Heian Yoshioka Training Hall
Strength in Desolation
I wish for a match with Yoshioka Seij?r?-sensei.
Leave! Leave!
The Sensei is out.
And his younger brother, Denshichir?-dono, is on his way to Kyoto, too.
Leave already!
Leave!
Wait, wait.
Kimura Takuya
Which school have you apprenticed under?
Sawamura Ikki
Maki Y?ko
I don't have a particular teacher...
Matsuda Sh?ta
...nor any school I've studied under yet.
Nakatani Miki
But, as a child, I learned the art of the 10 moves from my Father.
Baish? Mitsuko
Takeda Tetsuya
Thereafter...
...I would ask for strategies from whomever happened to come along the road to my village.
Yachigusa Kaoru
Nishida Toshiyuki
And after that, I left my home town...
Yusuke Santa-Maria
...and studied under the trees and with the mountain deities.
Bankawa Teruyuki
Narration: Ichihara Etsuko
Do you have someone who can claim your corpse?
Original Work: Yoshikawa Eiji ("Miyamoto Musashi")
In the unlikely event I do end up a corpse...
Screenplay: Sato Shimako
...you can toss me out onto either the Toribe Mountain...
Music: Hattori Takayuki
Director: Kanefuku Ry?suke
...or along with your garbage into the Kamo River.
By no means will I come to bear you any grudge for it.
Okay. In that case, we'll be your opponents.
I'm next!
Are you okay?!
What... What is this man...
What's your name?
Sakush? Province, Yoshino District, Miyamoto Village, the r?nin...
...Miyamoto Musashi.
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Takez?...
Miyamoto Musashi
First Night
Five Years Before
The time is October 21st, 1600.
On this day...
...Japan was divided between East and West and the two battled.
The man who won this battle would gain all of Japan.
It is commonly referred to as the "Decisive Battle."
Battle of Sekigahara
It was the Battle of Sekigahara.
Who is that?
Kojir?!
Kojir??
Gangway!
Dreaming of having a successful life, this is the common footsoldier, "Shinmen Takez?."
Shinmen Takez?
He who would later become Miyamoto Musashi...
...had suffered a crushing defeat along with the Western Army.
I lost...
Damn...
Damn it!
Takez?...
Matahachi!
Takez?...
Ah, it hurts... It hurts, it hurts.
Here, steady yourself.
It hurts, it hurts, it hurts...
What is it? Were you slashed?
Hon'iden Matahachi
No.
What then?
Lend me your shoulder, lend me your shoulder...
Though I intended to take the head of a general in Hideyoshi's army...
...I ended up like this...
It's the same for me.
I intended to look back at those in our village from the top of the world.
Takez?...
Huh?
If I die, please take care of Ots?.
Ots?? Who's that?
My fiancée.
She lives at the Shippoji Temple and is an orphan.
She's very, very cute.
Ah... I wanted to see Ots? just once more before I died...
Ots?...
Ah!
What'jya do that fer!?
A person won't die from having diarrhea!
Shape up, you!
Wait. It really is diarrhea.
In that case, pinch it out.
What's with this rain?!
How should I know?
Takez?... Lend me your shoulder, your shoulder!
One Year Later, Sakush? Province, Miyamoto Village
My son Matahachi is the Hon'iden family's important, important heir.
Please, we pray he returns safely.
And I pray that the companion who took Matahachi into that battle...
...goes straight to Hell!
There he is!
After him!
Wait! Wait!
Ots?
Ots?.
Obaba-sama.
Osugi
What is a bride to the Hon'iden family doing here?
I'm sorry...
Anyhow, because the world is in an uproar right now...
...I want you to move yourself out of Shippoji here and into the Hon'iden home.
Once Matahachi-san has returned...
That wouldn't be good.
Are there people of Miyamoto Village here?
And you would be...
I would be Aoki Tanzaemon.
Aoki Tanzaemon
The Lord of Himeji Castle, Ikeda Terumasa, has charged me with hunting down remnants of the losing side...
...as well as a guy named Takez? of Miyamoto Village who tore through our gates and has fled.
Akuz??
Is that shameless guy still alive?
Akuz??
That's Takez?.
You haven't met him yet, have you?
No.
He's a man not particularly well-spoken of in the village?
Well about that...
...he's just a hooligan that even you'll find hard to handle.
One time he asked for a match with a certain man named Arima Nagashi, who was a strategist...
...but even after the match had already been decided as his win...
...Takez? still went and used his oak staff to kill him.
He was every bit like a starving beast...
I'm strong! I'm the strongest!
There's no one in this world stronger than I am!
There are no guys stronger than me and Takez?!
Matahatchi!
Ow, ow... Ma, yer tearin' off my ear!
Come!
Since then...
...everyone in the village has kept their distance from Akuz?.
How much have I cried seeing my son Matahachi...
...keeping company with that barbarian...
And at Sekigahara, too.
My son didn't go willingly; he was tricked into going by Akuz?!
Well then, you are the mother of this Hon'iden Matahachi...
...who went to Sekigahara along with Takez??
Yes. My name is Sugi.
Ah... such a pity.
It seems your son died at Sekigahara.
It can't be...
Matahatchi has?
Is it true? Is it true?!
