TOHO FILMS
VAGABONDS IN A COUNTRY AT WAR Sengoku Burai
Produced by TANAKA Tomoyuki
Original Story by INOUE Yasushi
Screenplay by INAGAKI Hiroshi & KUROSAWA Akira
MIFUNE Toshiro MIKUNI Rentaro ICHIKAWA Danshiro
YAMAGUCHI Toshiko ASAGA Shinobu
SHIMURA Ko TONO Eijiro KAGAWA Ryosuke AOYAMA Sugisaku
Directed by INAGAKI Hiroshi
AUTUMN IN THE FIRST YEAR OF TENSHO (1573)
On the shore of Lake Biwa...
the castle of Azai Nagamasa, the governor of Kotani, was surrounded...
by the large army led by the powerful warlord Oda Nobunaga...
and the tragic destiny of defeat was imminent.
Listen, it is your duty too.
Save the lady and her children at all cost.
Farewell.
Quiet! Quiet!
Hey, quiet! A notice from the castle!
What is it? What notice?
Notice.
We made an agreement with the Oda today...
and the agreement is as follows:
One, we will temporarily cease fire.
Stand down and do not make any moves.
Two, at dawn we will hand over Lady OīIchi...
as well as her three daughters to the Oda.
At that point, the truce will end.
The battle tomorrow will be the last one for the Asai...
so please do your best.
Are you going to die for the castle?
This is your last chance to escape. Go.
After all this time, why would I?
Hey, how about you?
The castle is my only home.
Hey, and you?
What?
I owe my lord who's been generous to me.
Hey, what about you?
No question about it.
Itīs your call.
Escape or die? Choose!
Iīll die in battle.
Hayate, what about you?
Me?
I donīt want to die.
What? Why is that?
Well, no specific reason.
I just prefer not to die if I could help it.
Even if people will laugh at your lack of conscience?
Yeah, Iīm greedy.
To think my life was only what has been, I feel pity for myself suddenly.
Bastard!
Let me, Kagami Yaheiji, test you to see if you mean what you say.
Let's go!
Get lost!
What?
Youīre a good fighter.
No wonder you feel itīs a pity to die with the castle.
Hurry and get lost!
Leave the castle now.
Tonight is the only chance youīve got to escape.
I didnīt say I wanted to escape.
What?
I said I didnīt want to die.
If you stay, you should prepare to die for the castle.
Or would you rather be captured alive and endure the shame?
What are you going to do?
Me?
Iīm going to die with the castle.
Unlike you, Iīm indebted to the last three generations.
Tomorrow I will keep stabbing until the blade of my staff falls apart.
I envy you.
I feel jealous of your preparedness to die with the castle.
I wish I had a castle like that.
I wish I had a master for whom Iīd be content to die.
All the more for that, you should escape at once.
Go and find a master like that.
But...
After hearing how youīre prepared to die, I donīt feel like escaping.
Itīs quite strange.
Leave it.
Weīre on different paths.
If you donīt feel like give your life away, you should live on.
Or, is there another reason why you donīt want to escape?
Is there?
It must be a woman.
Am I right?
What a fool.
Then, run with your woman.
It might actually be safer to travel with a woman.
Iīm going.
Thereīs only one way to escape...
The dried up moat in the west.
Youīll die if you wait ītil tomorrow.
Hey, why didnīt you kill Yaheiji?
I hardly could. He was about to kill me.
If youīre escaping, why donīt we do it together?
I donīt want to die for a castle.
But you...
Well, I declared Iīd die just to fool him.
I see.
So, thatīs your way of dealing with people.
In any case, itīs inconvenient for both of us that you didnīt kill him.
He has a petty mind. He hates those who survive.
Heīs not!
Those who take advantage of the dead to escape are wrong.
Thatīs what he hates.
As a matter of fact, he told me to escape.
So, why didnīt you right then?
Youīre a fool when you donīt even want to die.
Anyway, we both wasted some years serving here.
Itīs another pawn to sacrifice.
Iīll meet you above the dried moat after everyoneīs gone to sleep.
Thereīs no other opening to escape from.
Whoīs there?
Oh, a woman, arenīt you?
Yamane at headquarters sent me on an urgent errand.
