaka-style noodles is the broth.
Try my noodles with the broth.
Hereyou are.
- Osaka-style noodles? - That's right.
How are they?
- They taste like real Osaka noodles. - Thankyou, sir.
Anything wrong with the noodles? Oh, I forgot pepper.
They're tasty. Excellent!
The true taste ofOsaka noodles!
Thankyou.
Thankyou, sir. I'm happiest when people say that.
Even though I quit being a samurai,
I still fiight every day.
Ifpeople say my noodles are good, I win.
But when they say they're lousy, I lose.
It makes me feel as ifI were killed.
Then yours was a great victory.
I won.
They're good.
Really good.
For noodles like these,
I would pay one ryo. But anyway, doyou have change?
No. It's free. I don't want money.
- Areyou serious? - Ofcourse.
But I must pay.
You paid with your tears. It's enough.
Thankyou ever so much.
Well then -
Hey...
why don'tyou call them ''samurai noodles''?
- What? - Sounds good, huh?
''Samurai noodles''?
Good luck.
Thanks. Please come again.
Samurai noodles!
Thankyou.
Samurai noodles!
''Samurai noodles...''
Master Horo, you're alone today?
I've been waiting for Bull, but -
There isn't a daywhen he doesn't drop in. I wonderwhat happened to him.
Listen, pop.
He may not be a great man, butyou'll take care ofhim, won'tyou?
What doyou mean by that?
I'm going on a trip.
On a trip?
Just tell Bull so.
I see.
Then, it's not like a farewell gift or anything,
but stay here as long as you'd like tonight.
- Areyou going out? - Yes.
I have something to do. Sorry.
- Pop. - Yes?
Never mind.
Take care ofyourself.
See to the shop.
MOURNI NG
Who did this to him? Why?
Who keeps on doing such terrible things?
What are the offiicers doing?
We can't count on them.
Right. We can't rely on others.
There's no one in the world we can depend on.
Look.
You didn't write ''T'' for tooth.
T? Tooth?
Teeth...
Sakichi.
Yes?
Where did the master say he would go?
He said it was a secret.
Tell me!
Who was it who killed him?
Next word.
It's a pack ofseven samurai, direct retainers ofthe Shogun.
I can't think ofanyone else.
Not only seven.
Ifthey're direct retainers,
each ofthem has at least 20 more working for him.
Ifthey get together, they'll number over a hundred.
Far too many for any one man to handle.
I'm going back to my clan.
I can't get involved. I can't help.
Who asked foryour help?
Doyou men work here, or areyou customers?
Anyone else here who's related to the master?
Ifso, bring him!
What is this regarding?
Areyou women the whores who work this district?
So what?
We're direct retainers ofthe Shogun.
This shop's owner, Tahei, accused us without grounds.
Therefore we punished him.
Ifyou seek revenge, we'll acceptyour challenge.
Call for help ifyou like.
Bring all the men you can fiind.
Whores are the root ofthe world's degradation!
Anyone who dares engage in such base conduct as seducing men
shall be punished by death, every last one.
Remember that well!
But we must work to eat, unlikeyou.
Brat!
He's only a kid. No need to get upset.
What?
You!
This your hangout, huh?
I see.
It was you rotten ronin who got the idea to send Tahei to us. Is that it?
Quitjabbering!
You retainers to the Shogun orwhateveryou claim to be,
we're busywith Tahei's funeral service now.
Ifyou're through, get lost!
Silence, whore!
Oshin, what areyou doing?
The old man's alone and lonely. Why not staywith him?
Let me settle this.
Bull!
Come with me.
Don't get us involved. They're all yours, Bull.
He never fiights for free. I know what's on his mind.
You! Go help him now!
Whywaste my life? Forget it!
I humbly apologize for their always being defiiant, noble samurai.
Starting today, I, Akaushi,
will consideryou my lord and serveyou.
I imploreyou to consider me.
A hundred koku ofrice will be enough for salary.
A hundred?
- Seventywill do. - Seventy?
Fifty koku will do!
Play a dog!
Act like a dog, and I'll hireyou for 50 koku.
Get that sandal with your mouth and bring it back.
Sakichi! What happened?
I couldn't fiind him. I didn't hear anything about a dead person either.
I see.
Hey.
What areyou doing?
Where doyou thinkyou are?
What is your problem?
This kitchen wasjust as important to old Tahei as his life.
It's a sacred place where we cook food.
What's wrong with washing my feet in the sink? Idiot!
Everything! Hey, where areyou going?
I don't belong here.
- You running away? - From what? Say all you want.
I asked foryour help, and yetyou'd still leave us?
I told you, didn't I?
Whether Bull lives or dies, he does so on his own.
What a thing to say! You call yourselfa man?
What?