He's here! After him!
Matahachi! Matahachi is dead?!
Still, don't mourn. We'll take down the enemy of your son!
Matahachi... Matahachi...
Matahachi! Matahachi!
Obaba-sama?!
Heave-ho! Heave-ho! Heave-ho!
Ots?!
Ah!
Where are you off to?
Gon'oji-sama, um...
Obaba-sama of the Hon'iden family has collapsed...
Really?
The doctor...
This is an emergency!
Taking a woman hostage would make you a man who is looked down upon forever!
Takez?!
Takez?...?
Takez?... release Ots?!
Ots??
Don't mind about her; take him!
Resign yourself!
I'm only here to bring word to the Obaba at Hon'iden!
Let me meet Obaba!
What?!
Oh, I'll let you meet her.
Since I'll let you meet her, release Ots?.
Takuan-sama...
Takuan
What's the matter?
Is what you said about coming to bring word to Obaba a lie?
Taking any more lives than this has no meaning. Now...
You promise?
Yeah, I promise.
Come...
Bastard... you tricked me!
I never said I wouldn't capture you.
I will let you meet Obaba.
You rotten priest!
Oi!
Serves you right!
Obaba...
Akuz?, how come only Matahachi died...
...while you came cowardly back alone and acting all shamelessly as well?
You're wrong!
Because of you...
...the Hon'iden clan has lost it's important heir!
Obaba, Matahachi is alive.
He's alive?
Yeah, he's alive.
I came back just so I could tell you that, Obaba.
If that's true, then where is Matahachi?
How come you're the only one who's come back?!
Give me my Matahachi back!
Where is Matahachi?!
You won't tell?
You can't tell, can you?
It was all just a blatant lie.
It ain't no lie!
Matahachi is...
...living in another province with a woman.
A lie. A whopping lie.
It's the truth!
Matahachi made it my duty to tell Obaba that he was safe.
It was the trust of friends. And because I thought of it that way...
...I came back to this village even though I had to make it through...
...the impossible pass of Yamakido while being chased by those hunting down remnants.
If that's the case, then tell me the woman's name.
Where is she and what is she called!
She's a woman named Ok?, who lives at Sekigahara's Mt. Fuwa.
She has a daughter named Akemi from a previous marriage.
Lies! Whopping lies!
Who'd believe anything Akuz? said?
You who let his eyes get picked out by the crows should just die!
Obaba...
Even if Matahachi isn't dead and is with some other woman...
...you are Matahachi's wife, Ots?.
You'll be faithful to him, right?
Takez?.
What a pity.
Has the answer come to you as your strength has faded away, Takez??
Takez?!
What is it, you rotten priest?
You sham priest, Takuan! Hurry and hang me!
Get on with it!
Regrettable, regrettable.
After being born with so much trouble...
...you came to have a nature like that of a wild boar or wolf...
...and so, without having taken even one step towards becoming a human being, you'll end it all here.
Shut up! Be quiet!
Listen, Takez?.
You've become conceited because of your own brute strength.
You're under the conceit there isn't anyone in this world stronger than you are, aren't you?
So what about your plight right now?
My skills didn't lose to yours.
Takez?, I'll give you another night to think about it.
What meaning there is in living as a human being.
And then will I behead you.
Takuan!
Priest Takuan!
Spare me. Okay?
I want to be reborn starting right now.
I don't want to die.
Priest Takuan, spare me! Okay? Save me!
I can't.
A life that's done nothing cannot be reborn.
This world is one that must be played in earnest.
It's a pity, but I cannot untie this rope.
At least so you don't have an unsightly look on your face when you die...
...quietly chant Buddhist prayers...
...and reflect upon the boundary between life and death.
Wait, you rotten priest!
Oi! Takuan!
Takuan!
Takez?-san...
Takez?-san.
Ots?...
Is it true about Matahachi-san?
That he's living in another province with a woman named Ok??
How mortifying...
Vexing... Mortifying...
Stop it!
Don't be stupid!
I no longer have any ties to this village.
Takez?-san...
...take me with you.
If you say you'll take me along with you, then I'll save you, Takez?-san.
Saved...
Spicy!
Ah, I'm sorry.
Obaba!
Takez? has escaped!
What?
Ots?... as well.
What's that?!
Ruffian!
Let's go!
Yes.
Takez?-san, we're being chased... They're catching up!
Sorry!
There they go!
I'm sorry, this is all I brought...
No, I'm fine.
Eat.
Yes.
We'll rest here for tonight.
Here?
Huh?
It's the same everywhere around.
Idiot! Do you want us to be found?
Ah... I... I'm sorry.
It's my first time camping out; I couldn't sleep...
Let's split up here.
You're just becoming a drag on me.
That's not what you promised!
Promised?
If you say you'll take me along with you, then I'll save you, Takez?-san.
Yeah, I'll take you along.
So, hurry... Hurry and help me.
You promise then?
Yeah...
I promise.
So hurry up...
Here goes.
Idiot!
In exchange for my saving you, you promised to take me along with you.
Wasn't it just to take you to another village?
What I said was, "take me along with you." I didn't say how far along.
That's... just quibbling...
Are you trying to change your promise?
Will you betray the path of a samurai?
Let's go!
