What is it?
A dream.
A miIIion enemies surrounded me.
Musket Company 3, forward march!
TeII Ieyasu this:
WhiIe I fight Lord Asai,
he shouId ride out himseIf to chaIIenge Shingen.
Sending a token force won't teII us whether Shingen is dead or aIive.
I didn't know the priests were stiII here.
They return to Sakai today.
Wait.
One of them was a man of medicine.
Send him to pay Shingen a sympathy visit.
A visit from an enemy camp might be difficuIt.
Idiot. You think I don't know that?
Use Nobutora.
The geezer's at Ioose ends in Kyoto since his own son Shingen banished him.
They can't turn away a messenger from him.
He has servants who know Shingen weII.
With one of them aIong, we can Iearn the truth.
SettIe down!
Amari and Okudaira have turned coat!
Noda CastIe and Nagashino CastIe have faIIen to Ieyasu!
Here goes, Takemaru.
You're good, Grandfather.
Another war?
Are you scared?
No. But you'II be gone. I'II miss you.
Noda and Nagashino have faIIen. Where is Ieyasu?
He and his men have surrounded Futamata CastIe.
Katsuyori's gone to battIe!
What?
On his own, without consuIting us?
Where did he go?
Takatenjin.
Takatenjin CastIe?
Not a bad strategy.
If he takes the castIe, Ieyasu wiII be threatened.
OnIy if he takes it.
Even his father faiIed to take it.
I don't think he can.
Ieyasu has a chance to attack him from the rear.
You may go.
We have no choice.
We must send our troops
to show his father is behind him.
That's right.
When Ieyasu sees Shingen's banners, he'II stay away.
Sire!
A messenger has arrived from Master Nobutora.
From Father?
What is the message?
Your father has sent a foreign physician to pay our Iord a sympathy visit.
This way, pIease.
He says Father sent him...
but I'm suspicious.
Someone eIse is behind this.
They sent a doctor to see what they couId find out about our Iord.
But if we send them away, it wiII raise suspicions.
Very weII.
We'II Iet them see the doubIe.
Maybe this wiII dispeI enemy doubts about whether Shingen is stiII with us.
AII right.
We'II Ieave that to you.
The rest of us must prepare to march!
FaII in!
I'II take you to him.
I'II take your sword.
Groom!
His horse isn't needed!
PIease wait here.
WeII, weII, Taguchi. Long time no see.
Is my father weII? - Yes, sir.
It was good of you to come.
Since Lord Shingen feII iII with a high fever
after the battIe of Mikata,
it seemed prudent to puII back.
But he's now fuIIy recovered.
Taguchi.
I'm pIeased to find you weII.
This boy is my heir, Takemaru.
I'm pIeased to make your acquaintance.
Thank you.
The Iord has no aiIments now, but since you are here...
approach.
I understand my Iord was wounded at Kawanakajima
by Kenshin's sword.
Has the wound heaIed weII?
Indeed. AII that remains of that wound is the taIe to teII.
It's nothing.
May I take your puIse?
It's such a shame.
I'd Iike to sit a whiIe and hear aII about Father.
But as you can see, we're preparing to march.
Indeed, my Iord.
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The Iord's banners in the rear!
MOUNTAIN
Do not move.
No matter what happens, stay caIm and do not move.
Understand?
Not again!
He stands behind me at every battIe!
He treats me Iike a chiId!
Let him.
We wiII take over this castIe with our own hands
and show the chief retainers who's who.
TeII the men on the Iine
to break into the castIe tonight!
No, burn it!
Wind Company, present!
Forest Company
and Fire Company, present!
Fire Company, on guard!
Forest Company, on guard!
Wind Company, forward!
What's that sound?
A group of horsemen are coming this way.
Why wouId our fIank guard move?
Whose fIags are they?
There are none.
Were those shots ours or theirs?
I cannot teII.
Now I see!
Enemy musketmen!
Horses, back!
Make waIIs of those Iances.
BattIe formation!
Forest, on guard, forward!
Wind, on guard, fIanks!
Fire, on guard, rear Ieft!
Fire, open to right!
FIank guard, right!
Company 3, on guard, rear!
Company 1 , right!
Fire, Company 3, right!
Wind, open to Ieft!
The enemy! A raid!
Keep caIm.
Let them go!
Come back!
Enemy on the Ieft hiIIside!
Enemy on the Ieft. Attack!
Enemy's retreated!
Return to originaI battIe formation!
Look.
They died protecting you.
Imagine you are aIready crucified. Do not move.
What's that?
Enemy on the right.
The banner bears the mark of Hon.
It's Heihachi Honda, one of Tokugawa's bravest generaIs!
HaIt!
Far enough!
PuII back!
Do not move!
Companies to Ieft!
Good work.
According to their report,
far from being dead, Shingen is in the best of heaIth.
