1 00:01:08,610 --> 00:01:15,450 KWAIDAN 2 00:01:20,372 --> 00:01:24,834 A NINJIN CLUB PRODUCTION 3 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:27,503 Produced by SHIGERU WAKATSUKI 4 00:01:31,717 --> 00:01:34,260 Original Stories by YAKUMO KOIZUMI Screenplay by YOKO MIZUKI 5 00:01:34,386 --> 00:01:36,929 Cinematography by YOSHIO MIYAJIMA 6 00:01:37,055 --> 00:01:39,599 Music and Sound Effects by TORU TAKEMITSU 7 00:01:43,854 --> 00:01:46,397 Production Design by SHIGEMASA TODA 8 00:01:46,523 --> 00:01:48,858 Sound Recordist HIDEO NISHIZAKI Edited by HISASHI SAGARA 9 00:01:48,984 --> 00:01:51,736 Lighting by AKIRA AOMATSU 10 00:02:11,048 --> 00:02:12,757 Starring 11 00:02:26,313 --> 00:02:29,148 THE BLACK HAIR 12 00:02:29,441 --> 00:02:32,777 MICHIYO ARATAMA MISAKO WATANABE, RENTARO MIKUNI 13 00:02:32,903 --> 00:02:35,613 KENJIRO ISHIYAMA RANKO AKAGI 14 00:02:41,703 --> 00:02:44,539 THE WOMAN OF THE SNOW 15 00:02:44,957 --> 00:02:48,125 TATSUYA NAKADAI KEIKO KISHI 16 00:02:48,252 --> 00:02:51,045 YUKO MOCHIZUKI 17 00:02:59,304 --> 00:03:02,014 HOICHI THE EARLESS 18 00:03:02,224 --> 00:03:05,518 KATSUO NAKAMURA TETSURO TANBA 19 00:03:05,644 --> 00:03:08,479 TAKASHI SHIMURA YOICHI HAYASHI, EIKO MURAMATSU 20 00:03:08,605 --> 00:03:11,440 KUNIE TANAKA, MASANORI TOMOTAKE TOKUE HANAZAWA 21 00:03:34,548 --> 00:03:37,842 IN A CUP OF TEA 22 00:03:38,135 --> 00:03:41,220 KANEMON NAKAMURA, OSAMU TAKIZAWA, HARUKO SUGIMURA 23 00:03:41,346 --> 00:03:44,181 GANJIRO NAKAMURA NOBORU NAKAYA, SEIJI MIYAGUCHI 24 00:03:44,308 --> 00:03:47,184 KEI SATO TOMOKO NARAOKA 25 00:03:53,358 --> 00:03:57,945 Directed by MASAKI KOBAYASHI 26 00:04:28,143 --> 00:04:32,438 THE BLACK HAIR 27 00:05:23,156 --> 00:05:28,619 In old Kyoto there was a young samurai... 28 00:05:30,330 --> 00:05:34,583 who had been reduced to poverty by the ruin of his lord. 29 00:05:34,835 --> 00:05:37,545 He decided to leave his home 30 00:05:37,671 --> 00:05:41,632 and enter the service of the governor of a distant province. 31 00:05:53,603 --> 00:05:55,438 Be well. 32 00:06:03,363 --> 00:06:06,032 I cannot stay. I have a future. 33 00:06:08,702 --> 00:06:11,537 A man must rise in the world. 34 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,791 I can't throw that away for you... 35 00:06:16,501 --> 00:06:19,045 and rot away in this place. 36 00:06:50,077 --> 00:06:52,078 Must you leave Kyoto? 37 00:06:55,165 --> 00:06:57,625 I'll work even harder than before. 38 00:06:58,001 --> 00:07:02,088 I'll weave day and night. I'll slave for a better life. 39 00:07:02,589 --> 00:07:04,381 Please reconsider. 40 00:07:07,803 --> 00:07:10,763 If I lose this chance, I'll be finished. 41 00:07:13,058 --> 00:07:16,102 I finally got a post. Don't try to stop me! 42 00:07:16,269 --> 00:07:20,648 And you'd be happier married to a man from a good family. 43 00:07:20,982 --> 00:07:22,983 I've had enough 44 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,112 of this unending poverty! 45 00:08:32,387 --> 00:08:35,431 You'll be leaving early in the morning, 46 00:08:36,057 --> 00:08:38,517 so we shall conclude for the evening. 47 00:08:38,852 --> 00:08:41,437 Prepare for the bridal chamber. 