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A Ninjin Club Production
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Produced by Shigeru Wakatsuki
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Original Story by Yakumo Koizumi
Screenplay by Yoko Mizuki
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Director of Photography:
Yoshio Miyajima
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Sound effects by Toru Takemitsu
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THE BLACK HAIR
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Michiyo Aratama-Misako Watanabe
Rentaro Mikuni
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THE WOMAN OF THE SNOW
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Tatsuya Nakadai
Keiko Kishi
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HOICHI, THE EARLESS
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Katsuo Nakamura
Tetsuro Tanba
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IN A CUP OF TEA
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Kanemon Nakamura
Osamu Takizawa-Haruko Sugimura
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Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
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THE BLACK HAIR
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In old Kyoto there was
a young samurai
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who had been reduced to poverty
by the ruin of his lord.
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He decided to leave his home
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and take service with the
governor of a distant province.
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Goodbye.
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Stay well. I can't live here
with you. I have a future.
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For men, advancement is the
most important.
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I can't give it up
just because of you.
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I can't bury my future here.
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Must you leave Kyoto?
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I'll work harder than before.
I'll weave day and night.
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I'll slave for a better living.
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If I lose this chance,
I'll be finished.
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Don't try to stop me. The new
post will bring me fortune.
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If you can remarry a man
of some distinction,
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you'll have fortune too.
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There's nothing more to say.
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I've had enough of poverty!
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You're going to leave
early in the morning.
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So you better go to bed now.
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Take her to the bridal chamber.
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My daughter is finally married.
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I feel relieved now.
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I'm glad to have you
in my family.
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Thank you.
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He knows his obligation.
He'll serve her well.
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Please, take care of my daughter.
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Yes.
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The samurai could not understand
the value of love.
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He divorced his good wife
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and married the daughter of
a noted family to gain position.
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And he took her
to his new post.
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It was the thoughtlessness
of youth
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and the experience of desire.
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His second marriage did not
prove a happy one.
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His new wife was selfish
and callous.
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He soon found every cause to
recall with regret his Kyoto days.
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Then he discovered he still loved
his first wife -
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loved her more than he could
ever love his second.
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And he began to realise
how unfair
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and how ungrateful
he had been.
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Memories of a woman
he had wronged -
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her gentle speech,
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her smile,
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her pretty dainty ways,
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her impeccable patience...
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...continuously haunted him.
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I quit!
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The same old game!
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I'm tired of it!
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Girls, you're dismissed.
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You better go to bed now.
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Your husband is still reading.
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How ungrateful you are!
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You've gained position because of
my family's social prestige.
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You only used me.
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You're always cherishing your
old memories.
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You're walking out on me!
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The dew won't help.
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Please, go to your bedroom
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and nurse her ladyship.
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Nurse her? That's your duty.
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Don't say that.
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She may return to her parents
tomorrow if she wants to.
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I can't stand seeing her
dissatisfied look any more.
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Tell her so.
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After all, I was young
and thoughtless.
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I'll find my ex-wife
whom I deserted
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and make amends
for my sinful act.
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The years went by.
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And his official term expired.
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It was September 10th when he
reached the street of Kyoto
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where his first wife
used to live.
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It was midnight and the city was
as silent as a cemetery.
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When did you come back to Kyoto?
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Now. Just now.
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How did you find your way to me,
through all those black rooms?
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Stay seated.
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Don't bother.
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I'll get supper.
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I don't want it.
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You haven't changed a bit.
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You look just like you did before.
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Your face that I couldn't
forget for a moment...
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and your voice that was
so dear to me!
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Forgive me.
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I was cruel. I was a fool.
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I deserve your hatred.
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Until the day my official
term expired,
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how I longed to come back to you!
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How deeply I regretted
my selfishness!
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How wretched I was without you!
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How I loathed myself
for divorcing you!
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How long I've hoped and planned
to make amends!
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As soon as I became free.
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I wanted to come back to Kyoto
and find you.
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I hurried here in the dark.
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It's very kind of you
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thinking about me so much.
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Forgive me.
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Please forgive me.
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I was such a fool!
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Don't reproach yourself.
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It's wrong to allow yourself
to suffer on my account.
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I always felt that I wasn't
worthy of being your wife.
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Don't...
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I knew that, but I couldn't help
trying to be near you.
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Anyway, it was very cruel of me
to have divorced you.
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It was because of poverty.
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While you lived with me,
you were always kind.
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Why should I think ill of you?
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I prayed for your good fortune
every day and night.
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I'll make amends.
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Forget it.
You came a long way home.
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What greater happiness
than to see you again...
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even if only for a moment?
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Only for a moment!
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Make it the length of
seven lifetimes!
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Unless you forbid it,
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I'll live with you always...
always!
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Nothing shall ever
separate us again.
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Your fragrant hair!
It's the same as before.
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The same glossy hair...
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dark eyes...
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Iovely nose...
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soft cheeks...
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and...
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I've forgotten my sorrow.
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Many things have happened
in Kyoto since you went away.
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I imagine so.
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I can't tell you everything
in a night.
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Soon it'll be dawn.
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Yes. This room is very dear to me.
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It was our bridal chamber.
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We spent several nights here.
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I don't want to sleep now.
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I want to talk of the past and the
present and the future with you
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and feel as happy as I am now.
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I also feel as if
this were a dream.
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I don't want to sleep
for a moment
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so I can keep you forever.
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THE WOMAN OF THE SNOW
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In a village of Musashi Province
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there lived two woodcutters:
Mosaku and Minokichi.
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Mosaku was an old man
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and Minokichi, his apprentice,
was a boy of eighteen.
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Everyday, they went to a forest
a few miles away
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from the village.
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One cold day, a great snowstorm
overtook them on their way home.
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The boatman had left his boat
on the other side of the river.
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It was no day for swimming.
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I intended to treat you like
the other man.
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But I couldn't help feeling pity
for you
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because you're so young.
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You're a handsome boy.
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I will not hurt you now.
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But if you ever tell anybody -
even your own mother
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about what you've seen tonight,
I'll know it.
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And then I'll kill you.
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Remember that.
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Understand?
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I'll be going now.
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We sell wood for a living.
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You can't work for some time,
not before spring.
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The terrible cold night
made you ill.
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Eat the porridge.
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Take care of yourself, son.
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Or you'll be frozen
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and dead like that old Mosaku
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whose blood was all gone.
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If this happens to you again,
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you won't survive.
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Are you listening?
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You've said nothing
about that night.
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A year passed.
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As soon as he got well,
he resumed working.
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Every morning, he went
to the forest alone
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and returned with bundles
of wood after sunset.
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Where are you going
in the evening?
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Edo.
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Now?
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Yes.
