I'm heading over there now!
Go!
You can't, Heihachi-dono!
Heihachi-dono!
I want to eat rice!
Kyuzo!
I need you alive, Katsushiro.
Just for a little while longer.
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?
Heihachi-sama...
Honorable Emperor, where are you?! Honorable Emperor!
It doesn't look like this ship is going to stop, huh?
No. At this rate, I fear that a collision with Kanna Village is inevitable.
Well then, I guess we win. As long as it ends well, everything is fine.
So, where is the back door?
I will show you. Your state boat has been prepared.
Aren't you considerate?
And while we're at it, fire the main cannon until it's used up.
Yes, sir.
Aww, they're all dead.
T- the capital!
Why ain't it stoppin'? At this rate, it's gonna hit the village!
W- what is this?
Who did this?
This is most puzzling--
I asked you who did this!
Looks like Kanbe was right. He said the real one would flee.
The mechanical... samurai!
Could this one be an imposter, too?
Good question. He does smell better, though.
He smells better?
He smells just like the women here.
If you're picking up the smell of face powder on him,
then this is indeed the emperor.
W- what're you talkin' about? I'm a farmer!
Cut the lousy act!
You used to be a farmer, right?
It's not like I don't understand how you feel, having taken over the world.
I had my body changed into this form
so that I could rise up to become more than a farmer myself, after all.
However, if you're the emperor,
then how about you at least face your demise like a man?!
So you were a peasant, too? Then you understand, right?
Having been tormented by the bandits,
it's all the more significant that I became the emperor.
I'm the one who can set the peasants free.
As such, why would you cut me down? Have I done anything wrong?
Shut your mouth, you stupid bastard!
Don't shoot!
It's no use. Even if you cut me down, it won't change the way the world is.
The peasants and ronin both will just go back to their days of misery.
Once a samurai takes up his sword...
...he cannot be swayed!
Kikuchuyo-dono!
Why, you!
I hate mechanical samurai! I despise them! They treated me like I was a worm...
--Stop it! --...and I'll destroy them all!
Just like I did the emperor! He turned me into a peasant!
I'm the one who drew the shortest straw here, didn't I?!
I'm going to turn this world upside-down!
The samurai, the peasants, and the merchants!
It's my turn to treat you all like worms now!
Well, shall we leave?
But the state boat is...
We just have to get one of the bandits outside to carry it, right?
You're such a nitwit, for pity's sake.
As you command.
Where is Kanbe-kun?
I don't know.
Oh, really?
Stop!
Where is Kanbe-kun?!
Emperor, please hurry onto the ship!
Oh yeah, how is Kirara-kun doing?
If we keep going at this rate, we're going to crush Kanna Village.
I'll have to go rescue Kirara-kun before that happens.
Honorable Emperor!
What is it? You're annoying me!
Why, you samurai...
If you raise your blade to the honorable emperor, I will shoot!
Stop! If you shoot that large a gun,
you're going to blow me to bits too, you know!
But...
Sensei! I will take the bandits!
W- w- wait!
It was the emperor who kidnapped the women and took the rice, wasn't it?!
It was all the previous emperor's fault!
You're the emperor now.
But look! He's the one! He's the one to blame!
They're the ones who wanted to profit
off the backs of the peasants and city-dwellers!
They propped me up to be the emperor,
while they stayed behind the scenes and did anything they pleased!
He's the one who said it was unbecoming of Kanna Village--
of peasants, to arm themselves,
and that we ought to crush them!
Are you sure you want to do this?!
If you cut me down, you'll be a renegade for the rest of your life!
I do not care!
Miserable samurai!
Katsushiro, I'll leave the bandits up to you!
Right!
Kanbe-sama, are you hurt?
Nothing serious.
Shichiroji, we have to stop the capital!
Right.
Kikuchiyo!
Honorable Emperor!
Kikuchiyo-sama!
Nunky! Nunky!
Kikuchiyo-sama!
That hurt!
Kirara-kun, I found you!
Honorable Emperor, you need to be treated quickly!
Kirara-kun...
He's crazy! I'm scared!
You've come to save me...
You're such a nice girl...
Emperor!
Everyone else is dead, so you are my lawful wife...
You're such a pest!
Why, you!
--Nunky! --Kikuchiyo-sama!
Nunky, are you in pain?
How could I be in pain, Komachi?
Rikichi, take me right in front of the capital!
Hurry and get going!
Nunky, hang in there!
You bet!
May you find favor in battle!
Let me take care of this!
You're not getting even one inch closer to those rice fields!
Give it all you've got! Show them what kind of man you are!
Kanbe-sama!
Kirara-kun...
Lay down your guns and arrows.
It's over.
Bandits! Where are the bandits?!
Bandits! Bandits!
There aren't any more bandits. The capital has fallen, too.
We lived through it again.
That we did.
Grandmother?
Are you sure you want to turn your crystal over to Komachi?
You can see it too, can't you, Grandmother?
Yes, the muddy water.
It is the impurity of my sins.
There's no need to blame yourself so much.
Or is this your way of taking responsibility?
I meant to protect you, but I always wound up as the one being protected, huh?
I can't tell you how much your words--
that you would descend together with me-- gave me support.
--I... --Can you now...
Can you now sense the smell of the battlefield about me?
Shall we go?
I've long been thinking about why you acknowledged me
as being the fifth when you did, Sensei.
Every time I suffered another injury, I think I came closer to the answer.
"Do not regard death as something great." Something you once said to me, Sensei.
However,
in this battle for neither territory nor prize,
it is these gentlemen, who gave their lives to defend the village,
that showed us what it truly is to be samurai, are they not?
Are you ashamed to have survived?
No.
For I can stand on the battlefield once again.
As you have done, Sensei.
Take it with you.
By your leave.
♪ When the cherry blossoms bloom, ♪
♪ the greens of the seeds... ♪
♪...grow out from their seedbeds. ♪
♪ Once the tilling is done, the water is brought in. ♪
♪ Come, come, we're planting rice, ♪
♪ sowing the seedlings-- ♪
♪ O great Sun, who blesses our fields, ♪
Sanae?
I remember this song.
Rikichi-san, you take it easy.
♪ accept these seedlings into your arms. ♪
--This was yet another losing battle, wasn't it?
--♪ Grab it by the stalk ♪
--Rather, it was the farmers who won. Not us. --♪ and place it in line, ♪
--Rather, it was the farmers who won. Not us. --♪ then grab another one ♪
♪ and place it in line. ♪
--The soil will remain here forever. --♪ Nurture it until it grows into rice. ♪
Old man...
--Live well. --♪ Day and night, as always, ♪
♪ weed them, give them water, drive away the birds, ♪
♪ and after much loving care, the rice will be sweet. ♪
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.
The war is finally over.
But Nunky is no longer around.
Ukyo spoke to the world like he was a good person,
so there are some people who say bad things about Nunky and the others' war.
They say that samurai from the old age crushed the great merchants
who were making an effort to try to reform things.
The only ones who know what really happened are the people in the village,
and those who have been helping us up to now,
like Poppa Masamune, Yukino-san, and Honoka-san.
But Rikichi says that that's good enough.
He says that as long as we are proud of the samurai,
Nunky and the others' deaths will definitely not be in vain.
I won't ever forget them.
Nunky, and Hei-san, and Goro-san, and Kyuzo-sama.
And those that lived, too-- Uncle, Momotaro, and Katsu-noji.
Thank you, all of you. I love you all! Bye now.