You've caused us trouble!
The one who cuts your neck gets ten gold pieces.
Let's do it...
Turn around.
Ots?...
Ots?!
Oi!
So... cold.
Ah...
Haven't found them yet?
We've been searching along the riverbank, but I wonder how far along they were carried...
Or if they might possibly be dead already.
In that case, find their corpses!
Yes sir!
Let's go!
Border with En'nami
I've seen the border.
It'll be difficult to break through that gateway.
Let's go down the mountain and get you to a doctor.
Your fever hasn't gone down these last three days.
There's no medicine to give you here either.
At this rate, you'll die.
We'll be killed even if... we do go down the mountain.
Takez?-san, please go and leave me behind here.
If it's just you alone... you could get away.
Thank you for bringing me along this far.
For the first time in my life...
...I feel free.
But, the promise...
You have fulfilled your promise.
Oh, Takez?, you've come at last.
Want some to eat, too?
Umm... it's tasty.
How about some sake?
What's happened to Ots??
Takuan...
Help her.
I'll do anything.
At this rate, Ots? will die.
So...
Please... help her.
By asking for help for Ots?...
...you're saying you'll let yourself be captured.
I don't mind.
Even if I am captured, I don't care.
So, Ots?...
Hurry and save Ots?... Okay?
Please.
Please do this!
You've come a little closer to being a human being.
Himeji Castle
This is Shinmen Takez?.
That you would be dragged here...
...must be some kind of karma.
However, your deeds...
Ikeda Terumasa
...are unpardonable!
Priest Takuan.
Sir!
I will leave the disposition of his punishment up to you.
This humble monk will take that upon himself.
Yeah.
Castle Himeji - Castle Tower Prison
Takez?.
Until I give you pardon, I have ordered you be imprisoned here.
Until he pardons me, huh...
Ots?-san. Are you feeling any better?
Ah, don't. Stay as you are, stay as you are...
Still, well, you've done well in getting this much better...
K?etsu-sama. My?sh?ni-sama. I have become considerably better.
In just a little longer, I think I will be able to set off in search for Takez?-san.
But, the Priest Takuan...
My?sh?ni
...will not tell you where Takez? is, will he?
Hon'ami K?etsu
How will you find him?
I don't know.
But, I feel that is the path I must follow from here on.
Holding something in both hands...
...grants you the freedom of using both left and right hands.
All of you, until I have gained revenge upon...
...the enemies of our family, Takez? and Ots?...
...I will go on a pilgrimage for how ever many years it takes.
During my absence, you the branch family will act as family head...
...and cultivate the paddies and fields.
Got that, all of you?
Yes!
4 Years Later
G?shi - country samurai
Do you intend to return to Miyamoto Village and end up as a G?shi?
My wish is to wander.
I see.
Give him clothing appropriate for his age and some traveling expenses.
Upon your great benevolence and from myself as well, I wish to gratefully offer our thanks.
Yeah.
While you are young, wandering will be good for you.
However, wherever you may go...
...so that you do not forget your upbringing or hometown...
...I will give you the surname of "Miyamoto" from here on.
Yeah.
You will be called Miyamoto. Miyamoto.
Yes! I will do so.
"Musashi" is an alternate reading of the kanji characters for "Takez?"
And, rather than "Takez?," the name "Musashi" would flow better with that.
From the womb of that dark warehouse, today you are reborn into the world of enlightenment.
This is the first day of your birth.
As a completely new person...
...what is it you will come to know?
Yeah, yeah.
Miyamoto Musashi, huh?
This sword is the work of Hiradosaha Morihiro.
Come and take it.
Treasure it.
Yes sir!
You said you would wander, but where do your true feelings lie?
My true feelings?
Yeah.
My true feelings haven't changed since that time at Sekigahara.
I want to be a success in life.
But instead of through battles this time around...
...I will push my way upwards through the power of the sword.
If I become unequaled in the ways of the sword...
...that will open the way for my service in the Tokugawa government, won't it?
Someday, I will become a Lord, just like Yagy? Sekish?sai has.
To think that the wild beast has become a human being.
The next time we meet, you'll be full of human traits.
As my first step, I will defeat Yoshioka Seij?r? of Kyoto.
Then my name will resound across the entire country.
The name "Miyamoto Musashi," huh...
Yeah.
We'll meet again.
Kyoto - Yoshioka D?j?
In Nishinotoin, at the Nishino crossroad...
Heian Yoshioka Training Hall
...there was a house of swordplay known to the people of Kyoto...
...as the Yoshioka Martial Arts Style.
Yoshioka Martial Arts Style
Yoshioka Seij?r?
Ashikaga - one-time rulers of Japan, from 1333-1568
Having once served the Ashikaga clan as its martial arts instructors...
...they were said to be the best in the world ever since the Ashikaga era.
Please stop by my place.
I'll play with all of you later.
Seij?r?-sama.
Akemi
Huh?
Wasn't tobacco forbidden recently?
Everyone just hides when they smoke.
Akemi, want to try it, too?
It's still too early for you.
I wish for a match with Yoshioka Seij?r?-sensei.
No.
Where are you going?
Well, let's do it.
I'll be scolded by Mother.
Ok? is right over there, having relations with T?ji.