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I lost my parents.
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My relatives in Edo might help me
find work as a servant.
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Brothers?
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None?
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You'd need connections
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to find work in Edo.
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Is it so hard to get work
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when you don't know anyone?
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You could get married...
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With you?
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Come!
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That's my house.
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Why don't you take a rest?
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There's nobody you have to mind.
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But...
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Only my mother and I live there.
Come!
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Your name is Yuki?
I see, I see.
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Going to Edo alone
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sounds very dangerous.
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People are not always kind.
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Young girls must be careful
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not to be bothered by bad men.
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Come eat while it's hot.
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And Yuki bore him
three children,
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handsome and very fair of skin.
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She acquired a fame for being a
good wife among the villagers.
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Take a moment to reflect
on Grandma's grave.
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Show her you've grown up.
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Give her your flowers.
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It seems she never gets old.
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Really.
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She's as young today as on the day
she first came into the village.
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She's a wonder.
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Were you at the grave?
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Yes. It's my mother-in-law's
memorial day.
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That's good.
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She must be pleased to see her
nice grandchildren
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praying for her.
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She's happy.
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She died praising
her son's wife.
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It's not very common.
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No.
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Usually, a mother-in-law talks ill
of her son's wife.
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No matter how good the wife is.
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That's not true.
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Thanks to you, I'm happy.
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What a happy couple,
you and your husband!
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He must be happy.
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He has such a good and beautiful
woman for a wife.
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Naturally.
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What a young wife!
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Most peasant women age early
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after having three children.
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She still looks like a girl.
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She's a wonder.
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Put them on.
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Is it too small?
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And the children's?
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I made them.
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How nice! All ready... the sandals
for the holiday season!
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If the thongs are too tight,
I'll fix them.
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Now try them on.
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Yes.
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How beautiful!
Why the red thongs?
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You're still young.
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I'm a mother of three children.
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Red is still your colour.
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Your feet look beautiful.
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It fits well.
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Not too tight, not too lose.
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It's exactly my size.
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Your sandals look beautiful
and sturdy
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so people come to you
for special orders.
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This pair is exceedingly good.
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I made them so that
they'll match your kimono.
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As if I were going away
on a journey!
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I can't buy you a new kimono,
so at least you have sandals.
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With your sandals and my kimono
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our children will have
a wonderful holiday.
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How is it going?
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A few more stitches.
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Why are you watching me
so intently?
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I just remembered
that night ten years ago.
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It's strange to recall it now
after so many years.
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You're sewing with the light
on your face
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and I'm looking up at you
like this.
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That's why I remembered
that night...
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What night?
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A strange thing happened
that night.
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I can remember it well as if it
happened yesterday.
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I was eighteen then. I never
told anybody about that night.
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I'm not sure it was real
or a dream.
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It was the night that old Mosaku
was frozen dead
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as if his blood were all gone.
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I saw with my own eyes a woman
who was bending over him.
01:12:41.551 --> 01:12:47.554
And she was blowing her breath
like a white smoke upon him.
01:12:47.974 --> 01:12:52.470
Then he became stiff and
couldn't move.
01:12:55.398 --> 01:12:59.312
That woman stooped over me, too.
01:12:59.611 --> 01:13:01.568
And I got almost numb.
01:13:05.074 --> 01:13:06.782
Then,
01:13:08.077 --> 01:13:10.865
the eyes of the horrible woman
01:13:12.540 --> 01:13:17.535
looked very, very beautiful.
01:13:18.087 --> 01:13:20.329
She was so beautiful
01:13:23.009 --> 01:13:25.298
and white like you.
01:13:28.640 --> 01:13:30.134
Yes!
01:13:31.559 --> 01:13:34.430
You looked exactly like her
just now.
01:13:38.733 --> 01:13:40.726
That's why I remembered.
01:13:42.111 --> 01:13:46.939
Once the memory haunted me
day and night.
01:13:48.117 --> 01:13:50.608
I became sick after that.
01:13:58.545 --> 01:14:03.088
I tell you, it was when I spent
01:14:03.508 --> 01:14:06.081
the terrible snowstormy night
in the ferryman's hut.
01:14:06.302 --> 01:14:10.134
I saw very clearly the weird
woman who killed old Mosaku.
01:14:13.142 --> 01:14:19.228
I've never seen in my life
a woman as beautiful and white
01:14:19.482 --> 01:14:21.522
as her except you.
01:14:22.694 --> 01:14:26.608
Of course, she's not a human
being and I was afraid of her.
01:14:27.615 --> 01:14:33.120
She was the Woman of the Snow
who was hungry for warm blood...
01:14:36.207 --> 01:14:36.791
...or a dream.
01:14:36.791 --> 01:14:37.657
...or a dream.
01:14:43.006 --> 01:14:44.416
Not a dream.
01:15:08.615 --> 01:15:09.895
I...
01:15:12.911 --> 01:15:14.737
It was me.
01:15:17.081 --> 01:15:18.576
Me!
01:15:20.919 --> 01:15:22.543
Me!
01:15:32.138 --> 01:15:36.052
It was Yuki.
01:15:40.146 --> 01:15:45.567
You promised that night you'd
never tell anybody.
01:15:47.403 --> 01:15:50.155
You finally broke the promise.
01:15:52.075 --> 01:15:56.155
It was a pledge for life
for both of us.
01:15:57.997 --> 01:16:02.077
I told you if you broke it,
I would kill you.
01:17:35.970 --> 01:17:39.339
You betrayed me!
01:17:46.064 --> 01:17:50.311
Ah, if it were not for those
children asleep there
01:17:54.280 --> 01:17:56.854
I would kill you this moment!
01:18:19.806 --> 01:18:22.012
From now on
01:18:24.978 --> 01:18:31.692
you'd better take good care
of those children.
01:19:20.867 --> 01:19:26.454
If they have any reason to
complain about you
01:19:29.751 --> 01:19:32.289
I'll treat you as you deserve!
01:22:48.241 --> 01:22:55.656
Intermission
01:23:38.333 --> 01:23:42.829
HOICHI, THE EARLESS
01:24:07.070 --> 01:24:12.526
The time had come.
01:24:15.537 --> 01:24:18.621
It was dawn on March 24th
01:24:18.915 --> 01:24:23.791
in Year 1 of the Genryaku era (1185)
01:24:24.879 --> 01:24:29.043
The armies of the Genji
and Heiké clans were determined
01:24:29.342 --> 01:24:33.671
to fight one last time at Dan-no-ura,
off Kyushu
01:24:35.849 --> 01:24:42.979
in the Shimonoséki Strait.