Where to?
To Mr. Satsuta Hayate-no-suke of Sir Wakizakaīs clan.
But Iīm surprised you made it here.
I think the enemy is in the middle sector.
I came by way of Otaniyama.
Wow, what a strong-willed woman, despite her looks!
The Satsuta fellow is a lucky man.
I doubt heīll let an unexpected gift like you go without a fuss.
Miss, are you prepared for it?
Let me pass!
Well, weīre not saying we wonīt.
But this is the last day on earth for us.
Before we depart, would you drink with us?
Don't joke like that!
No, weīre dead serious.
Itīs all right with us if you want to sleep with us.
Oh, our loss.
Open the gate!
Satsuta!
Satsuta Hayate-no-suke!
Iīm here!
You have an urgent message from Sir Yamane at headquarters.
Itīs a woman. Hurry up.
Well, itīd be a disaster to be late for the final battle tomorrow.
Let me rest.
Ms Kano.
What brought you to a place like this, on your own?
What are you doing here?
I donīt know.
Itīs just that Iīm scheduled to go to the Oda with my lady tomorrow morning.
So...
Thatīs good news.
Well, your life will be saved at least.
And you?
It wonīt please my uncle but I donīt wish to die here.
Iīll fight as hard as I can tomorrow and escape if I can.
I feel relieved at last.
Well, it seems I was quite worried about you.
You were, about me?
Iīll quit. I wonīt go to the Oda.
What are you saying?
I want to be here.
Thatīs ridiculous. - No...
I will die here with you.
Iīm not saying Iīll die.
I'll live as long as I can.
Then, where to if the castle falls?
Where...
Perhaps run to Shinano.
I have an acquaintance at a temple in Suwa.
Shinano? You mean, the Takeda.
Yes.
When my duty is complete, I promise to go to Shinano.
Sir Hayate!
What happened? What is it?
Itīs the end!
The enemy in the middle sector conquered Otaniyama!
What? You mean we canīt get to the headquarters?
Canīt go anywhere!
Theyīre going to strangle us to death.
It's the will of the Oda...
Yaheiji!
Yaheiji?
Hey!
Donīt panic, itīs me.
Hayate? - Yeah.
People will see you up there. Come down.
Letīs hurry. Itīll be dawn if we dilly-dally.
But where are we going?
Iīve got it all down.
Thereīs a secret passage on the west side of the moat.
But Yaheiji is guarding it.
What?
Ridiculous. It canīt be him.
I saw he was asleep.
But I saw him with my own eyes.
He ran past over there just now.
Damn it.
Then, we have no choice but to kill him and get out.
Itīll be possible with the two of us.
I donīt want to. - What?
I donīt want to kill him.
Heīs a good fellow.
If you think like that, youīre just going to kill yourself.
Jurota.
What? - Do me a favor.
Will you take her and run?
If you take her with you, Yaheiji will think itīs me and let you go.
Thatīs the only way for both you and her to escape.
What are you going to do?
I canīt escape and leave such a good man behind.
Sir Hayate!
See you in Shinano, then.
Yes, in Shinano.
Listen, donīt say a word no matter what happens.
And donīt leave my side no matter what happens.
Whoīs there?
I knew it was a woman.
Get out of here safely.
Are you with the Oda or the Asai?
Iīm the Asaiīs subordinate, Kagami Yaheiji.
Yaheiji!
Yaheiji, run! Run!
No, I wonīt run!
Letīs kill him!
Donīt kill him! Donīt!
Heīs old. Tie him up.
What?
Kill me! Slice me up!
Slice me! Kill me! Slice me!
Yaheiji, so long!
Thief!
Oh, Kano.
Kano?
Kano...
He wonīt make it.
Hey, someone do him a favor and finish him off.
We can do more than just steal.
Show mercy.
Iīm not going to die.
You still want to live in a state like this?
Leave me alone.
Iīll die anyway if I were to die.
Hey, hold it.
Dad, letīs take him back and see.
Thatīs tacky.
He ran this far with those wounds.
You never know, he might come in handy.
I suppose.
Shall we save him?
Hey, if weīre going to save him, letīs handle him with care.
Heīs not a corpse.
Itīs a close call.
