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What is it?
A dream.
A million enemies surrounded me.
Musket Company 3, forward march!
Tell leyasu this:
While I fight Lord Asai,
he should ride out himself to challenge Shingen.
Sending a token force won't tell us whether Shingen is dead or alive.
I didn't know the priests were still here.
They return to Sakai today.
Wait.
One of them was a man of medicine.
Send him to pay Shingen a sympathy visit.
A visit from an enemy camp might be difficult.
Idiot. You think I don't know that?
Use Nobutora.
The geezer's at loose ends in Kyoto since his own son Shingen banished him.
They can't turn away a messenger from him.
He has servants who know Shingen well.
With one of them along, we can learn the truth.
Settle down!
Amari and Okudaira have turned coat!
Noda Castle and Nagashino Castle have fallen to leyasu!
Here goes, Takemaru.
You're good, Grandfather.
Another war?
Are you scared?
No. But you'll be gone. I'll miss you.
Noda and Nagashino have fallen. Where is leyasu?
He and his men have surrounded Futamata Castle.
Katsuyori's gone to battle!
What?
On his own, without consulting us?
Where did he go?
Takatenjin.
Takatenjin Castle?
Not a bad strategy.
If he takes the castle, leyasu will be threatened.
Only if he takes it.
Even his father failed to take it.
I don't think he can.
Ieyasu has a chance to attack him from the rear.
You may go.
We have no choice.
We must send our troops
to show his father is behind him.
That's right.
When leyasu sees Shingen's banners, he'll stay away.
Sire!
A messenger has arrived from Master Nobutora.
From Father?
What is the message?
Your father has sent a foreign physician to pay our lord a sympathy visit.
This way, please.
He says Father sent him..
but I'm suspicious.
Someone else is behind this.
They sent a doctor to see what they could find out about our lord.
But if we send them away, it will raise suspicions.
Very well.
We'll let them see the double.
Maybe this will dispel enemy doubts about whether Shingen is still with us.
All right.
We'll leave that to you.
The rest of us must prepare to march!
Fall in!
I'll take you to him.
I'll take your sword.
Groom!
His horse isn't needed!
Please wait here.
Well, well, Taguchi. Long time no see.
- Is my father well? - Yes, sir.
It was good of you to come.
Since Lord Shingen fell ill with a high fever
after the battle of Mikata,
it seemed prudent to pull back.
But he's now fully recovered.
Taguchi.
I'm pleased to find you well.
This boy is my heir, Takemaru.
I'm pleased to make your acquaintance.
Thank you.
The lord has no ailments now, but since you are here..
approach.
I understand my lord was wounded at Kawanakajima
by Kenshin's sword.
Has the wound healed well?
Indeed. All that remains of that wound is the tale to tell.
It's nothing.
May I take your pulse?
It's such a shame.
I'd like to sit a while and hear all about Father.
But as you can see, we're preparing to march.
Indeed, my lord.
MAY, 1574
The lord's banners in the rear!
MOUNTAIN
Do not move.
No matter what happens, stay calm and do not move.
Understand?
Not again!
He stands behind me at every battle!
He treats me like a child!
Let him.
We will take over this castle with our own hands
and show the chief retainers who's who.
Tell the men on the line
to break into the castle tonight!
No, burn it!
Wind Company, present!
Forest Company
and Fire Company, present!
Fire Company, on guard!
Forest Company, on guard!
Wind Company, forward!
What's that sound?
A group of horsemen are coming this way.
Why would our flank guard move?
Whose flags are they?
There are none.
Were those shots ours or theirs?
I cannot tell.
Now I see!
Enemy musketmen!
Horses, back!
Make walls of those lances.
Battle formation!
Forest, on guard, forward!
Wind, on guard, flanks!
Fire, on guard, rear left!
Fire, open to right!
Flank guard, right!
Company 3, on guard, rear!
Company 1, right!
Fire, Company 3, right!
Wind, open to left!
The enemy! A raid!
Keep calm.
Let them go!
Come back!
Enemy on the left hillside!
Enemy on the left. Attack!
Enemy's retreated!
Return to original battle formation!
Look.
They died protecting you.
Imagine you are already crucified. Do not move.
What's that?
Enemy on the right.
The banner bears the mark of Hon.
It's Heihachi Honda, one of Tokugawa's bravest generals!
Halt!
Far enough!
Pull back!
Do not move!
Companies to left!
Good work.
According to their report,
far from being dead, Shingen is in the best of health.