01:25:02.417 --> 01:25:05.252
Procurator Kanzo from Kumano
01:25:05.503 --> 01:25:10.580
had hoisted the Kongo-Doji flag
01:25:14.971 --> 01:25:19.550
and placed on the frontline
01:25:19.851 --> 01:25:25.521
the boats belonging to Kawanano Michinobu,
inhabitant of the Province of Lyo.
01:25:27.400 --> 01:25:32.358
He'd decided to side with the Genji
01:25:34.490 --> 01:25:42.913
with his warriors, on board
two hundred ships.
01:25:50.880 --> 01:25:57.167
The Genji and their allies thus
created a mighty navy
01:25:58.888 --> 01:26:03.265
comprising of three thousand warships
01:26:05.019 --> 01:26:09.432
with the aim of encircling the Haiké navy.
01:26:10.483 --> 01:26:16.735
The Genji an Heiké couldn't wait
for the hostilities to start.
01:26:18.574 --> 01:26:23.735
Both armies flung themseves at each other.
01:26:24.518 --> 01:26:28.227
It is a well-known fact that the Genji army
had been put under the high command
01:26:29.356 --> 01:26:39.780
of General Yoshitsuné from Genji.
01:26:47.040 --> 01:26:49.875
At Dan-no-ura of
Shimonoseki Channel
01:26:51.044 --> 01:26:55.789
the last battle was fought between
the Genji and the Heike clans.
01:26:58.552 --> 01:27:04.804
The Heike were defeated in many
battles and escaped to the west.
01:27:06.017 --> 01:27:10.929
And here, the clan perished
with the infant emperor.
01:28:28.433 --> 01:28:44.022
Notonokami Noritsune knew
this was his last day.
01:28:45.242 --> 01:28:51.861
The Genji samurai
were no match for him.
01:28:52.124 --> 01:28:59.040
He wanted to cross swords with
Yoshitsune, the Genji commander.
01:28:59.631 --> 01:29:08.006
"Come on, Yoshitsune!"he called.
01:31:17.310 --> 01:31:25.733
The high waves prevented them
from landing the shore.
01:31:26.153 --> 01:31:33.567
And the Genji ships blocked the
one possible escape to the sea.
01:31:33.952 --> 01:31:38.661
They waited with arrows
in their bows.
01:31:39.082 --> 01:31:44.503
The crew were all dead
01:31:45.088 --> 01:31:50.545
and the Heike ships had
no where to go.
01:31:50.927 --> 01:32:03.147
Some sank, some went adrift.
01:32:04.065 --> 01:32:22.158
The long contest between
the two samurai clans
01:32:22.834 --> 01:32:27.792
was reaching its end.
01:33:01.790 --> 01:33:20.131
Lady Nii saw the end
of the battle.
01:33:22.561 --> 01:33:30.900
She held the infant emperor
in her arms.
01:33:31.736 --> 01:33:47.657
"Woman though I am, I won't let
my enemy kill me.
01:33:48.837 --> 01:34:00.759
I'll escort His Majesty
to the next world.
01:34:00.974 --> 01:34:07.178
If you have loyalty, follow me."
01:35:24.683 --> 01:35:28.134
have been haunted for
seven hundred years.
01:35:29.521 --> 01:35:33.305
Thousands of strange crabs
01:35:35.610 --> 01:35:38.979
called Heike crabs
01:35:39.239 --> 01:35:41.196
which have human faces
01:35:41.825 --> 01:35:45.609
on their backs are found there.
01:35:50.417 --> 01:35:52.540
After Amidaji temple was built
at Akamagahara
01:35:52.794 --> 01:35:55.083
to console the dead
samurai's souls
01:36:01.887 --> 01:36:05.137
many strange things took place.
01:36:27.162 --> 01:36:28.442
Hoichi!
01:36:32.417 --> 01:36:33.793
Hoichi!
01:36:45.639 --> 01:36:47.631
Here you are.
01:36:48.016 --> 01:36:50.341
Be careful not to fall
into the well, Hoichi.
01:36:50.519 --> 01:36:51.384
Yes.
01:36:52.020 --> 01:36:54.689
The Priest wants you to take care
while we're away.
01:36:55.190 --> 01:36:57.317
We're going to perform a service
at the house
01:36:57.354 --> 01:36:59.108
of a dead parishioner.
01:36:59.361 --> 01:37:00.226
Yes.
01:37:01.363 --> 01:37:02.691
There's a piece of watermelon
for you in the kitchen.
01:37:02.948 --> 01:37:04.406
Eat it while it's cold.
01:37:04.908 --> 01:37:06.319
Yes. Thank you.
01:37:06.910 --> 01:37:08.238
All right.
01:37:21.425 --> 01:37:23.832
I told him to take care.
01:37:24.886 --> 01:37:27.258
He's new here. I'm afraid.
01:37:27.806 --> 01:37:29.680
I think he'll be all right.
01:39:32.139 --> 01:39:33.087
Who is it?
01:39:51.324 --> 01:39:54.195
Are you back, Priest?
01:40:39.581 --> 01:40:44.124
No one would visit here
at this hour of night.
01:40:46.755 --> 01:40:48.083
Maybe I only imagined
I heard a sound.
01:41:17.702 --> 01:41:18.901
Hoichi!
01:41:36.847 --> 01:41:37.961
Hoichi!
01:41:40.225 --> 01:41:42.099
Who's calling?
01:41:47.941 --> 01:41:49.684
I'm blind.
01:41:49.985 --> 01:41:52.357
I've not been living here long.
01:41:53.947 --> 01:41:58.276
I thought somebody was in the
garden, but I was not sure.
01:41:59.244 --> 01:42:00.822
Pardon me.
01:42:01.288 --> 01:42:02.698
Forgive me.
01:42:09.379 --> 01:42:10.921
Nothing to fear.
01:42:13.008 --> 01:42:15.333
I'm stopping near this temple
01:42:16.553 --> 01:42:20.302
and have been sent here
with a message.
01:42:23.226 --> 01:42:26.346
My present lord, a person of
exceedingly high rank
01:42:26.938 --> 01:42:31.399
is now staying at Akamagahara
with his numerous attendants.
01:42:31.943 --> 01:42:35.312
He wanted to view a scene
of the battle of Dan-no-ura
01:42:35.572 --> 01:42:37.114
so we went there today.
01:42:41.578 --> 01:42:45.410
Now, my lord heard of your skill
in reciting
01:42:45.624 --> 01:42:47.866
the story of the battle.
01:42:48.460 --> 01:42:51.710
They say you even surpass
your teacher.
01:42:52.130 --> 01:42:54.835
So he desires to hear
your performance.
01:42:55.717 --> 01:43:00.960
Take your biwa and come with me
to our house at once.
01:43:02.599 --> 01:43:05.304
It's very kind of him.