- You mean you're a woman? - Damn you!
Ass!
It's outrageous!
Outrageous!
I'll kill them! I'll kill them all!
Brother!
Master!
Teacher...
Thankyou.
Starting today,
I'll call you ''Dog'' instead of''Bull.'' All right?
Come, Dog!
Lord, a stray dog is over there.
Please go ahead.
A stray dog?
- Don't let him fool you, huh? - Right.
Turn around and bark!
Hey, don't tell meyou'll kill me.
I don't even feel like it.
You envy me, right?
Because I found work paying even 50 koku, in these times ofpeace.
What a pathetic man!
Hey, areyou really taking a trip?
Bull.
Don't let them kill any more whores.
And don't drink too much now thatyou've got ajob.
Let me do it too. Let me help.
I want to do it alone. Leave it to me.
Please. Let me do something foryou.
Innocent people like Tahei and the women are killed. I feel -
It's notyour concern!
Don't get involved,
oryourwhole life will be ruined.
I'm a samurai's daughter after all.
I'm prepared.
I'll giveyou this shop, the tenement, everything.
Sell it all, and it'll bring at least a hundred ryo.
So go home.
Go now.
Go home.
I said go home!
It's more convenient to give the magistrate this note than cash.
You can cash our note anywhere, anytime.
Thanks.
Leave the rest to us.
Enjoyyour drinks fiirst.
A hundred ryo.
Ifonly I had a hundred ryo.
Silence!
Obun, is thatyou?
Excuse me.
Where's Obun?
She's been out since early evening.
Would you please give this letter to a lady named Oshin? It's urgent.
- Who areyou? - Please do as I say.
The lives ofyou people are at stake. Please be sure to do it.
Miss.
She's the one we met at Iseya's villa the other day!
- What? - That's right.
I recall she said she's a samurai's daughter.
You lied!
Damn slut!
Brother, what doyou suggest we do?
Kill her? Or poke at her?
Poke?
We'll poke her to the fullest.
It's you, Obun! What areyou doing here?
What heavy makeup!
Teacher...
Come!
Hey, what doyou think you're doing at a place like this?
Keep away from Obun.
I will allow no man to harm her!
Teacher...
Here I go!
Sakichi!
Seems the curtain rose on Act II, huh?
There's a moth in the fiire!
Don't move, or I'll shoot.
I have only one bullet.
I can't afford to waste it.
There's only one man I want to kill.
Bull, stand aside!
I can't do that.
When my lord is in danger, how can I leave him?
I can't step aside.
True retainers must be prepared to die for their lord.
Now, shoot me!
I've met plenty ofdisgusting men in my day,
butyou're the lowest ofthem all!
It's Gennai!
Dog, you've done well! I'll guaranteeyour 50 koku.
Thankyou, sir.
Those damn retainers!
Their attitude gets on my nerves.
- Areyou all right? - You need to light myway!
I hear it's a method ofpunishment used in ancient China.
Two bulls pull apart the legs ofa woman who's tied like this.
She gets ripped in half.
How's that?
Try, Bull.
That hurt!
How can I tear her crotch only by doing this?
You'rejoking. Only real bulls can do it.
Two real bulls pull her legs.
Lord!
- There's a problem! - What happened?
The offiicerwas killed. The note for a hundred ryo was stolen.
Who did it?
He ambushed us in the dark, so -
But I remember he smelled like bird shit.
Bird shit?
You -
Well -
Let's have sake! Let's celebrate in advance.
Horo.
Comejoin me.
Bird shit, huh? It must've been Gennai Aramaki.
There's no mistake.
Gennai Aramaki?
About that note, there's a way to cover it up.
And I doubt that the disappearance ofone offiicer means much either.
Gennai Aramaki is one ofthe ronin who loafat the tavern all the time.
You're indeed great, Iseya. You know all about the common people.
It's nothing.
It's because mywoman Oyo favors him.
Oyo does?
It's a shame to see such a thrilling show all by ourselves.
This could be a profiitable show.
It would be fun! It reallywould be!
The plot is thickening. Let's drink to it again.
How exciting!
Obun?
I understand.
''The worms ofthe world eat, defecate, fornicate and still hesitate.
It's the same with everyone,
from the emperor down to the beggars.''
Mistress!
Why?
Why mustyou rescue us?
Damn it!
Master!
Oyo, what areyou doing here? Why aren'tyou entertaining my guests?
Master! I imploreyou!
Please ask the samurai to release these two ladies! Please!
Quit begging!
Have I ever rejected your request? Not even once, right?
And I send rice toyourvillage everyyear.
Isn't that right?
Master-
Don't thinkyou can fool me!
How long areyou going to do this?
I already know thatyou love that fiilthy ronin Aramaki!
For that I'll kill you!