We may end up hauling him off into the ocean on our way.
Well, youīre awake.
Hey, arenīt you glad they didnīt kill you?
Why are you staring at me?
You must be in a daze.
Where are you going to take me?
Well, leave that to me.
I took on your life.
I can do whatever I want to do with you.
Where are we going?
How annoying. Into the mountains of Hida.
What happened to all those men?
You talk so arrogantly.
Theyīre taking a nap on the island.
An island?
Where on earth are we?
Okino Island.
We went adrift because of a storm.
We've been waiting for the waves to die down for two whole days, you see.
Two whole days?
You must be hungry.
Eat.
You were asleep for three days in total.
Itīs been three days?
I think theyīre Oda men.
Who are the people singing?
Roaches that follow them everywhere they go.
They follow them to the end.
Thinking about Hayate again?
Forget him. Heīs dead by now.
I shouldnīt have said goodbye.
I should have stayed with him to the end.
Stop it.
No use regretting about it now.
Sir Jurota, we will part ways here.
Parf ways? Why?
I have an acquaintance at the foot of Mt. Ibuki.
I will get there on my own.
Thatīs too risky.
Frankly, thatīs inconvenient for me.
The Oda won't stop me because youīre with me.
Well, bear with me for a little while longer.
Here they come again. Letīs walk.
Theyīll be suspicious if we stand here.
What can we expect from a monster face like this?
The Lord sure is fanciful.
Hey, stop being so stubborn and accept to be his subordinate.
Normally youīd have been killed...
but you were saved because of his fancy, not mercy.
Be grateful.
Whatīs so funny?
This face belongs to the Asai, to Otani castle.
Iīd never.
Eat it.
All right, Iīll untie your hand.
Come on and eat it.
So, eating food is okay with you.
Itīs not the Asaiīs food.
Iīm preparing for decapitation.
When you cut off my head...
I want it to fly with the force of my gushing blood.
Hurry and finish it.
Give me water.
Aren't you demanding.
What do you think you need the most in order to survive in the world?
First, courage.
Don't give me such a strange look.
The courage Iīm talking about is slightly different from what you think.
Mine is the courage to...
be willing to do anything to be promoted to higher positions.
Courage to readily be a coward or a betrayer.
Courage to wag a tail like a dog for the strong...
and attack the weak like a wolf with fangs.
You donīt have it in you.
What?
You donīt have the courage.
I... I...
Youīre all talk.
Hereīs the evidence.
You canīt even reveal half of what youīre feeling.
I donīt think youīll make it unless someone acts as a sponsor for you.
Say what you like.
Iīll let you as enterfainment for drinking.
Listen, itīs for your own good.
Forget an ambition that doesnīt suit you and work it the honest way.
If possible, give up the sword or the staff.
Thatīll suit you better.
Just listen.
In this day and age, itīs hard not to have an ambitious goal.
But not everyone is made for it.
Only special ones among all the men can have true ambitions.
All right, if you say so, watch me.
In one year, letīs get together one year from now.
Iīll show you who Tachibana Jurota is!
How dreary, another war.
So, the Takeda are attacking Akechiīs castle?
No, I hear the castle has already fallen.
Oh, so now itīs going to be the Takeda against the Oda.
How terrible.
SPRING IN THE SECOND YEAR OF TENSHO (1574)
Hayate, what did you see now?
Now?
I was looking at the snow. - Donīt lie.
Lie? - Right.
You werenīt looking at the snow but something else.
Tell me. Just tell me.
Well, maybe it was Kano.
Fool! It wasnīt a woman.
Something more strange.
Something strange...
Youīre right. It was a dream I just saw.
A dream?
A big dream.
Like what?
Well, listen.
Have you ever been up at the top deck of a castle?
Then, what about standing at the peak of a mountain?
I love standing on top of a mountain.
All right.
How do you feel when youīre on a high mountain?
How does it feel to look down at the mountains you always look up at?
I feel brave as if Iīve become a large hawk.
And?
I feel like screaming from the top of my lungs.
And?
I feel like opening my arms and flying.
Thatīs the kind of dream I was just having.
I see this Hida mountain is too small for you.
Youīre planning to leave this mountain one day, arenīt you?
