Naritsugu: How much longer to Nakatsugawa?
( aide speaks )
Tell me how far!
( Hanbei stammers )
Naritsugu: What's the matter?
Hanbei: Oh no!
- ( neighing ) - My Lord!
( troops shouting )
Turn back! My Lord!
( fizzing )
( men screaming )
What fun. I'm going in, Hanbei!
My Lord! Follow him!
Ishizuka: Hey!
You can get past this way.
This way, this way.
( all shouting )
( groans )
(yelling )
(grunts)
( shouts )
(grunting )
( mooing )
Shinzaemon.
I presume you are the Akashi entourage of Lord Naritsugu.
By the order of His Shogun's subject, Shinzaemon...
we commemorate your passage with arrows!
Hanbei: My Lord!
Leave the horses. Protect our Lord.
- ( gasps ) - ( arrow whips )
(snaps)
( all shouting )
( shouting continues )
My Lord.
Come this way.
Please wait.
Secure the interior.
- Huh? - Secure the interior.
Hey, secure the interior.
( gasps )
( all screaming )
( screaming )
(coughing )
(men coughing )
Enough petty tricks.
Only 130 left!
What you paid for my life...
was a real bargain.
The enemy is not large! Don't panic.
Show them the spirit of Akashi samurai!
Trade your lives to protect our Lord.
( all shouting )
My Lord!
Lord!
TOTAL MASSACRE
Kill! Kill them all!
(men yelling)
(grunting )
( howls )
(grunting )
Ogura!
Samurai: Fire? No, no!
( screaming )
( screams )
( panting softly )
My Lord! I found a way out!
No! It's a trap.
My Lord.
Come!
(groaning )
( men shouting )
Hioki!
Guide: Go, go!
This way, my Lord.
( flames crackling )
Look.
Ogura, kill the men that get past me.
Don't leave one alive.
Yes, master.
Kill!
( men shouting )
(whimpers )
( shouting )
( screaming )
( gasps )
( men shouting )
Hirayama: Retreat.
Ogura!
Koyata: Your samurai brawls are crazy fun.
Ishizuka: it's no brawl!
Why are you samurai so arrogant?
Why are you samurai...
so arrogant?
Higuchi, you okay?
Thanks.
Hioki!
( groans )
( men shout)
Hioki...
you fought well. A true samurai.
( men shouting )
Shinzaemon.
Higuchi!
- Go! - Finish the job.
- ( groans ) - Otake: Ishizuka!
Ishizuka!
( Ishizuka groans ) Otake.
Our mission...
finish it!
Shinzaemon!
(yells )
( man screams )
Mitsuhashi!
( gasps )
Damn!
Mitsuhashi!
( groans )
(whimpering )
( growls )
( explodes )
( splashing )
(yells )
( hysterical laughter )
( laughing continues )
You fool!
- Hanbei. - ( Hanbei speaks )
You think the age of war was like this?
Perhaps.
It's magnificent.
With death comes gratitude for life.
If a man has lived in vain, then how trivial his life is.
Oh, Hanbei.
Something wonderful has come to my mind.
( Hanbei speaks )
Once I'm on the Shogun's council,
let's bring back the age of war.
( shouting )
(snarls)
(yells )
I'm Saheita Kuranaga.
Lord Naritsugu...
I've come for your life.
Sir Hanbei...
protect our Lord.
(men murmur)
(men yelling)
Comrade: Kuranaga!
My Lord!
(gagging, groaning)
(groaning )
(gasping )
(grunting )
( groans )
( laughing )
( laughter continues )
( laughter stops )
( faintly ) Master...
( men shouting )
Who are you?
You're no samurai!
So what?
Do only samurai matter in this world?
I thought samurai would be fun...
(grunts)
but you bore me.
You're useless, even more useless in great numbers.
( thumps )
(groaning )
This man speaks the truth.
His reward is my short sword.
If we can get past that...
Remain focused. Victory is ours!
Keep our Lord safe. We'll win!
( men cheering )
(wood cracking, crashing )
( flames crackling )
( birds chirping )
My Lord!
Let's run.
Hanbei, victory is not yet ours.
(yelling )
Shinza.
Hanbei, I have no qualms with you.
You will not pass.
I'll trade my life to protect my Lord.