01:43:08.230 --> 01:43:10.555
But I'm afraid I'm not
good enough.
01:43:11.233 --> 01:43:15.776
You wouldn't disobey his
commands, would you?
01:43:21.326 --> 01:43:25.276
I believe your lord is a very
noble person.
01:43:25.664 --> 01:43:29.364
Yes. Usually you couldn't be
in his presence.
01:43:30.752 --> 01:43:32.330
It's good fortune.
01:44:00.407 --> 01:44:01.949
Open the gate!
01:44:58.840 --> 01:45:00.833
Someone in there!
01:45:01.802 --> 01:45:03.545
I've brought Hoichi!
01:45:34.584 --> 01:45:35.995
Take your shoes off now.
01:46:43.236 --> 01:46:44.778
Another dead one?
01:46:45.322 --> 01:46:46.946
The tide washed him back
01:46:57.167 --> 01:46:59.206
Another ghost ship?
01:46:59.503 --> 01:47:01.661
I saw wills o' the wisp last night.
01:47:16.853 --> 01:47:17.932
Yasaku!
01:47:18.939 --> 01:47:20.137
Good morning.
01:47:29.950 --> 01:47:31.148
Hoichi?
01:47:31.535 --> 01:47:33.159
He isn't in.
01:47:33.870 --> 01:47:35.115
Not back yet?
01:47:35.372 --> 01:47:36.368
No.
01:47:36.790 --> 01:47:41.582
Is it true that none of you knew
when he left last night?
01:47:41.920 --> 01:47:47.045
Yes. I thought
he had gone to bed.
01:48:11.408 --> 01:48:13.614
Another ship sank last night.
01:48:14.035 --> 01:48:14.953
Whose?
01:48:14.990 --> 01:48:16.946
Gon-emon's. He went out fishing.
01:48:17.164 --> 01:48:19.737
His family came here
to request a service.
01:48:20.667 --> 01:48:21.830
Is that so?
01:48:21.918 --> 01:48:23.543
I told the Priest.
01:48:23.879 --> 01:48:27.793
I see. I'm very sorry.
01:48:28.967 --> 01:48:31.636
Does a ghost ship really exist?
01:48:31.928 --> 01:48:33.387
It seems so.
01:48:33.972 --> 01:48:37.008
I haven't seen it. I wonder if it
really exists. Don't you, Donkai?
01:48:37.476 --> 01:48:41.723
It exists only for those
who believe it does.
01:48:43.148 --> 01:48:45.390
You make me confused again.
01:48:45.650 --> 01:48:47.061
I really believe it.
01:48:47.569 --> 01:48:48.904
Don't fool me.
01:48:48.940 --> 01:48:51.442
I'm serious. You always...
01:48:51.698 --> 01:48:53.027
I'm serious, too.
01:48:53.408 --> 01:48:55.033
Is Hoichi back?
01:48:55.285 --> 01:48:57.990
Yes. Are you going out?
01:49:01.041 --> 01:49:02.868
How is he?
01:49:03.710 --> 01:49:06.462
It seems he's sleeping
in his room.
01:49:06.755 --> 01:49:08.794
What? When did he...?
01:49:09.758 --> 01:49:11.466
None of us knows when
he came back.
01:49:12.552 --> 01:49:13.667
I see.
01:49:19.226 --> 01:49:21.514
He must have had
a pleasant night.
01:49:21.895 --> 01:49:24.053
I told him to take care
of the house.
01:49:24.564 --> 01:49:26.224
What an untrustworthy fellow!
01:49:26.858 --> 01:49:31.401
Well, I must get ready
for a service for Gon-emon.
01:49:32.239 --> 01:49:34.445
We'll have another wake tonight.
01:49:36.493 --> 01:49:38.402
It'll be hot today.
01:50:44.895 --> 01:50:48.892
How I was scared! You're sitting
in the dark like that.
01:50:49.566 --> 01:50:51.060
I wondered who it was.
01:50:52.360 --> 01:50:53.819
What's the matter?
01:50:54.321 --> 01:50:56.029
"What's the matter?"
01:50:56.448 --> 01:51:01.193
Everybody's out. Matsuzo went
home today, so I'm alone.
01:51:01.453 --> 01:51:03.611
And I thought you were asleep.
01:51:03.830 --> 01:51:05.704
I took you for a ghost.
01:51:06.374 --> 01:51:08.830
Oh, I got soaking wet.
01:51:10.045 --> 01:51:11.669
I'm so sorry.
01:51:12.422 --> 01:51:15.957
That's all right. You didn't
eat your breakfast yet.
01:51:18.720 --> 01:51:21.638
Where on earth were you
last night?
01:51:23.850 --> 01:51:29.141
Your breakfast is ready here.
It hasn't gone bad.
01:51:29.397 --> 01:51:30.560
Now eat it.
01:51:31.900 --> 01:51:34.521
The boiled eggplants for supper
are there too.
01:51:34.903 --> 01:51:36.362
Thank you.
01:51:47.958 --> 01:51:52.785
Donkai and the Priest were very
anxious about you.
01:51:53.839 --> 01:51:57.255
Where did you go and what
did you do?
01:51:57.467 --> 01:51:59.507
Were they that anxious?
01:51:59.761 --> 01:52:02.383
You should have known that.
"That anxious"?
01:52:03.390 --> 01:52:06.806
You're too young to stay out
all night, aren't you?
01:52:07.519 --> 01:52:10.970
So you have a girl now,
is that it?
01:52:11.523 --> 01:52:13.397
Of course not.
01:52:14.401 --> 01:52:17.355
I went out because I remembered
some business I had to attend.
01:52:18.238 --> 01:52:19.436
Really?
01:52:21.700 --> 01:52:25.614
Your girl must be blind too.
01:52:25.829 --> 01:52:33.207
So you make love groping for
each other like this.
01:53:18.006 --> 01:53:19.251
Hoichi!
01:53:22.302 --> 01:53:25.967
It's the time we promised.
I've come to take you.
01:53:26.306 --> 01:53:27.088
Yes, sir.
01:53:30.435 --> 01:53:32.227
You didn't tell anybody?
01:53:33.563 --> 01:53:35.686
No, I didn't.
01:53:43.615 --> 01:53:45.489
Don't say a word about it.
01:53:46.284 --> 01:53:48.657
I understand.
01:55:33.725 --> 01:55:35.219
This is very good.
01:55:38.313 --> 01:55:42.690
These rice cakes and wine
are all I brought from home.
01:55:44.111 --> 01:55:47.111
Give some to Hoichi.
01:55:48.115 --> 01:55:49.573
He'll get up soon.