Donīt be stupid, ungrateful bastard!
Talking so selfishly.
You were dead.
Who saved you from the dead?
If you try anything stupid, Iīm going to kill you, damn it!
If you want to leave the mountain so badly, go ahead.
We have a cerfain job and weīre leaving in the near future.
Leave with us and return here with us.
Damn you!
Most of the load from our last job has been sold.
I must ask you to get to work again.
Yes.
If Akechiīs castle has fallen, Takedaīs castle will be next.
If the Oda accept this fight, weīre in business.
Hayate, I want you to come with us this time.
Any complaints? Your wounds should be healed by now.
I donīt really want to help stealing.
What?
Why donīt you want to do it? Tell me!
I donīt want to steal.
You donīt like stealing but you like the war business.
You idiot!
How good are samurai?
Theyīre the big thieves who starf wars and steal from the county.
Hayate, you canīt disagree with Father.
Stay out of it!
Drop the staff and step forward.
Do you remember who saved you?
You forgot and have the nerve to say you donīt want to join us.
Damn bastard!
Hey, donīt interfere!
Father! Father!
Donīt stop me!
His life belongs to me!
I saved him. I wonīt let you do as you please!
OīRyo, why did you take my side?
Because you did, I canīt leave the cabin any more.
Hayate, do you have to leave here?
I do. I wanted to leave if I had to risk my life.
Fool. Iīll never let you leave.
OīRyo... - What are you doing?
Hayate.
You came back?
Father isnīt going with them. Heīs at the cabin.
I came to tell you that.
Does Toju want to do something to me?
Donīt run away until theyīre back.
Hayate, Iīll give you my life.
Hayate.
Hayate, leave the mountain and donīt ask why.
Iīm sorry but get out of here without asking why.
OīRyo is desperately trying to cover for you...
and as a father I understand how she feels.
Sheīs dear to me.
But itīs simple because you wonīt join us even if your life is at risk.
Our meeting was fateful but I suppose we werenīt meant to be.
Hereīs a little travel money.
Take it and leave the mountain without question.
Whatīs that?
Thatīs OīRyoīs comb!
Hayate, whatīs going on?
Hayate, why are you being quiet?
Could it be that she...
Damn you!
Poor soul, Hayate.
Thatīs right. No one has ever disagreed with Chief and survived.
Ignorance is scary.
By now he must have been...
Shut up!
Oh, whatīs that?
Whatīs that?
Are they Oda officials?
No, theyīre not.
Theyīre pirates. - Theyīre robbers.
Idiot! Weīre better as thieves.
Hey, quiet, all of you.
How many years have you been working around Lake Biwa?
But weīre out of our turf on the water.
Shut up!
Do you want to run away scared by dirty rats?
And you call yourselves Toju men? Idiots!
Boss, weīre sorry...
We didnīt realize it was roaming samurai we went after.
They were quite used to being on boats.
Only half of our boats and men survived.
You had the nerve to come back with that.
Well, Boss, they all sank to the bottom of the lake.
But we brought their leader here.
Why donīt you kill him?
Itīs a woman, too pretty to kill.
You see, Boss, she was the leader of the samurai. What a joke.
I know you donīt like women but we wanted to show her to you before killing.
Hey!
Donīt just look at me. Show your face too.
I want to see which is handsomer...
the famous face of yours or that of a demon in hell.
Hey, what an outrageous woman.
Sheīs cut and still laughing.
Let her go.
Boss, you didnīt kill her?
Let her go. We donīt need her.
Boss has gotten violent, since that day.
What day?
Remember the day when the roaming samurai beat us up? Ever since then.
Wait.
I came to complain to you.
Hey, why didnīt you do me a favor and kill me then?
This gal is really strange.
Who complains about being spared?
Because you didnīt, I suffer sorrows of hell.
Youīd suffer punishment in hell if you got killed.
Heaven doesnīt suit you at all.
Shut up! Stay out of it!
Get out. Get out now!
Iīm not going home.
Iīll stay here until Iīm done with my business.
Iīm looking for someone.
Have you heard by any chance about a man named Hayate?
What? Hayate?
Heīs my fatherīs enemy.
And heīs...
The porridge is ready. Do you want some?
Why do you hide your face?