48 00:09:15,430 --> 00:09:18,682 Our daughter is finally married. 49 00:09:18,892 --> 00:09:21,477 A burden has truly been lifted. 50 00:09:22,103 --> 00:09:25,773 We are pleased to welcome you into our family. 51 00:09:26,858 --> 00:09:28,817 Unworthy though I am. 52 00:09:28,944 --> 00:09:32,571 He understands just how indebted he is to you. 53 00:09:33,114 --> 00:09:37,993 Please take care of our daughter always. 54 00:09:38,119 --> 00:09:39,870 I will. 55 00:11:23,391 --> 00:11:28,979 The samurai did not understand the value of love. 56 00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:31,940 He abandoned his devoted wife, 57 00:11:32,150 --> 00:11:35,694 married a noblewoman to advance his career, 58 00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:38,322 and took her to his new post. 59 00:11:39,908 --> 00:11:45,162 It was the rashness of a young man suffocating from poverty. 60 00:15:14,163 --> 00:15:17,416 His second marriage did not prove a happy one. 61 00:15:18,543 --> 00:15:23,964 His new wife was selfish and cold. 62 00:15:25,008 --> 00:15:30,596 He thought back on his life in Kyoto with unbearable longing. 63 00:15:32,390 --> 00:15:36,685 He realized he still loved his first wife 64 00:15:36,936 --> 00:15:40,814 more than he could ever love his second. 65 00:15:41,983 --> 00:15:44,818 He realized further 66 00:15:44,944 --> 00:15:48,905 just how irresponsible and ungrateful he had been. 67 00:16:17,018 --> 00:16:21,146 Memories of the woman he had wronged... 68 00:16:22,649 --> 00:16:26,234 her soft speech... 69 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:28,987 her smile... 70 00:16:29,572 --> 00:16:31,573 her gentle demeanor... 71 00:16:33,034 --> 00:16:35,744 her impeccable patience ‒ 72 00:16:36,829 --> 00:16:39,665 all this haunted him constantly. 73 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:22,661 Enough! 74 00:19:25,998 --> 00:19:28,166 Always the same games. 75 00:19:29,335 --> 00:19:31,670 I'm bored to death. 76 00:19:32,672 --> 00:19:35,674 You may all take your leave. 77 00:19:48,354 --> 00:19:51,064 Please don't wait up any longer. 78 00:19:53,484 --> 00:19:57,696 It seems the master is still reading. 79 00:21:09,894 --> 00:21:11,895 Ungrateful wretch! 80 00:21:15,232 --> 00:21:20,445 You're only here due to my family's standing. 81 00:21:21,072 --> 00:21:23,239 You used us. 82 00:21:23,532 --> 00:21:27,285 But all you do is long for what you remember of the past. 83 00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:29,704 You don't even notice me! 84 00:22:01,445 --> 00:22:04,280 The evening dew will harm your health. 85 00:22:05,866 --> 00:22:08,952 Please go to your chambers 86 00:22:09,495 --> 00:22:12,872 and tend to her ladyship through the night. 87 00:22:13,457 --> 00:22:15,291 You mean watch her sleep? 88 00:22:15,710 --> 00:22:17,043 That's your duty. 89 00:22:19,797 --> 00:22:22,632 You mustn't say that. 90 00:22:23,009 --> 00:22:26,553 Let her return to her parents tomorrow if she wishes. 91 00:22:30,725 --> 00:22:34,185 I can't bear watching her sulk any longer. 