Sister! Sister!
Komachi!
Sister!
Sorry to worry you, Komachi.
All of the farmers have eaten this as they fought with the land.
We are given life by the land that we ravaged during the war.
When you think of their spirit,
we samurai can take this cup and raise a parting toast to them. What do you say?
You are as kindhearted as ever.
Do you want to get killed?
Y- you are a magnificent person... I just wanted to say that...
Sensei! They're here!
Sensei!
All right!
Being able to understand each other,
and to share with each other,
are both as short-lived as a bubble on the water.
Obscured by the sands of time,
unable to hold on,
I gave up, until I saw you again, asking
"How much pain
have you been carrying, all alone?
And how much loneliness
is hidden behind your eyes when you smile?"
Embrace this miracle of an encounter now,
By gazing upon each other, we can become stronger.
And if this isn't what you call love,
then what is it you call love now?
They've started moving.
I can't see a thing!
Samurai-sama, are you sure the bandits're really there?
You can't look for them with your eyes.
I can definitely hear them. They're mechanical samurai.
Listen to me. Please do as I tell you.
If you do, we will be able to beat the bandits.
Right now, being anxious will play right into their hands.
Coming up the waterfall-- that's standard military strategy.
The waterfall?
There being the seven of us notwithstanding,
our army is still mostly farmers.
If it were me, I would think first to disrupt morale.
The waterfall is a route that is not a route, to say nothing of it being a strong current.
You have to think that they will not easily be able to climb it.
However, to the strategists, it is the best ally they could have.
They will be able to conceal themselves with it,
as well as mask the sound of their approach.
But our opponents are also samurai.
Won't they know that the waterfall's defenses have been fortified?
Yes. Think about it. How would you storm this castle?
Do that, and you will logically predict how your opponent thinks.
They're here! They're here! They're here!
There's one Raiden and eight Mimizuku at the west cliff,
and about ten Mimizuku on the southern road!
There's three Yakan and twelve Mimikuzu in the north cemetery!
All at the same time?!
The Mimikuzu were a lot tougher than I imagined.
Their strength is also tremendous.
Any Benigumo?
We still ain't seen none.
Katsushiro, go with Rikichi to his post. Do as Gorobe instructs you.
Right.
You must be joking! Get down!
The battle has started.
Launch the signal flare!
We've broken through in the south.
Hey, stay with us!
Get the wounded out of here!
Right!
--Gosaku! --Rikichi! Help!
Gorobe-dono!
Arrow grenade.
Arrow grenade? The bandits have those, still?
Would you run and tell everyone for me?
Understood.
Rikichi, Gosaku, I'll leave the rest to you!
Everyone else that can move, come with me!
They're comin'! Everyone stand ready!
Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it!
I'm the number-one guy here!
But Kanbe-sama said we should all attack--
Shut up! I am a samurai!
Weren't you a farmer?
Man-noji!
You give me any guff, and I'll turn you into fertilizer for the rice paddies!
What was that?!
All of the outposts report getting six Mimikuzu in all so far.
Arrow grenades, of all things...
I guess they weren't willing to use them inside their inner sanctuary.
Seeing as how they are using them so zealously here,
it would seem that they want to wipe Kanna Village off the map.
They're here!
My house!
Hurry and put the fire out!
I'm hit! I'm hit in the head!
Somebody get Shino for me! I'm done for!
Snap out of it, would you?!
Yeah...
Those Mimikuzu are a nuisance, huh?
Mm-hmm. But there are only about 15 left.
Kikuchiyo! Why aren't you at your post?!
My katana got broken!
And damned if I'm going to stay at one post in the middle of all this chaos!
A Raiden...?
You guys keep back!
You bandit!
Kikuchiyo-sama, move aside!
Are you serious?!
Why, you...!
Take this!
Rikichi-dono!
Rikichi!
You peasants think you're able to use a gun?!
Get them!
Why, you...!
Katsushiro! Don't let your guard down!
Right!
Rikichi-dono...
Go on.
But...
It looks like he broke some ribs.
We thought that as long as the bandits're comin' at us with firearms...
But it ain't no use if it sends us flyin'.
Let's go.
Hey! You bastards!
Rikichi-dono, you've got to live to see your wife again, right?
Don't throw your life away.
Take him to Kirara-dono's place.
Right!
Hei-san, you're wounded!
I'd like to eat some rice.
This rain has me beat. I can't move the way I'd like to.
My word...
What about the bandits?
There's still the Benigumo.
Something's coming!
You bastards! Stop! Stop!
Kikuchiyo!
Eeyow!
Kanbe-sama, isn't that the Benigumo?
He can see us.
Kyuzo...
So you've shown yourselves, huh?!
What are you doing?!
A katana is too tiny!
We'll finish with you!
I see it!
Gorobe-dono!
You bandit...!
Wait!
You guys stay out of this.
Their leader, huh?
You are the last.
You're saying you cut down all the others?
You have already lost. Why would you still attack this village?
To distinguish yourself as a warrior?
Are you a samurai?
I put being a samurai behind me long ago.
That's low!
I don't need any help!
I can't have you being cut down by this opponent.
I don't intend to be cut down!
--Sensei! --Don't!
Gorobe-dono!
Rikichi...
We don't get sent flyin' this way!
Take that!
You miserable peasants!
That's far enough!
The water is being fouled...
Sister!
Gorobe-sama...!
Forgive me, Rikichi... I won't be able to go with you to the capital...
Samurai-sama...
Your life... has been purchased.
You must... be joking...
Gorobe-dono!
Gorobe! This is no time to be screwing around!
Hey, open your eyes! Hey, Gorobe!
Gorobe-sama...
Take care of the rest.
Very well.
Kanbe-sama!
Let him go.
That man still has a job to do.
The old man merely gazed off into the distance
from the hideaway in which he lived.
The baby cries, seeking only
for the warmth of his mother.
We are born paying the price
for someone's punishment, for someone's sins,
but there is no such thing as a future without salvation,
and the present slips quietly into the past.
We string together nothing but hollow ideas,
and tell nothing but hollow lies.
And as the rain falls down upon us,
something appears and then fades away.
It's Okara. My village was a battlefield.
Ladies and gentlemen,
step right up and take a look at this raging scene of carnage!
The weather is pouring rain, the ground is mud, and bandits are coming left and right,
with loads of cutting, shooting, and fist-pounding swashbuckling! Come and see!
Clash-clash, clang-clang, clash-clang! Life or death is a roll of the dice!
Lives bought! Lives sold!
Behold, Gorobe, samurai by trade, in the greatest contest of his life!
Goro-san, you were a brave man. I won't forget you as long as I live.
That got me thinking, war ain't something we should have.
Just this once, I seriously, genuinely think that.
No more war. Absolutely no more.
I wonder if it will clear up tomorrow...