Remember.
It will be in the Kogoi forest.
- Obun! - Sakichi!
Hurry! Quick!
Master!
Your brother is probably drinking. I'll take care ofthis.
All right!
Where's my brother?
What? Hejust left with Horo.
What's up, Obun?
Oshin will be killed. Don'tyou care?
Can you call yourselfa man? Can you even call yourselfhuman?
They even got Iseya's mistress. She was innocent.
She tried to rescue them and was killed!
I won't risk my life for strangers.
Oshin is no stranger!
- Yes, she is. - I don't think so!
- Yes. - No, she's not!
Kids can't understand. Quitjabbering!
All right. You want money.
- I'll buyyour precious life. - How much will you pay?
- Ten ryo. - Fifteen!
- Done! - It's a deal!
Here we go.
Bull! What's keeping him?
- Hey, Sakichi! - Yes?
They're heavy!
Looks like he isn't coming. Let's rip her!
Be patient. We'll get the note back fiirst.
Brother!
What's the big idea?
Obun, what happened toyour face?
Brother, it's Oshin! She's -
What about her?
The Shogun's retainers got her.
They're going to tear her in half using bulls, in the Kogoi Forest!
What?
It's him.
Here he comes!
He fiinally showed up.
Kill him!
Oshin!
Oshin! You hear me?
You hear me, Oshin?
I'm saying this foryour own good.
- Don't worry about me. - I've got a hundred ryo.
Oshin's sacrifiicing herselffor us.
How can you return to the clan, leaving her to die?
What kind ofa samurai areyou?
Obun.
You won't regret it?
No, I won't.
I understand.
Gennai!
Let mejoin you!
Sure thing!
Careful! It's wild!
Don't worry! I'm an expert!
Gonzo, I'm borrowing your horse!
Hey, where areyou going?
Lout!
''The wind is whistling,
the riverwater freezing.
Gone are men ofvalor,
never, never to return...''
Bull -
Bull!
- Madam! - Yes?
Bring me more fiish and miso soup.
- Madam! - Welcome!
Hey, it's still daytime.
Obun - I mean, madam, bring us some sake.
Oshin took to the road with Gennai.
Magozaemon went to Nagasaki.
He said he'll study Dutch medical science.
You loved this place best ofall, didn'tyou?
Stay as long as you like,
drinking and sleeping.
YAGOEMON AKAUSHI
Work hard and be a good madam.
Thankyou. I'll expand the place. Be sure to come back.
Master!
All the dead samurai are regarded as having died from illness.
And Obata and the other survivors have been ordered to commit hara-kiri
for having disgraced the Shogun.
That's the world ofthe samurai.
Where areyou going?
To Echigo. I'll visit my parents' grave.
Then I'll move on to Nagasaki and take care of Magozaemon.
Good timing.
Will you give this to Magozaemon?
Tell him to use it for his education.
Master, money comes and goes.
I'll earn it back and send some more. Good luck.
- Good luck! - Take care ofyourself!.
Good luck!
Let's go back to work!
THI RTY-TWO YEARS LATER, I N 1 868, THE TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE FELL,
AND A NEW REGI ME UNDER EMPEROR MEIJI WAS ESTABLISHED.
Gennai Aramaki: YOSHIO HARADA
Oshin: KANAKO HIGUCHI
Gonbei Horo: RENJI ISHI BASHI
Obun: KAORU SUGITA
Oyo: HI ROKO ISAYAMA Sakichi: TAKUYA FUJISAKI
Otoku: MOEKO EZAWA Onaka: TATSU NAKAMURA
Osen: MANKO KURENAI Otsuya: YUKI E KAGAWA
Dendayu Obata: BUNMEI TOBAYAMA Constable Kashiwagi: TAKASHI TSUMURA
Gonzo: TAKUJI AOKI Biwa Player: HI DEYO AMAMOTO
Tahei: MICHITARO MIZUSHI MA Shichirouemon Obata: AKI RA NAKAO
Iseya: KEI SATO Noodleman: HI ROYUKI NAGATO
Magozaemon Doi: KUNI E TANAKA
Yagoemon Akaushi: SHI NTARO KATSU
Executive Producers: HISAO NABESHI MA, KANZABURO ADACHI, TAKEO MUTAI
Concept by HISAO NABESHI MA
Produced byYOSHITO YAMAZAKI, YOSHI KI NOMURA, YASUTAKA TARUMI
Supervised by MASAHI RO MAKI NO
Based on a story by ITARO YAMAGAMI
Screenplay by KAZUO KASAHARA
Music byTEIZO MATSUMURA
Cinematography byJI N TAKAIWA Production Design byAKI RA NAITO
Special thanks to KAZUO MIYAGAWA
Directed by KAZUO KUROKI