01:55:50.492 --> 01:55:53.659
He'll be hungry
when the sun sets.
01:55:54.913 --> 01:55:58.496
Oh? What does he do
during the day?
01:56:00.293 --> 01:56:02.333
He sleeps like a dead man.
01:56:02.629 --> 01:56:04.622
He's very pale.
01:56:06.174 --> 01:56:08.593
It's because of the shining
green leaves.
01:56:08.317 --> 01:56:09.194
No.
01:56:10.658 --> 01:56:12.318
And...
01:56:52.700 --> 01:56:54.408
Who's there?
01:57:01.125 --> 01:57:02.999
Oh, it's you, Yasaku.
01:57:06.797 --> 01:57:08.173
Oh, Matsuzo!
01:57:09.216 --> 01:57:11.090
When did you come back?
01:57:12.887 --> 01:57:17.264
You were asleep when I came
back so I didn't wake you.
01:57:18.059 --> 01:57:20.217
I'm afraid you're sick.
01:57:20.686 --> 01:57:21.635
No.
01:57:23.064 --> 01:57:27.891
It's this hot climate,
that's all. I'm all right.
01:57:47.255 --> 01:57:48.879
Well,
01:57:49.924 --> 01:57:54.220
I've been thinking
I must ask you
01:57:54.256 --> 01:57:58.264
where you go every night.
01:57:59.141 --> 01:58:05.096
Why do you stay out nights, eh?
01:58:06.649 --> 01:58:11.726
Tell me the reason why
you leave the temple
01:58:13.281 --> 01:58:20.244
every night at so late an hour.
01:58:20.746 --> 01:58:25.704
What do you do while you're
away from the temple?
01:58:27.128 --> 01:58:30.995
Everybody is suspicious of you.
01:58:31.257 --> 01:58:36.500
But I've told them
we could trust you.
01:58:38.180 --> 01:58:44.468
At any rate, to go out blind
and alone is dangerous.
01:58:45.146 --> 01:58:49.808
I could have had Matsuzo or
Yasaku accompany you.
01:58:50.839 --> 01:58:55.216
Where have you been going?
01:58:55.927 --> 01:58:58.383
Won't you tell me?
01:59:01.475 --> 01:59:03.099
Forgive me.
01:59:03.518 --> 01:59:06.009
It's nothing serious.
01:59:06.980 --> 01:59:09.815
I remembered some business
I had to do.
01:59:10.901 --> 01:59:15.693
So I went out late at night.
I'll be careful from now on.
01:59:15.947 --> 01:59:17.691
What is it?
01:59:18.825 --> 01:59:20.734
Nothing really.
01:59:22.871 --> 01:59:27.414
I'm sorry I worried you.
01:59:27.876 --> 01:59:29.156
I see.
02:00:07.249 --> 02:00:09.740
Priest!
Priest!
02:00:12.879 --> 02:00:16.580
Priest!
Priest!
02:00:20.887 --> 02:00:22.465
Yasaku, what happened?
02:00:22.889 --> 02:00:23.719
Hoichi...
02:00:24.015 --> 02:00:25.474
What's the matter with him?
02:00:25.934 --> 02:00:27.725
He went out again just now.
02:00:28.103 --> 02:00:33.690
Went out? What are you waiting
for? Follow him immediately!
02:00:34.151 --> 02:00:39.062
Go with Matsuzo.
Don't let him find you. Hurry!
02:00:48.540 --> 02:00:50.248
Take this. Hurry!
02:00:50.417 --> 02:00:51.579
And Matsuzo?
02:00:51.835 --> 02:00:53.578
Come on, hurry!
02:00:53.837 --> 02:00:54.952
I can't light it.
02:00:55.130 --> 02:00:56.672
Better get blind. Then you
wouldn't need light.
02:00:56.965 --> 02:00:59.171
- Hurry!
- You go first.
02:01:02.179 --> 02:01:02.759
But it's dark.
02:01:03.013 --> 02:01:05.219
Of course. Night is never bright.
02:01:08.852 --> 02:01:09.967
The thunders!
02:01:10.187 --> 02:01:14.231
Never mind! Go now!
Matsuzo!
02:01:49.101 --> 02:01:50.180
Yasaku!
02:01:50.519 --> 02:01:51.514
Matsuzo!
02:01:58.318 --> 02:02:00.856
What are you waiting for?
Go and get him!
02:02:11.373 --> 02:02:13.365
Where'd he go?
02:02:14.209 --> 02:02:15.489
Over there?
02:02:15.794 --> 02:02:17.917
He can't be very far.
02:02:18.213 --> 02:02:20.289
Go that way.
02:02:22.509 --> 02:02:24.051
Run!
02:03:25.071 --> 02:03:26.566
Yasaku!
02:03:34.664 --> 02:03:37.416
Yasaku, you must
come with me!
02:03:56.228 --> 02:03:57.259
Matsuzo!
02:05:02.127 --> 02:05:05.412
His Majesty wants you to be
at home.
02:05:06.089 --> 02:05:07.120
Yes, Your Majesty.
02:05:09.843 --> 02:05:12.630
You play the biwa beautifully.
02:05:14.514 --> 02:05:16.056
And you recite the long
story of Heike
02:05:16.308 --> 02:05:19.392
that consists of one hundred
songs every night.
02:05:19.644 --> 02:05:23.096
His Majesty is highly pleased.
02:05:25.567 --> 02:05:28.521
We're very glad too.
02:05:31.573 --> 02:05:33.862
Thank you very much.
02:05:34.826 --> 02:05:36.866
As I told you
02:05:37.537 --> 02:05:42.246
there are nineteen secret songs
and five secret poems
02:05:42.459 --> 02:05:46.159
besides the main story.
02:05:48.965 --> 02:05:51.456
It takes many nights to
perform all of them.
02:05:51.718 --> 02:05:54.553
I'd like to chant the part
you like most tonight.
02:06:00.352 --> 02:06:01.763
He is right.
02:06:03.146 --> 02:06:05.103
The battle of Dan-no-ura.
02:06:06.024 --> 02:06:09.938
That is the most moving part
of the story.
02:06:11.488 --> 02:06:15.651
The chant of the last battle.
02:06:16.159 --> 02:06:19.030
Of Dan-no-ura.
02:06:26.503 --> 02:06:31.794
Then, Hoichi, chant the battle
of Dan-no-ura.
02:06:33.593 --> 02:06:34.756
Certainly.
02:08:41.555 --> 02:08:45.089
Let's go home, Matsuzo.
02:08:46.268 --> 02:08:47.678
It's terrible.
02:08:48.437 --> 02:08:51.188
That kid makes us suffer.
02:08:52.190 --> 02:08:53.898
It's unfair.