92 00:22:37,189 --> 00:22:40,233 Please tell her that. 93 00:22:45,531 --> 00:22:48,825 It turns out I was just young and stupid. 94 00:22:50,703 --> 00:22:53,455 I'll find the wife I deserted... 95 00:22:56,792 --> 00:23:01,046 and make amends for my sins. 96 00:23:07,595 --> 00:23:10,180 Yet the years went by. 97 00:23:11,432 --> 00:23:13,892 His period of service came to an end. 98 00:23:14,018 --> 00:23:17,145 It was September 10 when he reached the street in Kyoto 99 00:23:17,271 --> 00:23:19,397 where his first wife had lived. 100 00:23:20,149 --> 00:23:24,611 It was the dead of night, and the city was as silent as a graveyard. 101 00:26:22,164 --> 00:26:24,958 When did you return to Kyoto? 102 00:26:27,419 --> 00:26:29,003 Just now. 103 00:26:31,131 --> 00:26:32,799 Just this moment. 104 00:26:36,262 --> 00:26:38,846 It's so dark... 105 00:26:39,265 --> 00:26:42,058 yet still you found your way. 106 00:26:42,226 --> 00:26:45,853 You must be tired. - No, don't get up. 107 00:26:46,563 --> 00:26:49,565 Don't trouble yourself. - I'll boil some water ‒ 108 00:26:49,692 --> 00:26:51,359 I don't need any. 109 00:26:56,323 --> 00:26:58,449 You haven't aged a day. 110 00:27:00,828 --> 00:27:02,745 You look exactly the same. 111 00:27:07,167 --> 00:27:10,795 I couldn't forget your face for a moment. 112 00:27:12,548 --> 00:27:15,133 I longed to hear your voice. 113 00:27:19,972 --> 00:27:21,556 Forgive me. 114 00:27:23,392 --> 00:27:25,685 I'm a cruel man. 115 00:27:26,770 --> 00:27:28,563 I'm a fool. 116 00:27:29,815 --> 00:27:31,941 I deserve your scorn. 117 00:27:38,741 --> 00:27:43,494 To the day my service ended, 118 00:27:43,829 --> 00:27:47,123 I thought so often about coming back to you. 119 00:27:48,167 --> 00:27:51,169 How deeply I regretted my selfishness. 120 00:27:53,630 --> 00:27:56,966 How wretched I was without you... 121 00:27:58,052 --> 00:28:02,597 how tormented by the irreparable harm I'd done. 122 00:28:04,183 --> 00:28:08,311 All I could think about was how to make amends. 123 00:28:09,271 --> 00:28:11,856 Above all, I wanted to rush back 124 00:28:12,024 --> 00:28:14,776 to Kyoto and find you. 125 00:28:15,611 --> 00:28:18,571 I ran frantically in the dark. 126 00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:22,116 To worry yourself like that... 127 00:28:23,369 --> 00:28:26,120 over someone like me... 128 00:28:26,622 --> 00:28:28,373 Forgive me. 129 00:28:29,666 --> 00:28:31,459 Please forgive me. 130 00:28:32,044 --> 00:28:34,879 I was such a fool. 131 00:28:35,172 --> 00:28:38,049 You mustn't punish yourself. 132 00:28:41,178 --> 00:28:46,224 Please don't torment yourself on my account. 133 00:28:47,851 --> 00:28:53,815 In truth, I never felt worthy of being your wife. 134 00:28:54,316 --> 00:28:55,608 But you are! 135 00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:58,194 Even though I knew I wasn't, 136 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,280 I clung to you, always a burden. 137 00:29:03,283 --> 00:29:06,452 Yet my leaving you was so cruel. 138 00:29:07,162 --> 00:29:11,082 It was because of the poverty. 