Come on!
Samurai-sama, please wait!
Young lady...
I can't keep myself from wanting to cut this man down.
Do not neglect your sword's care.
I've sharpened it for you.
Killing a man truly makes you a samurai.
The fact that I'm risking my life for people like this is laughable enough to make me cry.
But we samurai are going to carry through!
We're going to cut down every last one of those bandits!
That makes all seven of us.
wakari aeru koto mo
Being able to understand each other,
wakachi au koto mo
and to share with each other,
utakata no youni
are both as short-lived as a bubble on the water.
toki no suna ni magire
Obscured by the sands of time,
tsukami kirenai to
unable to hold on,
akirameteta anata ni au made wa
I gave up, until I saw you again, asking
"dore kurai itami wo
"How much pain
hitori de kakaete kite tano?
have you been carrying, all alone?
dore kurai sabishisa
And how much loneliness
hitomi ni kakushite hohoen dano?"
is hidden behind your eyes when you smile?"
deai no kiseki wo ima dakishimete
Embrace this miracle of an encounter now,
mitsume attara tsuyoku nareru
By gazing upon each other, we can become stronger.
kore wo ai to yobanai tosuru nara
And if this isn't what you call love,
ima dore wo ai to yobu no?
then what is it you call love now?
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Begging your pardon...
Oh, my, Samurai-sama.
You've come through all of this thick fog to see me.
Well, please, come on in.
No, here will be fine.
Those belong to Kirara.
She appears to be quite well read.
She gets them delivered by rapidturtle, or by peddlers, and such.
She has always liked books.
Perhaps that is why she is always casting her eyes outside the village.
Grandmother, I have returned.
Ooh, Katsu-noji!
Come now, Komachi, call him Katsushiro-sama.
Is something the matter, Kanbe-sama?
There's a favor I'd like to ask of you.
A favor?
Mm-hmm. Before long, the bandits will be coming.
When that happens, I'd like for the women and children to hide in here.
If that makes you uneasy, I can post Katsushiro here to protect you.
No, do not worry about that. Right, Grandmother?
Mm-hmm. We'll be all right.
Katsushiro-sama, you may fight as hard as you wish.
Kirara-dono, may I have a moment?
Katsushiro-sama?
Mm-hmm. Not being able to cut anyone down without the just cause of defending others,
I must say that he is still too emotionally naive.
I...
I will not let Katsushiro-sama go through these painful experiences alone.
I am the one who set Katsushiro-sama on this carnal path.
If he is to become stained with blood, then I will cleanse him of that blood.
I am the one who was responsible for bringing everyone here.
I see...
Then there is nothing for me to say.
May your battle be victorious.
This is disturbing, huh?
Things are becoming more complicated.
Okara-chan, what's becoming more complicated?
That's a secret between us young ladies.
Nothing to do...
K-Kikuchiyo-sama!
You don't need to call me "sama".
What's with the katana?
I found it.
What are you doing?
I wanna get so I'm able to use a katana.
At first, it strained my lower back, but it's okay now.
I'm gonna get so I can cut what I'm aimin' for.
Where did you buy that mechanical body of yours?
You want to become a mechanical samurai?
Mm-hmm.
What would you do if you did?
I'd kill the bandits!
If I'm gonna fight bandits, then becomin' a machine is the best thing to do!
So please, tell me where you got your body!
Don't do it.
Why not?
Once you get your wife back, it would be a shame not to hold her with your own flesh.
Hold up your sword.
I'll teach you how to use a katana.
Kikuchiyo has completely forgotten about his task as a watchman.
Shichi-san...
For now, let's leave them alone for a little while.
But...
I will take his place as watchman.
I missed again.
I've gotten the hang of it! We're gonna trounce those bandits!
Yup! Although, you ain't improved one bit.
It's my bow! There's somethin' wrong with my bow!
You're just a klutz.
What was that, you good-for-nothin'!? Let's do it again!
Samurai-sama?
They're coming!
It's quiet...
Too quiet...
It's almost as though...
What is it?
Today's program has just gotten started.
Looks like they're roughly two and a half ri away.
note: a "ri" is equal to 3.9273 kilometers
They're here, are they?
Okay, it's almost time! Deploy for battle!
Women and children, go to the Mikumari's house at once!
Everyone else, do as we've planned!
Pull! Pull! Pull!!
They're here! They're here! They're here! They're finally here! It's the bandits!
How come there are so many of them?
There's more'n I thought there'd be.