I must do what must be done.
Are you so hungry for my Lord's life?
Yes!
I gambled my life in this senseless war of power and politics.
If he joins the Shogun's council...
you know disaster will befall the people!
- Am I wrong? - So what then?
Both you and I were born samurai.
Ours is not to wonder why.
Ours is...
to obey our fate and die.
Shinzaemon: If you were my ally...
if you were not an Akashi retainer...
wouldn't our task be easier?
Don't lecture me!
No matter how low I go, Hanbei Kito is a samurai!
I won't hand over my Lord's head so easily.
Shinza...
to pass, you'll have to kill me.
That I shall do.
(wipes )
Fight!
Such elegance in fighting one-on-one.
( sloshing )
(grunting )
How I missed crossing swords with you!
( panting ) Hanbei...
in the dojo, we were an even match.
(yells )
Hanbei...
see you in hell!
( rumbling )
( shouting )
Some call it elegance.
Some call it cruel and unfair.
I like it.
( panting softly )
How can you kick his head?
He gave his life for you!
Kick my head if you want.
For the Shogun, for the people, for the many who died untimely deaths...
for Uneme Makino and his wife...
for his father, Yukie Makino...
and for my men scattering Ochiai.
For that...
innocent, nameless young girl...
with severed arms and legs...
I shall take your life!
Ruling is convenient...
but only for rulers.
The people must live to serve.
Even so, a time comes when servants rise up against their Lords.
You're on top thanks to support from the bottom.
Shinzaemon: Don't you see?
Shinzaemon: Your mistake is believing
that your decorative blade is not just for show.
Nonsense. it's not for show!
Decoration is for show.
Be silent like the decorative man you are.
( screams ) Servant!
( muffled grunting )
How is this for show?
( Shinzaemon growls )
( gasps )
( growls )
Uncle!
( groans )
(whimpers ) Pain.
( laughs )
(sobs) It hurts!
That's unexpected.
Can you feel pain?
Am I dying?
Dying?
(sobs) I'm scared. So scared.
Scared.
(Crying ) Scared.
I don't want...
( laughs )
to die.
( bangs )
( gasps )
( screams ) I'm scared! I'm scared!
( Naritsugu retching )
My Lord... prepare yourself!
( gags )
( chokes ) So death comes for us all.
Allow me to thank you, Shinzaemon.
Of all the days of my life,
today has been the most exciting.
You're welcome!
( rumbles )
( groaning softly )
Shinzaemon: It's over.
The big gamble paid off.
( chuckles )
Shinrokuro...
being a samurai...
is truly a burden.
Do what you want...
with your life.
( buzzing )
(shouting )
Shinrokuro: Are you immortal?
You got the Lord's head without me?
Our fight is over.
That ain't no fun.
- You hurt? - Hmm? Oh...
Compared to fighting a wild bear, these wounds are nothing.
All in all...
I want my Upashi.
I don't like towns swarming with samurai.
I'll go home, sweep Upashi off her feet...
and live far away!
Live your life.
Till the next life!
What are you going to do?
Whatever I want. Been a samurai long enough.
Become a bandit.
The greatest bandit in Japan.
Jump ship to America, make love to women.
Now you're talking.
Say "hi" to Upashi for me.
Sure.
( faint splattering )
( blade scrapes )
(wood cracks, horse whinnies )
In May 1844,
it was reported to the Central Government...
that Lord Naritsugu fell ill and died.
Some 23 years later, the Shogunate system was abolished.
The modern Meiji era began.
( instrumental music playing )
Koji Yakusho
Takayuki Yamada
Yusuke Iseya
Ikki Sawamura
Arata Furuta
Sousuke Takaoka
Seiji Rukkaku
Ikki Namioka
Koen Kondo
Yuma Ishigaki
Masataka Kubota
Tsuyoshi Ihara
Hiroki Matsukata
Kazue Fukiishi - Mitsuki Tanimura
Takumi Saito - Shinnosuke Abe
Masaaki Uchino
Ken Mitsuishi
Ittoku Kishibe
Mikijiro Hira
Koshiro Matsumoto
Goro Inagaki
Masachika Ichimura
Directed by Takashi Miike
Subtitles by Christian Storms ripped by carrot/subscene.com