139 00:29:14,128 --> 00:29:19,465 You were always kind to me. 140 00:29:19,967 --> 00:29:22,427 Why should I think ill of you? 141 00:29:27,099 --> 00:29:30,143 I silently prayed for your good fortune... 142 00:29:31,687 --> 00:29:34,939 every day and night. 143 00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:55,251 I'll make amends. 144 00:29:55,961 --> 00:29:57,670 That's all right. 145 00:29:58,297 --> 00:30:00,798 You traveled a long way home. 146 00:30:01,633 --> 00:30:04,927 That has already brought me happiness. 147 00:30:08,557 --> 00:30:14,228 Even if we can be together like this only for a moment. 148 00:30:16,356 --> 00:30:17,857 Only for a moment? 149 00:30:21,361 --> 00:30:24,989 Tell me we'll be together for seven lifetimes. 150 00:30:26,909 --> 00:30:29,869 Unless you forbid it, 151 00:30:30,162 --> 00:30:33,789 I'll stay with you always. 152 00:30:36,668 --> 00:30:39,504 Nothing will ever separate us again. 153 00:30:45,677 --> 00:30:48,513 Your fragrant hair. 154 00:30:50,432 --> 00:30:53,226 It's the same as before. 155 00:31:05,364 --> 00:31:08,699 The same glossy black hair... 156 00:31:11,995 --> 00:31:13,746 those eyes... 157 00:31:15,999 --> 00:31:18,000 that lovely nose... 158 00:31:22,172 --> 00:31:24,340 those soft cheeks... 159 00:31:27,094 --> 00:31:28,678 and ‒ 160 00:32:09,469 --> 00:32:14,473 I've forgotten my sorrow. 161 00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:24,317 Many things have happened in Kyoto since you went away. 162 00:32:25,986 --> 00:32:27,737 I imagine so. 163 00:32:28,447 --> 00:32:31,449 Too much to tell in a single night. 164 00:32:36,705 --> 00:32:42,126 Soon it will be dawn. 165 00:32:52,262 --> 00:32:54,972 I missed this room as well. 166 00:32:55,641 --> 00:32:58,434 We made love for the first time here. 167 00:33:06,818 --> 00:33:09,612 It holds the memories of so many nights. 168 00:33:10,364 --> 00:33:12,365 I don't want to sleep now. 169 00:33:19,164 --> 00:33:24,960 I want to speak with you of the past, the present, and the future... 170 00:33:25,671 --> 00:33:28,839 and savor this happiness I feel now. 171 00:33:32,219 --> 00:33:35,012 I feel as if this were a dream. 172 00:33:43,647 --> 00:33:46,649 I want to treasure the happiness of your return. 173 00:33:47,693 --> 00:33:50,736 I don't want to sleep for even a second. 174 00:40:21,628 --> 00:40:27,633 THE WOMAN OF THE SNOW 175 00:40:35,892 --> 00:40:38,727 In a village in Musashi province 176 00:40:39,187 --> 00:40:43,732 there lived two woodcutters: Mosaku and Minokichi. 177 00:40:44,651 --> 00:40:47,111 Mosaku was an old man... 178 00:40:47,904 --> 00:40:52,866 and his apprentice Minokichi was a boy of 18. 179 00:40:55,620 --> 00:41:00,958 Every day they went to a forest a few miles away from the village. 180 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:06,672 One very cold day, a blizzard overtook them on their way home. 181 00:45:43,074 --> 00:45:47,911 The boatman had left his boat on the other side of the river. 182 00:45:49,163 --> 00:45:51,748 It was no day for swimming. 183 00:49:58,454 --> 00:50:03,541 I intended to do to you... 184 00:50:04,001 --> 00:50:07,504 what I did to that other man. 185 00:50:09,006 --> 00:50:14,177 But I couldn't help pitying you... 186 00:50:15,346 --> 00:50:17,472 because you're so young. 