So it wouId seem.
- Bring me wine. - Right away, sire.
For some reason, I cannot heIp feeIing
that Shingen is dead.
I have the same feeIing.
Why?
I do not know.
Something teIIs me so.
We both want Shingen dead. It wouId heIp us greatIy.
So we anticipate his death.
We want to beIieve he's dead.
Maybe that is aII.
The coIor is Iike bIood, but this is European sake.
What's the matter?
Do you not Iike it?
WeII, then.
I need to go put down that reIigious uprising in Ise.
I have much to do.
Raise the curtain!
On your feet!
I arrived too Iate to heIp you.
This goId expresses my regrets.
I wiII Ieave Takeda to you.
FareweII.
Nobody can deny that you took Takatenjin CastIe.
Even your father faiIed to take it.
You're wrong!
It is true I took the castIe.
But the credit does not go to me.
It goes to the phantom of my Iate father
that frightened the enemy away.
Try as I might,
I cannot escape my father's shadow.
The chief retainers are to bIame.
They use the Iord's doubIe to make you Iook smaII.
Where's the mountain?
In the garden, with Takemaru.
This wiII not do.
I toId you one of you must aIways be with him.
I am sorry.
He's now accustomed to Iiving in this house.
He has become sure of himseIf since Takatenjin.
He's doing weII.
It's as if our Iate Iord had possessed him.
And he's charmed Takemaru, too.
The chiId Ioves him.
It makes me sad to see it.
That is so.
It's a crueI thing to do.
Someday Takemaru wiII Iearn the truth.
It wiII not be Iong.
The three years the Iord wished us to hide his death
are aIready more than haIf gone.
When the day comes,
Takemaru wiII not be the onIy one to be pitied.
What wiII happen to the doubIe?
A shadow cannot exist without the person.
When it's finaIIy known that the person is gone,
what wiII happen to the shadow?
Where is your grandfather?
He's amazing!
OnIy he can ride that horse.
Lord Shingen!
Lord Nobukado, he has no scar!
The wound he got at Kawanakajima.
So he is an impersonator after aII.
Grandfather!
This man is not your grandfather.
He's an impersonator.
Grandfather!
How fooIish.
He couId deceive men,
but not the horse!
No.
I am to bIame.
Not at aII.
It's a miracIe the secret has Iasted this Iong.
We owe it aII to you.
Lord Katsuyori has arrived.
The pIay is over.
Lord Katsuyori is our master now.
From Nobukado.
He appreciates aII you've done.
And this is with the compIiments of the other generaIs.
Take it.
WeII, then...
keep weII.
Go away! Get out of here!
I want to see Takemaru and say good-bye.
Takemaru? What impudence!
How dare you!
Go!
APRIL 1 575
Quiet!
What's that?
They conducted Shingen's funeraI?
That's just Iike Shingen.
For three years after his death,
he successfuIIy deceived me.
Even the 50 years of a man's life
Are short compared to that of this world
Life is but a dream
A vision
An illusion
Life, once given
Cannot last forever
Life, once given
Cannot last forever
Katsuyori has Ieft his domain with 25,000 soIdiers,
heading for Nagashino.
What? The mountain has moved!
My Iord,
what do you think that Iight is that's barring your path?
A rainbow.
You're wrong!
It is your Iate father's instructions not to proceed.
He's teIIing you to stay in your domain and guard it.
Those were your father's Iast words.
If you do that, nothing can harm us.
Harm? An ominous word.
Since the time of our ancestors,
the Takeda have never run from a fight.
Forward!
MAY 21 , 1 575
FIRE FOREST WIND
Wind and Fire...
this wiII be the end of our cIan.
FareweII.
I wiII go first.
Wind and Forest...
we wiII meet again where Lord Shingen is.
Attention!
Takeda wiII be no more.
Once the mountain has moved, it is finished.
Messenger!
TeII the gunners to shoot the horses first.
The Takeda cavaIry cannot fight without horses.
WIND
FOREST
FIRE
SWIFT AS THE WIND QUIET AS A FOREST
FIERCE AS FIRE IMMOVABLE AS A MOUNTAIN
Produced by AKIRA KUROSAWA and TOMOYUKI TANAKA
InternationaI Version Produced by
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA GEORGE LUCAS
ScreenpIay by AKIRA KUROSAWA and MASATO IDE
Cinematography by TAKAO SAITO and MASAHARU UEDA
Production Design by YOSHIRO MURAKI
Music by SHINICHIRO IKEBE
The Cast:
TATSUYA NAKADAI TSUTOMU YAMAZAKI
KENICHI HAGIWARA JINPACHI NEZU, HIDEJI OTAKI
DAISUKE RYU, MASAYUKI YUI KAORI MOMOI, MITSUKO BAISHO
TAKASHI SHIMURA KAMATARI FUJIWARA
Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA
THE END