Sake... I'll bring sake.
Never mind about that.
Let's go see the Okuni Kabuki dance performance along the Shij? riverbank.
Gion T?ji
Do you have another customer?
Ok?
Later...
Were you peeping at us, you good-for-nothing?
Who's the good-for-nothing?
Being caught at it by your husband; you're the good-for-nothing.
When we met, it was you who said I could earn money, wasn't it?
That I and Akemi would earn it.
Allowing his wife and daughter-in-law to work...
...while you drink and just hang around every day...
Where do you get the right to complain!
Just stop making a living in the red-light district!
If we did stop, just how would we eat starting tomorrow?
Even if it means carrying castle stones on my back, I'll feed you.
How tough can it be? Making a living for two or three people.
If you want to be a stone bearer so much, then leave on your own and live a single life.
Your roots are as a hick from Sakush? Province, after all.
It may be that sort of work suits your nature.
Since I won't say anything forcing you to stay...
...whenever you don't like this, feel free to go anytime you want.
Damn...
Damn it!
Why... Why didn't I...
...go back to the village along with Takez?...
Get a grip!
Come on!
Ueda Ry?hei
You still don't know where the Young Master is?!
Well, I've sent out groups searching here and there for him...
Ah! Are you okay?!
At money... At work...
The reason I haven't been able to be a success in life...
All of it... it's all Ok?'s fault!
It's because of her that I'm so useless!
I will leave! I will live alone!
Excuse me! Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me!
I'm a messenger from the Yoshioka's at Shij?...
...but has the Young Master or T?ji-dono come here?
Don't know.
Well, well...
Just passing along this message to them would be fine.
Mushashugy? - one who travels around gaining skills in combat
Tell them that a Mushashugy? from Sakush? Province...
...has stopped by our d?j? and is confronting the pupils alone...
...and could they please return at once.
A man from Sakush? Province? Who's the guy?
A r?nin by the name, Miyamoto Musashi.
Huh? Sakush?'s Miyamoto?
Takez?!
What is this person?!
What's happened...
What have you guys been doing until now?!
Where's the Young Master?
I don't know!
He's vanished off to somewhere.
If Yoshioka Seij?r? won't come out, doing any more than this is pointless!
I will return.
I figured it was him.
It is Takez?.
Damn it... Even I... Even I...
I'm strong.
Who should I try next?
H?z?in's Nikkan?
Or Yagy? Sekish?sai?
Akemi?
Takez??
Akemi, what's the matter?
Watch out there.
Seij?r?...
Yoshioka Seij?r?.
What is it?
I am the Sakush? r?nin, Miyamoto Musashi.
I wish for a match against you.
You aren't at a point right now where you can challenge me.
It'd be impossible.
When this same moon comes out once again...
One month from now...
Hour of the Dog: from 7pm - 9pm
...in the Hour of the Dog...
...come to the Sanj?sangen-d? Temple.
I will be your opponent then.
Miyamoto Musashi...
If we allow that guy to run around loose like this, it will be to the shame of the Yoshioka d?j?.
Young Master! Please wait!
Yoshioka Seij?r?.
While you are playing around with women...
I will...
...become stronger than you.
Fushimi Castle
Oi! What's the matter?!
I'm sorry; just let me rest for a minute.
You're a spineless sissy, aren't you?
Damn it... Takez?, that jerk.
If I hadn't been lured by Takez? into going to Sekigahara...
Someone!
Please... help us.
Akemi? Who is it?
I wouldn't have met Ok? and would have married Ots? instead...
...and would have become head of the Hon'iden clan...
...and been the envy of all the people.
Ah... How am I supposed to live?
Are you in pain?
It's medicine. Take it.
Thank you very much.
The view is wonderful here.
Are you a Mushashugy??
Yeah. Although I'm on my way to Kyoto...
...I'm making an observational study of the various countries castles for future reference...
A spy! Entering the castle like this without permission!
Eh? No, no...
That guy was only making drawings...
He might have been copying the topography of the castle's construction.
Dispose of him!
Eh?
This...
Eh?
Please...
Eh? Eh? Eh? Eh?
Eh?
I wonder what this is?
A certificate of swordsmanship.
Sasaki Kojir?
That guy was named Sasaki Kojir?, huh?
I feel sorry for him. In the middle of his training and all...
Nara Province
As his match with Yoshioka Seij?r? was another month away...
...Miyamoto Musashi, in order to win against Seij?r?, was heading to Nara Province's H?z?in Temple.
H?z?in Temple
Agon
Next!
Yes!
Called the Spears of H?z?in Temple...
...those pupils who took lessons from the masters of martial arts here...
...had taken a vow that they wouldn't make any complaints...
...even if the violence and intensity of the spears caused their deaths.
Is that Nikkan?
No.
His name is Agon and he's our best pupil. He's not Nikkan.
Still, generally during a match...
...he is said to be H?z?in Temple's "Seven Feet" because he can deal with seven pupils at a time...
...and our teacher Nikkan was personally present during one such example of that.
Next!
Who will be next?!
How about you?
No.
That would be... You go.
How about you?
I... I'm not ready, yet...
How about you there?
No, my mind hasn't improved enough...
What will you do?
Please.
Please what?