187 00:50:23,562 --> 00:50:26,439 You're a handsome boy. 188 00:50:29,568 --> 00:50:34,823 I won't harm you. 189 00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:37,951 But... 190 00:50:38,202 --> 00:50:42,956 if you ever tell anybody about what you've seen tonight, 191 00:50:43,749 --> 00:50:46,501 even your own mother, 192 00:50:46,627 --> 00:50:48,795 I will know of it... 193 00:50:51,090 --> 00:50:55,009 and I will kill you. 194 00:51:01,475 --> 00:51:06,563 Remember what I just told you. 195 00:51:08,190 --> 00:51:10,024 Understand? 196 00:53:46,390 --> 00:53:48,892 I'll be going now. 197 00:53:51,437 --> 00:53:56,691 I have to sell some wood. We need money. 198 00:53:59,904 --> 00:54:03,197 You won't be able to work for some time. 199 00:54:04,867 --> 00:54:07,452 Until it gets warmer... 200 00:54:09,747 --> 00:54:13,833 and you've recovered all your strength. 201 00:54:15,169 --> 00:54:19,088 Your porridge is getting cold. 202 00:54:25,012 --> 00:54:28,598 Take care of yourself, son. 203 00:54:30,100 --> 00:54:32,894 Otherwise, like old Mosaku... 204 00:54:33,979 --> 00:54:37,440 you'll freeze to death... 205 00:54:39,443 --> 00:54:42,487 as if the blood had been sucked out of you. 206 00:54:45,783 --> 00:54:48,284 If this should happen to you again, 207 00:54:49,161 --> 00:54:51,955 you won't survive. 208 00:54:53,916 --> 00:54:55,458 Are you listening? 209 00:55:02,716 --> 00:55:07,303 You never say a word no matter what I say. 210 00:55:36,667 --> 00:55:38,918 A year passed. 211 00:55:39,294 --> 00:55:43,756 As soon as Minokichi got well, he resumed working. 212 00:55:44,883 --> 00:55:48,261 Every morning he went to the forest alone 213 00:55:48,387 --> 00:55:51,431 and returned with bundles of wood. 214 00:57:16,308 --> 00:57:19,560 Where are you going so late in the day? 215 00:57:19,937 --> 00:57:21,479 Edo. 216 00:57:23,273 --> 00:57:24,649 Now? 217 00:57:25,567 --> 00:57:27,068 Yes. 218 00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,248 I lost my parents. 219 00:57:40,833 --> 00:57:44,418 I'm hoping that my relatives in Edo 220 00:57:44,670 --> 00:57:47,630 might help me find work there. 221 00:57:48,966 --> 00:57:50,967 You have any siblings? 222 00:57:51,802 --> 00:57:53,427 None? 223 00:58:00,519 --> 00:58:05,690 I hope your relatives can find you a good position, but... 224 00:58:06,483 --> 00:58:09,235 Without a sponsor... 225 00:58:09,361 --> 00:58:12,989 is it hard to find decent work even as a servant? 226 00:58:15,159 --> 00:58:17,034 Better to get married. 227 00:58:20,998 --> 00:58:22,456 Are you married? 228 00:58:47,524 --> 00:58:49,108 Take my hand. 229 00:59:50,629 --> 00:59:53,589 That's my house. 230 00:59:56,093 --> 00:59:59,929 Why not rest here? You won't be bothering anyone. 231 01:00:00,055 --> 01:00:03,432 - But ‒ - It's just me and my mother. 