02:09:13.003 --> 02:09:20.963
They shot arrows at each other
for a time
02:09:22.262 --> 02:09:26.723
Then the Genji ships moved in
the rapid current
02:09:27.017 --> 02:09:35.392
and sailed into the middle of
the Heike ships
02:10:10.393 --> 02:10:17.310
The ships of both clans
crossed one another
02:10:17.651 --> 02:10:28.370
and covered the surface
of the channel
02:10:28.406 --> 02:10:33.495
like dead leaves carpet
the waves of a river
02:10:57.732 --> 02:11:14.662
...And then
General Tomomori proclaimed
02:11:15.876 --> 02:11:22.329
in front of his assembled soldiers:
02:11:23.300 --> 02:11:29.385
Depends upon this battle.
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There should be no regrets in life.
02:11:38.690 --> 02:11:44.645
Fight like the good men you are!
02:11:45.614 --> 02:11:49.742
Think of nothing else!"
02:11:50.494 --> 02:11:56.995
"The fate of the Heiké clan
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Shouted General Tomomori repeatedly.
02:13:37.142 --> 02:13:53.489
"A born emperor you may be",
said Lady Nii,
02:13:56.036 --> 02:14:05.586
"your day is done."
02:14:08.757 --> 02:14:20.763
The heavens will welcome you,
02:14:23.814 --> 02:14:31.643
call the holy name of Buddha
02:14:33.240 --> 02:14:45.245
There is a capital beneath the waves
and there you will be crowned
02:14:45.460 --> 02:14:48.663
Hoichi!
Hoichi!
02:14:58.348 --> 02:15:00.804
Hoichi!
02:15:24.958 --> 02:15:33.713
Holding the infant emperor
in her arms
02:15:34.509 --> 02:15:43.596
she throws herself into
the deep sea
02:15:43.852 --> 02:15:45.227
Hoichi!
02:15:45.729 --> 02:15:46.927
Hoichi!
02:16:05.791 --> 02:16:06.739
Hoichi!
02:16:06.875 --> 02:16:08.666
What are you doing?
02:16:08.919 --> 02:16:10.792
Don't interrupt me before
this distinguished assembly!
02:16:11.046 --> 02:16:11.828
What are you saying?
02:16:12.089 --> 02:16:13.251
You must be mad.
02:16:13.507 --> 02:16:14.752
You're bewitched!
02:16:15.133 --> 02:16:15.880
Let's go home!
02:16:16.259 --> 02:16:19.593
You'll be dead if you stay here.
02:16:20.764 --> 02:16:21.672
Let's go.
02:16:21.723 --> 02:16:23.265
You'll be punished
if you interfere.
02:16:23.517 --> 02:16:25.059
Let go of me!
02:16:25.519 --> 02:16:27.262
Listen to us. Come home!
02:16:28.772 --> 02:16:29.768
Let go of me!
02:16:32.651 --> 02:16:33.481
Leave me alone.
02:16:33.735 --> 02:16:35.858
Come home! It's the Priest's order!
02:16:38.240 --> 02:16:39.568
Let go of me!
02:16:39.825 --> 02:16:41.023
Are you mad?
02:16:42.494 --> 02:16:43.443
Let me go!
02:17:56.401 --> 02:18:01.229
Why didn't you tell me
this sooner?
02:18:02.657 --> 02:18:03.653
Poor boy!
02:18:06.536 --> 02:18:10.866
You're now in great danger.
02:18:14.294 --> 02:18:17.046
They must have wanted you
because
02:18:17.422 --> 02:18:19.794
you have wonderful skills
in music.
02:18:20.383 --> 02:18:23.835
You've not been visiting
a house
02:18:24.262 --> 02:18:26.172
but a cemetery.
02:18:28.308 --> 02:18:32.222
That place is the home
of the spirits
02:18:32.479 --> 02:18:34.306
of the Heike samurai.
02:18:34.981 --> 02:18:39.145
You've been passing your nights
among tombs.
02:18:41.363 --> 02:18:47.199
By this time you must be
aware of that. Understand?
02:18:48.829 --> 02:18:53.122
You were sitting before the tomb
of Emperor Antoku last night.
02:18:57.003 --> 02:19:03.291
It has all been a vast illusion
02:19:04.845 --> 02:19:08.261
except for the calling
of the dead.
02:19:08.682 --> 02:19:12.300
Then, it was the spirit of the
dead that came here?
02:19:12.561 --> 02:19:18.017
Yes. It was in fact that the
spirit of the dead came.
02:19:19.818 --> 02:19:27.695
You have put yourself in
their power.
02:19:29.703 --> 02:19:33.783
If you obey them again,
02:19:35.375 --> 02:19:38.578
they'll tear you in pieces.
02:19:41.173 --> 02:19:47.293
But in any event they'd have
destroyed you sooner or later.
02:19:50.182 --> 02:19:55.176
Will the spirit come again
tonight?
02:22:43.605 --> 02:22:44.768
Tonight,
02:22:45.690 --> 02:22:47.897
as soon as we go away
02:22:48.443 --> 02:22:52.061
you must seat yourself
outside and wait.
02:22:53.281 --> 02:22:57.149
Then the spirit will call you.
02:23:00.789 --> 02:23:06.459
But, whatever may happen,
do not answer.
02:23:07.921 --> 02:23:09.249
I understand.
02:23:09.423 --> 02:23:11.380
And do not move.
02:23:11.716 --> 02:23:13.424
I understand.
02:23:13.844 --> 02:23:17.841
Say nothing and sit still
02:23:19.224 --> 02:23:22.474
as if meditating.
02:23:23.562 --> 02:23:24.427
Yes.
02:23:24.980 --> 02:23:26.355
Understood?
02:23:28.567 --> 02:23:32.730
Should you move a muscle
or utter a cry,
02:23:33.029 --> 02:23:36.529
you will be torn to pieces.
02:23:37.492 --> 02:23:41.407
To get rid of the spirits,
you must stay calm
02:23:41.705 --> 02:23:44.990
and never call for help.
02:23:45.292 --> 02:23:49.788
Even if you call out,
no-one will be able to help you.
02:23:50.088 --> 02:23:53.422
You mustn't speak.
Alright?
02:23:54.760 --> 02:23:55.708
Yes
02:23:56.636 --> 02:23:58.759
If you follow this advice,
02:23:59.055 --> 02:24:01.926
there may be hope for you.
02:24:04.394 --> 02:24:07.644
I won't move. I won't cry.
02:24:08.565 --> 02:24:09.728
Understand?
02:24:11.568 --> 02:24:14.355
Whatever may happen?
02:24:15.655 --> 02:24:16.651
I won't.
02:24:17.657 --> 02:24:21.489
Donkai, you've written
the holy text upon his body?