It seems youīre really a nice person.
I wonīt stay long.
I just have some questions.
The man youīre looking for...
Hayate, if I remember correctly...
You kept calling his name while you were unconscious with fever.
Yes. Hayate.
Hayate what?
Hayate-no-suke...
Satsuta Hayate-no-suke.
I thought so.
What, do you know him?
Where is he now?
That I donīt know.
I knew him a long time ago. He was a good guy.
Turn this way, and talk to me. Tell me about him.
You said heīs a good guy just now.
Do you really think so?
Yeah, he was a good guy.
EARLY SUMMER OF THE THIRD YEAR OF TENSHO (1575)
Soji!
Oh, youīre still alive.
Did you think I was dead or something?
Whereīs Kana? - She went to Shinano.
It seems she just canīt forget about the man named Hayate.
Chasing after a dead ghost...
What a foolish woman. - You arenīt so bright either.
What?
You donīt look like youīve been promoted.
Well, just watch me.
A samurai cannot receive promotions without wars.
You canīt pick up your sword without a master either, can you?
Some swords are just useless no matter how you polish them.
Iīll show you whether Iīm dull or not.
Well, just donīt force yourself.
Itīll be all in vain if you die.
I wonīt die even if all the others get killed in a battle.
Thatīs what everyone thinks.
Just watch me.
Hey, isnīt this the princessīs comb?
But where on earfh has she gone I wonder?
She comes suddenly and leaves suddenly.
Isnīt she a handful?
What?
You donīt even know if heīs with the Oda or the Takeda?
And youīre trying to find someone?
Iīve got to hurry. - I havenīt even told you his name.
It doesnīt help to hear it anyway.
There are a total of 38,000 soldiers in the Odaīs army.
Satsuta Hayate-no-suke?
Never heard of him. Which family is he with?
There are 35,000 men serving the Takeda alone.
Excuse me.
Come on, out of the way!
Are you new, too?
Me too. But I want victory in my first battle.
The sunrise of May 21 in the 3rd year of Tensho was beautiful as if a dream.
And...
Takedaīs attack that day was beautiful like the dawning sky and shorf-lived.
It resembled Hayate-no-sukeīs dream in some way.
This is terrible, really terrible.
Takedaīs impossible dream.
They had not yet awoken from the dream.
That day Takeda Katsuyori kept dreaming...
the impossible dream until sundown.
What? The warīs over?
Yeah, it was a huge victory for our army.
Is that true?
Our Lord just received a message from Sakaiīs unit.
Damn it!
Well, why are you angry to hear about our victory?
How could I be happy about it?
What have we done in this battle?
All we did was to follow the tail of Sakaiīs unit...
going up and down the hills since last night and eating three or so rice balls.
Hey, where are you off to?
Iīll go looking for the enemy, for a generalīs head.
I came to battle, not to eat rice balls!
Wait a minute. Iīll let you have my head.
Wait! Wait!
Chako!
Can you go get Grandma for me?
I canīt seem to get a clean shave.
Thereīs nothing valuable whatsoever in our house.
No, Iīm not a thief.
I was hungry so I helped myself to your water.
Oh, I see.
There should be something to eat in the kitchen.
See for yourself and eat what you want.
Granpa.
Can I help you shave?
Are you an Oda man?
No, my army lost.
I see, Iīm sorry to hear that.
We want the wars to end as soon as possible.
The elder brother was drafted and died in the battle of Anegawa.
Then the younger one left home saying heīd avenge his brotherīs death...
never to be seen again.
I guess he died in a battle somewhere.
Are you by yourself, grandpa?
There are three of us. Me, my wife and my granddaughter Chako.
The young ones go to war and die one after another.
Only old people, women and children are alive.
And crippled men.
You too are the kind who will die before your parents.
Do what you want, youīre young only once.
But you only have one life to live too, so youīd better be careful.
Grandpa, would you like a massage?
I wish my sons were alive.
Grandpa, take care of yourself.
I wonīt die so easily.
Live long.
Where did the unit led by Sir Baba of the Takeda Clan battle?
Youīre looking for someone. - Yes.
Itīs no use looking.
The Takeda lost.
There are only corpses beyond this point.
Whoever survived ran away during the night.