Please allow me to try.
Oi!
Here I come!
Wait!
Fool. Priest Agon, you are a big fool.
Look carefully.
Your opponent is a little different from the others.
This match... would be a waste.
What are you saying?!
Shall we do this?
Guest.
Huh?
Your name is Miyamoto Musashi.
Yes.
You are strong. Far too strong.
No, I'm not that much...
Even so, you should become much weaker.
Huh?
Earlier, when I was in the vegetable fields, you passed by me, didn't you?
Yes.
At that moment, rather than just passing by me...
...you instead jumped back nine feet before moving on.
Why did you behave in such a manner?
It was because I sensed a terrible thirst for blood from you...
...and I felt you were going to swing at my feet with that hoe.
And anyway, though you were digging at the soil of your field...
...weren't you searching for a weakness in me?
It was the other way around.
The other way around?
Ten minutes before you walked by...
...I could feel your thirst for blood...
...through the tip of my hoe.
As you drew closer, in each and every step...
...I could increasingly sense your battle fury and ambition.
If a person had passed by me at that time...
...and it had been just a farmer or something...
...I would have been just some decrepit old man hacking away at the vegetables in his field, right?
That thirst for blood you felt...
...was but a shadow figure of mine.
You were surprised by that shadow...
...and jumped aside on your own.
Who at H?z?in Temple are you?
Me?
For H?z?in and it's neighbor, Oz?in Temple...
...I am their Chief Priest, Nikkan.
Chief Priest Nikkan
You're Nikkan?
H?z?in's... Master of the Spear?
That's right.
Excuse me. If that's the case, I wish a match with you.
You and I?
I went to all the trouble to visit H?z?in...
...because I wanted to see H?z?in Temple's spear methods.
Stop it. It's a waste of your time.
Why?
What spear mastery H?z?in has...
...you generally saw in Agon's performance today.
What would be the point in you seeing any more than that?
Well, if you do wish to know more...
...then just...
...look into my eyes.
Go to Yagy?.
If it's with Sekish?sei, he can show you things good enough for you.
Hey. These drinks are good, huh?
Can I join you?
Go ahead.
I'm the Gam? r?nin by the name, Akakabe Yasoma.
Ban Dan'emon - famous samurai general, 1567-1615
Do you know of Ban Dan'emon?
He and I are sworn pals and we'll get together again someday.
Akakabe Yasoma
Also over at Osaka Castle right now...
...there's the distinguished general, Susukida Hayato Kanesuke...
...and that man and I used to travel through the countries as r?nin back during our wandering period.
By the way, who are you?
Do you know the founder of the Tomita Style of martial arts, Toda Seigen-sensei?
I've only heard the name, though.
I have received the traditions of and reached First Rank in the Ch?j? Style...
...from the unselfish and great enlightened hermit named Kanemaki Jisai...
...who was my teacher.
Well then, you're a true swordsman?
That's right.
And... What did this Ch?j? Style give you for a name?
If you have no objections, your full name.
Please tell us...
...your full name.
Ch?j? Style, full mastership...
...I am Sasaki Kojir?.
Eh?!
That is to say, I'm joking...
Sorry for not having recognized you!
If you are Sasaki Kojir?-dono...
...we especially want to hear about your way of the sword, Master!
Okay... Keep still.
Good boy, good boy.
That's quite the sword you've got there.
One you don't see much of in the capital, either.
It's a good sword.
It's one handed down to me through my family.
It's great if you can handle it freely...
Although I see many a man with such fine, long swords swaggering about...
...when the going gets tough, they shoulder those swords and run away.
Sorry for being rude, but what style of fighting did you study?
There... go.
The Ch?j? Style.
By cutting down swallows and slashing at willows...
...I devised a technique of my own.
Are you from Osaka?
No, I'm from Kyoto. I'm on my way to see Yagy?.
Kyoto... Kyoto, is it?
I've heard there's a man named Yoshioka Seij?r? in Kyoto...
Would he be at his d?j? even now?
I'd like to have a match with him once, no matter what.
Though they are rumored across the countries as being masters of the martial arts...
Or were at first; though I've also heard it said the Yoshioka's were already done for.
I see...
Seems there's plenty of such braggarts claiming reputations these days.
By the way, you said earlier...
...that you could cut down swallows, didn't you?
Yes, I said that.
Well then, it should be easy for you...
...to cut down these seagulls above the ship as well, shouldn't it?
No, no...
I don't feel like making such a performance.
Don't you know of the proverb about those with a little learning?
Either quit bragging about that Ch?j? Style...
...or cut down some of these seagulls!
Look, if you're gonna talk big; show off that big talk to him!
Was I talking big?
I am Yoshioka Seij?r?'s younger brother...
...Yoshioka Denshichir?.
Yoshioka Denshichir?
I can't let you get away with going around...
...talking trash about the Yoshiokas.
Country hicks are a cheeky bunch these days.
Denshichir?-sensei.
What is it?
If I were to cut down a seagull, would that convince you I'm not bragging?
Yeah.
In that case...
I'll cut one down.
Denshichir?-sensei, please lend me your assistance.
Please call on the seagull you'd like for me to cut down.
I will even cut down several of them for you.
Shut up!