02:24:23.079 --> 02:24:27.907
On his entire body,
from head to toe.
02:24:29.628 --> 02:24:30.790
Good.
02:25:22.305 --> 02:25:25.057
Help me, Buddha!
02:26:04.347 --> 02:26:05.546
Hoichi!
02:26:10.061 --> 02:26:11.342
Hoichi!
02:26:24.201 --> 02:26:26.074
Hoichi!
02:26:33.460 --> 02:26:36.829
No answer? That won't do!
02:26:37.506 --> 02:26:41.550
I must see where the fellow is.
02:27:18.255 --> 02:27:21.339
Here is the biwa.
02:27:29.266 --> 02:27:32.286
But of the biwa player I see...
only two ears!
02:27:32.287 --> 02:27:36.063
That explains why
he didn't answer.
02:27:47.033 --> 02:27:49.738
He had no mouth to answer with.
02:27:50.203 --> 02:27:52.362
There is nothing left of him
but his ears.
02:27:56.042 --> 02:27:59.625
This is very strange.
02:28:01.006 --> 02:28:02.583
I will take those ears
to my lord
02:28:04.176 --> 02:28:08.588
to prove his commands
have been obeyed
02:28:09.222 --> 02:28:15.061
as much as it's possible.
02:28:15.098 --> 02:28:17.434
It's blood!
02:29:56.204 --> 02:29:56.986
Priest!
02:30:00.834 --> 02:30:01.949
ウォルマート骨髄！
02:30:09.468 --> 02:30:11.176
It leads to the rear gate.
02:30:20.437 --> 02:30:21.386
Hoichi!
02:30:23.857 --> 02:30:25.232
Hoichi!
02:30:28.069 --> 02:30:29.612
Are you there?
02:30:30.197 --> 02:30:31.905
Hoichi!
02:30:51.968 --> 02:30:54.175
My goodness!
02:30:58.016 --> 02:30:58.383
Hurry, clean it!
02:30:58.683 --> 02:30:59.181
Yes.
02:31:01.186 --> 02:31:03.095
What happened to Hoichi?
02:31:07.192 --> 02:31:08.900
His ears were torn off.
02:31:09.194 --> 02:31:10.225
What?
02:31:10.737 --> 02:31:11.852
His ears?
02:31:31.007 --> 02:31:32.502
But why the ears?
02:31:33.593 --> 02:31:35.301
Both of them torn off?
02:31:35.512 --> 02:31:37.635
- Donkai!
- Yes.
02:31:40.434 --> 02:31:42.841
Does the ghost like ears?
02:31:46.731 --> 02:31:48.356
He should eat the ears of a
dried cuttlefish instead.
02:31:52.404 --> 02:31:55.524
It's our fault.
02:31:56.241 --> 02:31:58.910
I thought I wrote everywhere
on his body.
02:31:59.578 --> 02:32:03.160
We forgot to write the holy text
on his ears.
02:32:03.623 --> 02:32:04.904
I'm sorry.
02:32:05.709 --> 02:32:11.747
It's too late.
Ears don't grow again.
02:32:16.303 --> 02:32:22.056
It was wrong of me not to make
sure you had done it.
02:32:22.934 --> 02:32:25.307
It's my grievous fault.
02:32:26.021 --> 02:32:29.472
I never imagined it would
take his ears away.
02:32:30.192 --> 02:32:33.228
Well, it can't be helped now.
02:32:34.070 --> 02:32:37.024
We can only try to heal
his wounds.
02:32:37.449 --> 02:32:38.398
Yes.
02:32:41.369 --> 02:32:42.828
But cheer up.
02:32:45.123 --> 02:32:50.165
The danger is now over. His ears
were a trade off for his life.
02:32:51.213 --> 02:32:54.629
Then, we won't see
those visitors again?
02:32:56.343 --> 02:32:58.299
They'll come no more.
02:33:10.315 --> 02:33:17.563
We wish to hear the famous
Hoichi-the-Earless play the biwa.
02:33:19.533 --> 02:33:24.076
My lord heard of the
strange story.
02:33:24.538 --> 02:33:26.910
He will pay Hoichi generously.
02:33:27.124 --> 02:33:31.453
By his order, I've come
to take him with me.
02:33:50.251 --> 02:33:52.160
- He's here again.
- What?
02:33:52.628 --> 02:33:54.122
With attendants!
02:34:39.425 --> 02:34:41.881
A noblewoman came also
with her attendants.
02:34:42.261 --> 02:34:45.013
I can't tell if they're real.
02:34:45.389 --> 02:34:47.548
Maybe the ghost is among them.
02:34:50.811 --> 02:34:56.601
Hoichi. You'd better refuse them.
You have so many offers.
02:35:00.071 --> 02:35:01.233
No.
02:35:02.031 --> 02:35:03.442
I'll play the biwa
02:35:06.077 --> 02:35:07.950
as long as I live.
02:35:19.006 --> 02:35:24.345
I'll play to console
those sorrowful spirits
02:35:25.805 --> 02:35:28.474
and make them rest in peace.
02:36:50.681 --> 02:36:57.894
Many noble persons came to the
temple with large gifts of money
02:36:58.814 --> 02:37:02.065
so that Hoichi-the-Earless
became a wealthy man
02:37:48.114 --> 02:37:50.865
The Year 1900.
02:37:53.828 --> 02:37:57.956
Now, in old Japanese books,
02:37:58.249 --> 02:38:00.621
there have been
curiously preserved
02:38:01.294 --> 02:38:03.701
certain fragments of fiction
02:38:05.631 --> 02:38:10.756
Why were they left unfinished?
02:38:12.054 --> 02:38:15.470
Perhaps the writer was lazy
02:38:16.934 --> 02:38:20.683
Perhaps he had a quarrel
with the publisher
02:38:21.647 --> 02:38:26.356
Perhaps he was suddenly called
away from his little table
02:38:26.611 --> 02:38:28.817
and never came back
02:38:30.323 --> 02:38:34.735
Perhaps death stopped
his writing brush
02:38:35.077 --> 02:38:38.411
in the middle of a sentence
02:38:40.416 --> 02:38:45.161
But no mortal could ever tell
why
02:38:47.048 --> 02:38:50.880
I select a typical example
02:38:54.722 --> 02:38:58.091
It was today 220 years ago
02:38:58.309 --> 02:39:02.520
New Year Day of the
fourth Tenwa
02:39:03.689 --> 02:39:07.983
IN A CUP OF TEA
02:39:17.119 --> 02:39:21.447
It was when Lord Nakagawa Sado
paid a New Year's visit
02:39:23.751 --> 02:39:28.994
He stopped with his entourage
at a temple in Hongo
02:43:34.168 --> 02:43:36.042
You're on duty tonight.