The men we liked might be dead.
Find a new man.
I really liked that man.
Hey! I think this is enough!
All we need to do is to get the bodies.
Hey, where are you going?
You should help too.
Donīt be ridiculous.
I was supposed to be responsible for one grave...
and ended up digging graves for five or so.
Youīre so calculating.
Thatīs right. I always get something out of a bad situation.
That armor belonged to the dead man from last night, isnīt it?
Youīre going to sell it off somewhere, arenīt you?
Youīre a bit slow, arenīt you?
Whoīd carry around an armor that belongs to the dead if he wants to sell it?
Iīm going to use the armor to sell myself.
Iīm going to go to Niwaīs headquarfers...
and tell all kinds of stories about the armor, true and false, to promote myself.
Well, if youīre ever out of work, come to me at the Niwa Clan.
Iīll let you pull my horse as a fellow grave digger.
We meet again.
I donīt have any need to see you.
It seems you havenīt found the person youīre searching for.
Oh yeah, go straight down this road...
and youīll find tons of nameless corpses buried in the ground.
Too bad. The one Iīm looking for is alive.
I wonīt let him die on me.
Hayate!
Hey, do you mean Satsuta Hayate-no-suke?
What? You know Hayate?
I do, except it was a long time ago.
I want to know where he is now.
But what on earfh is your relationship with him?
Life.
Life?
I canīt live without him. But I canīt let him live if I saw him.
Wait.
Let me ask you something.
What on earfh do women...
no, you find so attractive about Hayate?
I have no idea. Itīs just that...
That?
When I look into his eyes, it makes me want to tie his hearf down.
Why?
Heīs always looking at some faraway place.
Like his eyes are looking at beautiful clouds...
in a distance from the top of a high mountain.
I guess women long for them.
SPRING IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF TENSHO (1576)
Youīve made it quite big.
Looks like you worked hard at killing people in Nagashino.
Youīre always so tough.
By the way, who do you work for now?
The Niwa Clan.
I see, Sir Niwa Nagahide.
They say itīs safer to be under a big umbrella...
especially with the recent construction of Azuchi Castle.
Isnīt it funny...
I couldnīt find a way to promotion in battle fields...
but then, as I piled the rocks for the stone walls, the way naturally opens.
Itīs not really something to boast about.
No, itīs best to be promoted without having to kill people.
But you see, Iīll be joining the army at last, for a battle in Tanba.
Tanba?
The enemy is just the wild monkey of Tanba...
but Iīm finally going to be able to prove my manhood.
So, which castle are you attacking?
Itīs Yakami.
I guess itīs a fate.
What?
No, let me not get into it.
Nothing will change if I do.
Tell me. Itīs about Kano, isnīt it?
I shouldīve known better at my age to watch my tongue.
Tell me! Just tell me!
Where did Kano go?
I have no choice. Kano went to Tanba.
Tanba?
With a samurai from Yakami Castle.
It was three days ago.
A fellow sword sharpener who worked in Tanba for a long time came by...
and the topic of the samurai came up in our conversation.
Thereīs a good reason why theyīre having difficulty conquering Yakami Castle.
Hatano has a group of fine samurai working for him.
Especially well-known among the bravest...
is a man who carries a banner that says "Hayateīī.
When Kano heard this, she lost her cool.
Where are you going?
To Tanba.
Hayate! Hayate!
OīRyo! OīRyo!
What, Yaheiji?
Well, you were having a nightmare. Thatīs why...
You donīt have to tell me about my nightmare.
Whenever I sleep, I always have this dream.
In the dream Hayate falls down from a high place.
Whatīs wrong? Please stay.
I like you.
Youīre always silent looking scary.
Youīre just like a big rock.
When I was in the mountains...
I often used to sleep on a rock like that.
A big rock looks scary but itīs kind.
Oh, what happened, Saīemon?
What happened, Saīemon?
You wouldnīt believe, itīs a terrible storm out there.
Whatīs this?
Itīs a woman.
Damn you! Sheīs mine!
No complaints, are there?
Stop!
What? You say you know me?
You donīt look familiar to me at all.
I think it was back then.
The night before Otani Castle fell.
What, at Otani Castle?