If seagulls could be called for, then anyone could cut them down!
The sea is many myriad of miles wide; my sword is only three feet long.
I can't cut down those which don't even come close to me.
If you can't do it, then just apologize honestly that you can't.
Well then...
...in place of a seagull, let's see what else there is I could cut down for you.
Please pardon me this for today.
Hey you!
Bastard!
Ah, come, come. Okay, I've caught you. I've caught you. There, there, there...
Okay, let's play, let's play. Okay, that's it, that's it.
Look, what a nice breeze.
Ots?...
Ots?!
Sorry... Wrong person.
Koyagyu Castle
The very best of this era...
...and the top martial arts master was Yagy? Sekish?sai Muneyoshi.
Yagy? Sekish?sai Muneyoshi
Countless masters of the martial arts would either beg him to train them...
...or they would visit Yagy? in order to defeat him and thus gain their fame...
Kimura Sukekuro
...but Sekish?sai himself had already retired.
Debuchi Magobee
Of those within his family who concerned themselves in the training practices...
...there was Yagy? Shiten'no.
Murata Y?z?
Hey! Throw from your hips! Your hips!
Stretch out your arms!
Let's see some spirit!
Shoda Kizaemon
Not from the tip of your sword! Your belly! Your belly!
Take this and make our greetings to that little Yoshioka brat.
Okay, Ots??
Yes.
It seems Sekish?sai-dono...
...is somehow under the impression I wished to receive tea ceremony lessons from him.
I was expecting him to instruct me in swordsmanship...
He understands that perfectly.
However, it has recently become a habit of his to see off his remaining years with friends...
...in the beauty of nature and with tea ceremonies.
I'll have to give it up.
Well then, please tell him...
...that whenever I come to revisit him, I would like to see him.
Did you throw away that chrysanthemum?
I gave it to a girl at the inn.
Hmm...
That little Yoshioka brat... the one named Denshichir?...
He took that chrysanthemum in his hand and looked at it?
Yes.
Hmm... And then?
He just returned it to me as it was.
He didn't look at the cut in the stem?
No, not really...
What can I do to meet Sekish?sai...
How can I beat Yoshioka Seij?r?...
Sir.
Do you like flowers?
Flowers?
Yeah, I like 'em.
Then, I'll bring a vase.
Ah.
It won't fit, Sir. The stem is too long.
Then hold it up.
I'll cut it so it's about the right length.
Hold it like it seems to be blooming from the ground...
That's it, that's it.
Kyaa!
Why have you come to the castle? Hmm?
I have a letter from a guest staying at our inn.
Ah... you don't have to pass that along to me.
It's just another aspiring student who wants lessons in our methods...
Well, it's something like that, right?
Ah, I forgot.
And then... he asked me to give you this, too.
Hmm?
Honored guest, this mountain retreat has nothing much in it.
Please, just relax.
I'll accept this.
How can I get close to Sekish?sai?
You seem to be strong.
From your letter...
...you asked about who had cut that chrysanthemum...
This was...
...cut by the Great Lord of our family.
I thought so.
How can I get close to Sekish?sai...?
How could you tell just by looking at the cut end of this thin, flexible stem...
...that it had been made by a genius swordsman?
Even we couldn't have told that it had been cut by our Great Lord.
Do this tonight because I won't get a second chance to get close to Sekish?sai.
It was him?
That's right.
We couldn't have told.
I guess it takes a genius to recognize another genius.
For the sake of our future reference...
...we'd like you to give us an explanation tonight as to how you could tell that...
There won't be a second chance.
Ordinary men like you...
...would never understand.
What?!
Sensing something is sensing it.
There's no way I can put it so as to explain it to you.
If you forcibly want to see those feelings...
...there's no other way but to take out your swords and face me.
Where are you going?
To the Lord of Toshiro. I've come to see Sekish?sai.
To meet our Great Lord? What have you a mind to do?
I'm a fledgling in the training of strategies.
I want to beg the creator of the Yagy? Style and his knowledge of a lifetime...
...to teach me of his moves.
But Sekish?sai never sees anyone.
I heard he is a practitioner in austerities and doesn't give lessons.
Therefore, I...
...will first propose battle with the people of this castle.
Okay... Sounds interesting.
A battle sounds interesting.
Even without the clangs and bells ringing from a war camp...
...I will accept your challenge in answer for the knowledge you seek.
Do you hear, everyone?!
He is not to meet the Great Lord!
Cut him down!
Don't let him escape!
Don't let him get away!
This battle has been your loss.
Die!
Die! Die!
Kodachi - the smaller of the two swords samurai carry
Now that you've drawn out your Kodachi...
Twin Sword Style...!
Wait!
Don't let him escape! Chase him!
Ots?!
You played the flute well again today.
Don't let him get away! Chase him!
It appears there's a fuss over at the main house...
Hmm?
A black-headed rat must have slipped in among them.
Search for him.
You guys look for him as well.
Yes sir!
Keep an eye out here.
Is it here...?
Excuse me.
Ots?!
Takez?-san?!
Takez?-san!
I've been looking for you all this time.
After we parted at that cave...
...I've believed we would meet again someday.
I've always believed it was my destiny...
...that we would surely meet again.
I was sure the sound of that flute last night was yours, Ots?.