So it would seem.
- Bring me wine. - Right away, sire.
For some reason, I cannot help feeling
that Shingen is dead.
I have the same feeling.
Why?
I do not know.
Something tells me so.
We both want Shingen dead. It would help us greatly.
So we anticipate his death.
We want to believe he's dead.
Maybe that is all.
The color is like blood, but this is European sake.
What's the matter?
Do you not like it?
Well, then.
I need to go put down that religious uprising in Ise.
I have much to do.
Raise the curtain!
On your feet!
I arrived too late to help you.
This gold expresses my regrets.
I will leave Takeda to you.
Farewell.
Nobody can deny that you took Takatenjin Castle.
Even your father failed to take it.
You're wrong!
It is true I took the castle.
But the credit does not go to me.
It goes to the phantom of my late father
that frightened the enemy away.
Try as I might,
I cannot escape my father's shadow.
The chief retainers are to blame.
They use the lord's double to make you look small.
Where's the mountain?
In the garden, with Takemaru.
This will not do.
I told you one of you must always be with him.
I am sorry.
He's now accustomed to living in this house.
He has become sure of himself since Takatenjin.
He's doing well.
It's as if our late lord had possessed him.
And he's charmed Takemaru, too.
The child loves him.
It makes me sad to see it.
That is so.
It's a cruel thing to do.
Someday Takemaru will learn the truth.
It will not be long.
The three years the lord wished us to hide his death
are already more than half gone.
When the day comes,
Takemaru will not be the only one to be pitied.
What will happen to the double?
A shadow cannot exist without the person.
When it's finally known that the person is gone,
what will happen to the shadow?
Where is your grandfather?
He's amazing!
Only he can ride that horse.
Lord Shingen!
Lord Nobukado, he has no scar!
The wound he got at Kawanakajima.
So he is an impersonator after all.
Grandfather!
This man is not your grandfather.
He's an impersonator.
Grandfather!
How foolish.
He could deceive men,
but not the horse!
No.
I am to blame.
Not at all.
It's a miracle the secret has lasted this long.
We owe it all to you.
Lord Katsuyori has arrived.
The play is over.
Lord Katsuyori is our master now.
From Nobukado.
He appreciates all you've done.
And this is with the compliments of the other generals.
Take it.
Well, then..
keep well.
Go away! Get out of here!
I want to see Takemaru and say good-bye.
Takemaru? What impudence!
How dare you!
Go!
APRIL 1575
Quiet!
What's that?
They conducted Shingen's funeral?
That's just like Shingen.
For three years after his death,
he successfully deceived me.
Even the 50 years of a man's life
Are short compared to that of this world
Life is but a dream
A vision
An illusion
Life, once given
Cannot last forever
Life, once given
Cannot last forever
Katsuyori has left his domain with 25,000 soldiers,
heading for Nagashino.
What? The mountain has moved!
My lord,
what do you think that light is that's barring your path?
A rainbow.
You're wrong!
It is your late father's instructions not to proceed.
He's telling you to stay in your domain and guard it.
Those were your father's last words.
If you do that, nothing can harm us.
Harm? An ominous word.
Since the time of our ancestors,
the Takeda have never run from a fight.
Forward!
MAY 21, 1575
FIRE FOREST WIND
Wind and Fire..
this will be the end of our clan.
Farewell.
I will go first.
Wind and Forest..
we will meet again where Lord Shingen is.
Attention!
Takeda will be no more.
Once the mountain has moved, it is finished.
Messenger!
Tell the gunners to shoot the horses first.
The Takeda cavalry cannot fight without horses.
WIND
FOREST
FIRE
SWIFT AS THE WIND QUIET AS A FOREST
FIERCE AS FIRE IMMOVABLE AS A MOUNTAIN
Produced by AKIRA KUROSAWA and TOMOYUKI TANAKA
International Version Produced by
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA GEORGE LUCAS
Screenplay by AKIRA KUROSAWA and MASATO IDE
Cinematography by TAKAO SAITO and MASAHARU UEDA
Production Design by YOSHIRO MURAKI
Music by SHINICHIRO IKEBE
The Cast:
TATSUYA NAKADAI TSUTOMU YAMAZAKI
KENICHI HAGIWARA JINPACHI NEZU, HIDEJI OTAKI
DAISUKE RYU, MASAYUKI YUI KAORI MOMOI, MITSUKO BAISHO
TAKASHI SHIMURA KAMATARI FUJIWARA
Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA
THE END