You know Sir Satsuta Hayate-no-suke, donīt you?
Hayate-no-suke?
Now you mention it, I remember a maid came to visit Hayate.
That was you.
Iīll never forget he said he couldnīt leave behind a fine samurai like Yaheiji.
He said that about me?
Thatīs why I ended up leaving the castle with Sir Jurota.
I see.
Looking back, it was a shorf-lived dream.
I miss the days gone by.
So, whereīs Hayate now?
I heard through the grapevine that heīs in Yakami Castle.
What, Yakami Castle?
Thatīs a problem.
Yakami Castle will fall in the next few days.
Hayate is in danger.
OīRyo!
OīRyo! OīRyo!
Everyone at this castle is drunk with the fog.
Surrounded by the fog...
they may be dreaming that the castle is the only world.
The fog is great. It covers up anything you donīt want to see.
Donīt be sarcastic.
We donīt think we can hold up the castle forever either.
We know hundreds of lives will be lost along with the castle.
But in this fog it only seems like a dream.
It wasnīt like this when Otani fell.
Each and every life in the castle went wild screaming.
It was truly a living hell.
But here everyone awaits his death as if intoxicated.
Even I could probably die dosing off with the castle as my pillow.
Gotta be careful.
Sounds like Akechiīs army is drunk with conquering of Tanba.
No, thatīs Niwaīs army.
I doubt Akechi is in a mood for a song.
They sent Niwaīs army to back them up.
I can just see a bitter expression on Nobunagaīs face.
I suppose theyīre going to give us one last push.
The last push.
Hey, you!
Where are you going?
To the castle.
What? The castle?
What are you going there for?
Thereīs someone I want to see.
Do you have any idea who we are?
Youīre Sir Akechiīs samurai, right?
No, weīre the Niwa.
Do you dare pass through here knowing weīre enemies to Yakami?
Doesnīt matter to me.
I just want to get there. Thatīs all.
Are you mad?
What a pity. Youīre beautiful but mad.
Wait!
Tachibana!
Tachibana Jurota!
Iīm here!
Come to the main tent.
No need to accompany me.
He doesnīt talk at all lately.
Heīs totally changed since he visited the sharpener in Sakamoto.
Itīs a woman, you see.
I heard he went there hoping to have...
at least a wedding ceremony with her before coming out here.
Are you surprised, Tachibana?
So deep in the mountains, to have drinks with such a beauty by your side.
Itīs an auspicious omen indeed.
This is a trickster fox.
Those tricksters of Tanba are good at turning into women.
I know this woman. - What?
All I meet are the ones I donīt want to.
Do you know why she roams around here?
She says thereīs a man at Yakami she wants to see.
But I bet you donīt know who that man is.
You canīt be so relaxed if you knew.
Who is it?
Hayate.
You mean the famous brave one?
But heīs virfually killed at this point.
No way in hell you can kill him.
Weīll shoot him with rifles, using you as bait.
Iīm sure Hayate will fall for the bait.
You should know this more than anyone else.
He flies off the mountain with no wings.
Damn you.
Hey!
What did you tell me in Nagashino?
You said you wanted to see Hayate...
but you couldnīt let him live if you saw him, didnīt you?
Iīm granting you your wish.
Itīs a message on an arrow!
A message on an arrow!
What was the commotion?
A message on an arrow.
What does it say?
Itīs stupid.
You mean the message?
Is that another sentimental plea from Akechi?
It came addressed to you.
What? - Here it is.
Wait, I want to say something before you read it.
Do you know of a woman named OīRyo?
It looks as if the Niwaīs captured her.
Even a fool can see theyīre using her as bait to try to kill you.
I donīt know how the two of you know each other.
But if you two have such history that they decided to use her as bait...
I donīt believe she would want to see you get killed for her sake.
Donīt go.
Iīm sure thatīs her wish too.
Hayate, donīt read the message.
Hayate!
Satsuta Hayate-no-suke, come on out!
Hayate! Stop hiding! Answer!
OīRyo! Are you there?
Uncover her mouth.
Hayate!
Is that you, OīRyo? - Hayate!
Donīt come! Donīt come!
Hold on! Iīm coming!
Do you have the rifle ready?
Listen, Iīll throw the torch at him.