I'm so happy...
...that you do remember me.
Ever since that day...
...there hasn't been a moment when I had forgotten about you either, Takez?-san.
No, truth is...
Not once since that day when you returned to the village, Takez?-san...
Have you been traveling around gaining skills in combat?
That's right.
I'm not called Takez? now...
...but by the name of Miyamoto Musashi.
Miyamoto Musashi-sama...
Ots?, are you living here now?
Yes. I am connected to them.
How about you, Musashi-sama?
I came to see the man who cut the stem of this chrysanthemum.
Ah, this is...
With me?
Great Lord.
Great Lord?
Yagy? Sekish?sai!
I am Miyamoto Musashi.
Teach me your moves...
I am already retired. I don't do matches.
But, I will reward you for recognizing the cut on that chrysanthemum. I will teach you.
And, what on earth...
...is it you want to know?
What should I do to win against Yoshioka Seij?r??
Tell me that.
Hmm...
Try to cut that chrysanthemum.
Ots?.
Yes.
Your eyes are good.
But, your ears are bad.
Huh?
I heard the sound of it.
That is a sound that should never be heard.
What do you mean?
Musashi-sama, if you wish to ask him about it, I will call for the Great Lord to return.
Wait!
Sorry.
Never mind.
Wait!
Please... take me along with you, too.
I... want to live along with you, Musashi-sama.
I can't.
I will be in training everyday from here on...
I won't have time to spend with you, Ots?.
Musashi-sama...
I feel I have found...
...the one and only person in this world for me.
It's you, Musashi-sama!
Say what you will...
...but I will not take you along with me.
The time I have spent here at Yagy?'s village has not gone to waste.
As I served the Great Lord...
...I learned a little about what it is to be a Mushashugy?.
I wouldn't interfere with your training.
Never would I interfere with you...
Please wait here.
Because I'll come right back.
I would hate it...
...if you left.
Ah, Sir... I haven't received your payment for the bill yet.
What?
You haven't inadvertently forgotten, have you?
I haven't forgotten anything.
That second serving... I haven't received payment on that second serving of sake yet.
Ah, the bill for that, huh...
I am sorry about this.
I don't have any money.
Eh?
Oi...
What should I do?
Although I had some until recently...
I done went and drank it all away!
Oi!
Sensei!
Well then jerk, ya've been drinkin' with your pockets empty?
Just who do you think I am?
I think yer a cowardly, fat thief and a garbage r?nin.
So what about it?
I'll tell you!
Don't be surprised upon hearing my name though.
Who would be surprised at that?
I am Sasaki Kojir?.
Don't you know of Kojir?, Master of the Ch?j? Style?
That's Sasaki Kojir??
Sasaki Kojir??
Whaa!
Oi! Who are you?
I am a mere r?nin.
But, if you are the real Sasaki Kojir?...
...you should carry a certificate to that effect.
Do you doubt me?
This is my certificate.
Well, well, Sasaki Kojir?-dono...
That I was able to meet you in a place like this must be karma.
Allow me to pay his drinking bill.
Oh! You have a good mental attitude.
Hey, hey, hey... Don't go payin' fer dis guy.
He'll make a habit of it.
Oi! Eh? I don't know this Sasaki guy or what...
...but it's jerks like you...
...who almost always skip out on der bar bills!
Iffen ya ain'ts got da money, den let me hit yer head da once!
Ah, geez!
Never mind that...
What's that? Hit me?
Sounds interesting. I dare you to hit me!
What a joke!
You mustn't kill in a place such as this.
Thank you for today. You helped me so much.
Won't you tell me your name?
I'm not a person who gives out their name.
Isn't it okay? We're friends, after all.
Right? Hey, just tell me your name.
It's just a coincidence, but...
My name... is also Sasaki Kojir?.
What became of the man who held the seal case you keep at your waist?
What became of the man who was holding that certificate?
At Fushimi Castle, he was mistaken for a spy and killed...
I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
I'm sorry...
I see.
My senior disciple, Kusanagi Tenori, whom I was to receive this Ch?j? Style certificate from...
...I have now surely received it from Sasaki Kojir? instead...
Sasaki Kojir?-dono.
Our having the same name... must be some sort of karma as well.
I am pleased to make your acquaintance.
Hey! Kojir?!
I know of a guy who's stronger than you!
Sakush? Province, Takez? of Miyamoto village.
His current name is Miyamoto Musashi.
A man named Miyamoto Musashi!
Miyamoto Musashi...
I'll remember that.
Hmm... Let's see...
Ganry?... (Large Rock Style)
Ganry?
Sasaki Kojir?
Should I go by that name?
On the day of his match with Yoshioka Seij?r?...
...Miyamoto Musashi had finally arrived in Kyoto.
I lost...
I lost!
I lost...
I lost!
I'm a fledgling...
A fledgling!
Just a fledgling!
You there.
Yeah! I'm so happy! Young Master.
Okay, let's go.
Sensei... Sensei!
Pretty, aren't you?
Yomogi
Sensei. Sensei.
I told you, I'm ticklish.
Sake.
Here you go.
I don't care much for that other woman...
...you brought along with you.
Well, don't say that.
Speaking of which, where did that pimp of yours get off to?