02:43:38.339 --> 02:43:40.960
I'll relieve you in the morning.
02:43:41.217 --> 02:43:41.963
Yes.
02:45:36.749 --> 02:45:41.458
I'm Shikibu Heinai.
I met you today for the first time.
02:45:47.635 --> 02:45:51.086
You don't seem to recognise me.
02:46:30.636 --> 02:46:32.545
I don't recognise you.
02:46:33.139 --> 02:46:38.762
Will you tell me how you gained
entrance to this house?
02:46:40.980 --> 02:46:44.431
Ah, you don't recognise me!
02:46:44.900 --> 02:46:46.525
No, I don't.
02:46:46.944 --> 02:46:50.645
This house is strictly guarded
at all times.
02:46:51.449 --> 02:46:53.821
No one can enter unannounced.
02:46:55.494 --> 02:46:59.160
I don't understand why you
don't recognise me.
02:47:01.459 --> 02:47:04.413
This morning you dared
to wound me!
02:48:44.520 --> 02:48:46.347
Intruder!
02:48:51.402 --> 02:48:53.608
Come out, everybody!
02:48:58.451 --> 02:48:59.826
There's an intruder in the house!
02:49:36.405 --> 02:49:45.279
Kannai. No stranger was seen
entering or leaving the house.
02:49:45.957 --> 02:49:47.119
But I saw him.
02:49:47.416 --> 02:49:51.829
No one in his house has ever heard
of "Shikibu Heinai".
02:49:52.171 --> 02:49:53.499
Anyway I thrust him.
02:49:53.881 --> 02:49:54.545
To death?
02:49:54.799 --> 02:49:56.423
Strangely, no.
02:49:57.843 --> 02:50:00.595
We can't even find
a stain of blood.
02:50:01.055 --> 02:50:02.218
Kannai!
02:50:03.057 --> 02:50:06.722
Well, it sounds strange, but he
went through the wall soundlessly
02:50:08.187 --> 02:50:09.468
Through the wall?
02:50:10.690 --> 02:50:12.766
Do you mean he vanished
into the wall?
02:50:13.401 --> 02:50:14.147
Yes.
02:50:15.278 --> 02:50:16.191
Soundlessly?
02:50:16.445 --> 02:50:17.477
Yes.
02:50:19.532 --> 02:50:22.237
That explains why
we couldn't find him.
02:50:23.452 --> 02:50:25.326
After all, he vanished
into the wall.
02:50:29.083 --> 02:50:31.325
You're tired,
so you had a nightmare.
02:50:32.545 --> 02:50:34.253
No. I'm sure I saw him.
02:50:34.755 --> 02:50:36.415
Men! Men!
02:50:39.343 --> 02:50:42.380
Men! Where did the intruder go?
02:50:42.722 --> 02:50:44.002
Don't you know?
02:50:44.557 --> 02:50:46.431
He runs fast!
02:51:31.854 --> 02:51:35.353
Will you go to bed, Brother?
02:51:36.943 --> 02:51:38.816
It's late.
02:51:42.365 --> 02:51:44.274
Umm. How are Mother and Father?
02:51:45.284 --> 02:51:47.360
They're asleep now.
02:51:51.874 --> 02:51:55.243
Will you tell the servant
to bring wine?
02:51:59.632 --> 02:52:02.301
Are you still worried
about last night?
02:52:03.386 --> 02:52:07.134
No. I'm off duty tonight.
02:52:07.348 --> 02:52:09.424
I want to sleep well.
02:52:27.868 --> 02:52:30.656
Sir...
02:52:45.428 --> 02:52:47.052
What is it?
02:52:47.305 --> 02:52:50.222
We have guests, sir.
02:52:50.474 --> 02:52:51.174
What?
02:52:53.561 --> 02:52:54.426
Who?
02:52:54.979 --> 02:52:55.844
Where?
02:52:56.105 --> 02:52:57.350
At the front.
02:52:59.066 --> 02:53:00.442
At this hour of night?
02:53:02.945 --> 02:53:04.280
What do they want?
02:53:04.316 --> 02:53:09.820
Well, a little conversation
with you, sir.
02:53:11.412 --> 02:53:13.737
Didn't they give their names?
02:53:14.332 --> 02:53:17.783
No. There are three of them.
02:54:10.888 --> 02:54:12.928
I'm Kannai.
02:54:17.728 --> 02:54:20.184
I'm Matsuoka Bungo.
02:54:21.440 --> 02:54:23.350
I'm Dobashi Kyuzo.
02:54:25.319 --> 02:54:27.775
I'm Okamura Heiroku.
02:54:28.531 --> 02:54:31.200
We're retainers of
Shikibu Heinai.
02:54:31.367 --> 02:54:33.823
Shikibu... Heinai!
02:54:34.662 --> 02:54:35.408
Yes.
02:54:37.456 --> 02:54:39.947
When our master visited you
last night
02:54:40.459 --> 02:54:42.867
you struck him with a sword.
02:54:43.838 --> 02:54:45.712
He was hurt badly
02:54:45.923 --> 02:54:49.375
and went to a hot spring
to tend to his wound.
02:54:49.969 --> 02:54:51.593
I sympathise.
02:54:54.015 --> 02:54:58.226
But on the 16th day of the
next month he will return.
02:54:59.103 --> 02:55:03.017
And he will then repay you
for the injury done to him...
02:59:00.219 --> 02:59:01.250
"And..."
02:59:03.806 --> 02:59:06.842
Here the old narrative
breaks off.
02:59:31.792 --> 02:59:34.034
Well, I didn't see him go out.
02:59:58.861 --> 03:00:01.779
He has been writing all day.
03:00:01.864 --> 03:00:03.821
I made him hurry.
03:00:04.575 --> 03:00:06.034
I'm the publisher.
03:00:06.702 --> 03:00:12.491
Oh. I never thought he went out.
03:00:13.000 --> 03:00:13.996
Well...
03:00:15.127 --> 03:00:17.915
I just dropped in to say
New Year's greetings to him.
03:00:18.172 --> 03:00:19.750
- Why don't you come in and wait?
- I will.
03:00:49.495 --> 03:00:53.196
I can imagine several
possible endings.
03:00:55.001 --> 03:00:58.535
But none of them would
satisfy your imagination.
03:01:00.506 --> 03:01:03.756
I prefer to let you attempt
to decide for yourself
03:01:04.427 --> 03:01:09.385
the probable consequence
of swallowing a soul.
03:01:11.934 --> 03:01:14.472
The man who swallowed a soul...
03:02:54.770 --> 03:03:04.155
by: Masoud GR
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