Shoot at the torch. Understood?
All right, go.
Hayate!
Donīt come into the light!
I smell a rifle!
I already know they might have a gun.
Hold it! Iīll come out first!
Who are you?
Kagami Yaheiji!
Hayate! Hayate!
Yeah, Iīm okay!
Get back! Get back to the castle at once!
Whatīs the matter? Canīt you see the ladders?
Hayate, hurry!
The enemy is on the move!
Yeah, Iīm coming.
Wait! Wait! Wait!
Wait!
I wonīt let you go.
Gentleman of Yakami!
Would you consider giving up and doing without Hayate?
Yaheiji, what are you talking about?
Get away with OīRyo. Iīll do the work for you here.
Yaheiji!
Get out of here now!
You get out of here. - Bastard.
Fool! You canīt make me owe you so much.
What?
You made me owe you first. Iīm just repaying you now.
Damn it, donīt go!
Move!
The castle wonīt last even if you stayed.
Go!
Miyoshi!
We donīt need any more men to die with the castle!
Miyoshi!
Hayate, weīre going to shoot flaming arrows into the hills in all directions.
They will shoot back at us if theyīre there.
Listen, run to the hills where you donīt see any arrows.
You canīt make me do that!
Hayate! Hayate!
To hell with the castle. Hayate is mine!
Iīm not going to let anyone have you!
Wait! Wait!
OīRyo! OīRyo!
Hayate!
This is it.
Miyoshi and his men wonīt survive.
Gentleman of Yakami, farewell!
Hayate, what are you looking at?
I canīt see anything.
Iīm listening to Yakami fall.
I want to fly to Yakami. I wish I had wings!
Hayate!
Whatīs wrong, OīRyo?
OīRyo, whatīs wrong?
Someoneīs coming.
Weīre with the Niwa.
Weīre guarding our wounded master to escape to Omi.
Let us pass.
Weīre not your enemy. Let us pass.
What?
Get him!
Cowards!
Just as soon as they said theyīre guarding their master...
they abandoned him and ran away.
One canīt say so much for a master who gets abandoned.
Oh, Jurota!
What? Jurota?
Jurota!
Hang in there.
Jurota, do you see me? Itīs Hayate.
Hayate...
Jurota, your wounds arenīt serious.
OīRyo, tear up a piece of cloth for me.
Damn you! - What are you doing?
What am I doing? What are YOU doing?
He got wounded by the shots that were aimed at you.
He used me as bait and tried to kill you.
What?
He should be left to die here! He deserves it.
Damn you, that isnīt enough.
What am I going to do about him?
Jirota, you havenīt seen the staff since Otani.
Take it! - Wait!
Wait a minute.
I love Kano.
I acted like a dog for her.
Laugh.
Iīm a dog.
Iīll die as a dog at least.
Come on, kill me.
But, Hayate...
Iīm going to die without telling you where she is.
Hey, Jurota! Jurota!
This is the death an immoral man deserves.
Jurota! Jurota!
Donīt panic. I know where Kano is.
What? You do?
Yeah, in Tanba.
Tanba?
Tanba is just a shorf distance away from here.
Sheīs in a village you can see from this peak if the fog clears.
Yaheiji, you took the woman Kano here, didnīt you?
Donīt be mad. Itīs fate.
Iīm not mad.
Iīve given up Hayate.
Itīs true. But Iīm dying of thirst.
You want water?
Remember there was clear water back there?
Please get me some.
Fool! Leave your staff.
How are you going to carry the water?
Hayate.
I have one question.
About Toju, right?
Listen, I wanted to tell you too.
That morning I was looking at your comb when he came in.
So, he stabbed himself.
But...
Stop! Say no more.
But Iīm still your fatherīs enemy.
No, youīre my life.
Thatīs all.
Iīm glad. I can leave with no regret.
What?
OīRyo.
Hayate, you go to Kano!
OīRyo, be careful! - Stay back!
Youīre not the person in my dream.
Iīm going with my dream about you.
No one can take my dream away from you!
Boss, where to?
Weīre leaving! Weīre leaving!
Translated by Ann Jiitsu Subtitled and Mastered by Cannibal King www.KuroTokagiGumi.com