He flew the coop...
They all disappear in the end.
Tell Ma I'm sorry 'bout Ots?. But I've made up my mind.
I'm not going back to Miyamoto.
Matahachi...
Matahachi!
Takez?...
Seij?r?-sama...
K?etsu!
Ow, ow, ow...
Ah, it hurts, it hurts...
Are you okay? Are you ill?
Yes. A sudden spasm of pain...
Ots?!
Obaba-sama!
Hurts! Ow, ow, ow...
I am truly sorry about that earlier.
At the moment I looked at you, Musashi-dono...
...somehow a bloody stench seemed to appear before me...
...and I was scared.
A bloody stench...
Looking at him now...
...he doesn't seem to be a man such as that, does he?
Well, well, what can we say in apology?
Musashi-dono, do you know of what is called the Path of Sujaku?
The Path of Sujaku?
The red-light district of Rokuj?.
When you say red-light district... That place where they have prostitutes?
Yes.
At this very moment, I have been given a letter of invitation to there...
If you'd like, Musashi-dono...
...won't you come along with me to see the playground district of Rokuj? together?
I have an appointment for today.
Ah... And what time is that at?
Hour of the Dog - between 7pm and 9pm
At the Hour of the Dog.
Ah, in that case, you still... have plenty of free time left until then.
It's an important appointment.
Musashi-dono, you should listen obediently when an old person tells you something.
But before that, you should change clothes.
Change clothes?
What time is it right now?
Hour of the Bird - 5pm - 7pm
The Hour of the Bird.
I see...
Are you leaving?
Just on some minor business. I'll be back soon.
Well then, I'll come again.
Thank you very much.
Obaba-sama, your inn... Are we near to your inn yet?
Sorry. It's just a little further ahead.
Obaba-sama...
Please forgive me for everything up till now.
I won't make any more excuses from here on.
What are you saying?
I wouldn't have borne a grudge against you forever just for changing your mind.
There was a time when I hated the thought of you as my daughter-in-law...
...but that's all water under the bridge now.
Well then, you will please forgive me? For my selfishness...
Ow, ow, ow!
Obaba-sama?
Ots?, set me down here.
What I just said, was a lie!
You bitch!
Don't run away!
Obaba-sama, please forgive me!
I won't!
Ahh!
Stop! Stop! Stop!
You say it'll be "before long," "before long"...
...but just when on earth do I get to see Yoshino Day?, whom I came here for?!
Well, J?y?-dono...
Let go! Let go!
Just wait and she'll play for you.
Now! Now, now, now...
I've come from so far away just to see Yoshino Day?!
Don't tell me you want to assist me, do you?
I will defeat Musashi alone.
I won't need your assistance.
But, Elder Brother...
You won't listen to what your brother says?
Young Master...
That day...
Those of us who were here the day Musashi came to our d?j?...
We want to take revenge on Musashi!
We have no intention of interfering with you in the slightest.
But at least...
At least during your match...!
Allow us to watch Musashi's fall for ourselves!
That's right, Elder Brother. All of us wish for that.
In that case, how about Denshichir? alone coming?
Denshichir? will witness it in place of all of you.
I will not accept the attendance of anyone else.
Sensei! Me, too!
Ueda...
What is it of the Yoshioka Defense Style that you protect?
Tenkachi's sword.
Don't worry.
Sir? Where are you going?
I'll return right away.
Truly?
If you don't return, I may be scolded harshly...
In that case...
D?fuku - canonical robe
I'll leave this d?fuku in your charge.
If...
Hour of the Boar - 9pm - 11pm
...I have not returned by the Hour of the Boar...
...I want you to hand that d?fuku over to K?etsu-dono.
You must be sure and return.
Your courtesan partner for tonight...
...is to be the one I attend upon, Yoshino Day?-san.
Could you come?
Yoshino Day?
Yoshino Day?-sama!
My eyes are good, but my ears are bad...
Ears...
Huh? What's the matter?
Are you scared?
There, there, good boy...
Hear the sound...
I should never hear... the sound.
Tomorrow at 9pm
Part 2
Yoshioka Seij?r?, let's go.
Hurry and come.
Yoshioka Seij?r? and Musashi's Stuggle To The Death
At last, the battle with Yoshioka Seij?r? has come.
What will the outcome of their match be?
Don't let Musashi get out of the red-light district!
Revenge On Musashi
Search for him!
You appear to be a man who could be slashed to death at any moment.
Take me along, too.
A harsh fate tosses about the couple who love one another.
Ots? and Musashi's Harsh Fate
I just want to be together with Musashi-sama!
Swear here that you won't think about Musashi!
Matahachi!
Ma!
Do it.
76 men from Yoshioka... It's totally like a war battle, isn't it?
Ichijoji Sagarimatsu 76 Men vs 1 Man
I'll win and become unrivaled.
Musashi challenges the vengeful Yoshioka clan into a reckless battle.
And then, at last...
Decisive Battle at Ganry?jima A Fierce Ending!
With his goal of being the top swordsman in Japan...
...the story of Miyamoto Musashi reaches it's emotional climax.
Let's go.
Now...
Tomorrow at 9 pm Conclusion!
Tomorrow at 9 pm. The conclusion.