Hey!
What're we up against!?
We sure have gone an' gotten the bandits angry at us!
Manzo! It's no use sayin' that at this point!
Yeah, but even if we do got seven samurai-sama, there's no way we can win against that many bandits!
If we're gonna apologize, now's the time!
Even if we do apologize after comin' this far, they ain't gonna forgive us!
At this point, it's all or nothin'!
There's more than we planned for, but there's no backing out now.
That's some awesome stuff comin'.
Halt!
Secure the footings!
Nice work!
We managed somehow to finish it on time.
Still, there are an awful lot of them, huh?
Feeling apprehensive?
Don't be ridiculous! This is more like it!
By the way, where is Kikuchiyo?
I'm right here!
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Draw the bow.
Rikichi!
You fire it.
M-Me?
Mm-hmm. You're going to strike back at them.
It's okay.
You just have to knock the catch out.
Everyone take your stations!
Man your stations!
Move it! Move it! Move it!
Kikuchiyo-sama coming through!
Draw the bow!
M-My house! My house!
Take it easy! Take it easy, Manzo!
There's nothin' you can do about it now!
Cease drawing!
Firing preparations complete!
Come and get it!
This is no threat! Throw down your weapons and come across the bridge one at a time!
Fire!
All right! Go get 'em!
We got them! Take that! Serves you right!
Wow! They did it!
Awesome!
You two!
Come get inside the house, now!
But, look!
The war...
The war has started.
Look at that!
T-They're comin'!
Don't panic!
Man your stations, and ready your bows!
They're here! They're here! They're here! They're here! Yahoo!
Kanna Bridge
Fire!
Don't let up your attack! Fire!
We did it! Take that!
They may be bandits...
But after taking arrows and falling down into there, they won't be giving us any more trouble.
The samurai sure are fearsome.
They didn't even blanch at doin' all that killin'.
We did it! Hey!
Bring some rope!
Grandfather! Grandfather!
Are the bandits dead?
Yeah, dead! They're dead!
Dead by the arrows we shot at them!
Did they writhe in pain?
Yeah, they writhed, all right!
Good...
Even so, I don't think the bandits're gonna stop at just this!
What'll we do when that happens?
Things went well this time, but now that we got the bandits mad, wat's gonna happen to us?
Mosuke...
You're sure we ain't doin' something terrible here, ain'tcha?
Mosuke!
You don't wanna die, right?
Uh-huh! Uh-huh!
Then, fight!
What kind of setup is this!?
If we go straight at them, we'll run into that again!
The peasants have also been training with the bow.
This is a hell of a declaration of war.
Even I was scared half to death.
The samurai, huh?
Crush them!
Behind us...
Sister?
The flow of the mists is being disturbed.
They're coming again.
It's okay, it's okay.
Nunky is here, so it'll be okay.
C-Chief, what is this?
W-We're very sorry to have troubled you!
Peasants, what are you trying to pull?
W-We've finally opened our eyes.
We realize that we done somethin' we shouldn'a done when we killed those bandits.
What are you trying to say?
We're farmers.
We're lowly farmers, so we hired the samurai to try to defeat you bandits.
But now we've gotten scared.
Us farmers are best at bein' farmers. For us to be fightin' a war is outrageous.
We know that you bandits're angry, and that's why you've come here.
You even said that if we fell in league with the samurai, that you'd kill all of us.
But we've had a change of heart. We'll give you bandits anythin' you want.
As a token of our apology, you can have all this rice here.
So please, spare us!
We beg you!
Of course we're going to take your rice. But there's one other thing that we want.
Where are the samurai!?
As you can see, we're holdin' them.
The old man merely gazed off into the distance
kakurega ni sunda okina ga tada
from the hideaway in which he lived.
tooku wo mitsumete ita
The baby cries, seeking only
akanbou wa naku hahaoya kara
for the warmth of his mother.
atatakasa dake motomete
We are born paying the price
dareka no batsu to dareka no tsumi wo
for someone's punishment, for someone's sins,
tsugunainagara umareru
but there is no such thing as a future without salvation,
sukuiyou no nai mirai nante nai
and the present slips quietly into the past.
"ima" wa shizuka ni kako ni
We string together nothing but hollow ideas,
kireigoto dake wo narabete
and tell nothing but hollow lies.
kireigoto dake de usotsuite
And as the rain falls down upon us,
kakari furu ame no naka
something appears and then fades away.
nanika ga ukabi kieteku
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