232 01:00:06,270 --> 01:00:07,853 Come. 233 01:00:41,138 --> 01:00:43,973 Your name is Yuki? 234 01:00:44,808 --> 01:00:47,935 I see. 235 01:00:53,859 --> 01:00:56,902 So you're going to Edo. 236 01:00:57,529 --> 01:01:00,823 But with no definite plans, 237 01:01:01,408 --> 01:01:05,494 and traveling alone, I'm a bit worried about you. 238 01:01:07,998 --> 01:01:14,337 People are not always kind. 239 01:01:17,090 --> 01:01:19,925 Especially to young girls. 240 01:01:21,178 --> 01:01:24,347 You must be careful... 241 01:01:25,474 --> 01:01:28,476 not to be deceived by bad men. 242 01:01:42,949 --> 01:01:47,078 Come eat while it's hot. 243 01:03:35,145 --> 01:03:40,316 Yuki bore him three beautiful, fair-skinned children 244 01:03:40,484 --> 01:03:43,235 and the villagers thought her a good wife. 245 01:03:43,361 --> 01:03:47,990 Heavy snow, heavy rain 246 01:03:48,492 --> 01:03:54,163 The temple's tea bushes are covered in snow 247 01:03:54,664 --> 01:03:57,625 The novice has to clear it away 248 01:03:57,751 --> 01:04:00,002 "But the priest has to help 249 01:04:00,128 --> 01:04:03,005 Or I won't do it!" 250 01:04:07,594 --> 01:04:10,179 Now make your offerings to Grandma. 251 01:04:10,347 --> 01:04:13,098 Show her how much you've all grown. 252 01:04:17,896 --> 01:04:20,105 Offer that to Grandmother. 253 01:04:39,876 --> 01:04:43,379 She never seems to get any older! 254 01:04:43,505 --> 01:04:45,005 It's true. 255 01:04:45,382 --> 01:04:50,094 She's as young as the first day she came to the village. 256 01:04:50,428 --> 01:04:52,429 She's a mystery. 257 01:04:58,395 --> 01:05:00,062 Were you at the cemetery? 258 01:05:00,230 --> 01:05:05,025 Yes, it's the anniversary of my mother-in-law's death. 259 01:05:05,151 --> 01:05:06,902 I see. 260 01:05:07,028 --> 01:05:11,657 She must be pleased to see all her nice grandchildren 261 01:05:11,783 --> 01:05:13,826 praying for her. 262 01:05:13,952 --> 01:05:15,661 She's at peace. 263 01:05:15,787 --> 01:05:19,957 She praised you until the day she died. 264 01:05:20,375 --> 01:05:23,752 You rarely hear of that happening. 265 01:05:24,254 --> 01:05:25,421 You're right. 266 01:05:25,547 --> 01:05:30,217 You never hear of it, no matter how good the wife is. 267 01:05:30,343 --> 01:05:31,927 I wouldn't say that. 268 01:05:32,095 --> 01:05:37,391 Thanks to all of you, I live very happily. 269 01:05:37,601 --> 01:05:40,978 It's nice when a couple is happy together. 270 01:05:41,229 --> 01:05:43,105 Of course they're happy! 271 01:05:43,231 --> 01:05:47,985 He has such a good and beautiful woman for a wife. 272 01:05:48,111 --> 01:05:50,404 It all makes sense! 273 01:05:56,661 --> 01:06:00,039 Look at her, so young and fresh! 274 01:06:00,749 --> 01:06:03,542 After three kids, no less. 275 01:06:03,918 --> 01:06:07,546 A peasant woman would look so old. 276 01:06:07,672 --> 01:06:09,923 She looks like a young doll. 277 01:06:11,718 --> 01:06:13,469 She's a mystery indeed... 278 01:07:52,902 --> 01:07:56,029 What do you think? Try these on. 279 01:07:58,408 --> 01:08:00,451 I hope they're not too small. 280 01:08:02,203 --> 01:08:05,414 - What about the children's? - Already finished. 281 01:08:19,971 --> 01:08:23,432 How nice! All ready for New Year's. 282 01:08:24,976 --> 01:08:27,603 I'll loosen the thongs if they're too tight. 283 01:08:27,771 --> 01:08:30,397 Come on, try them on. 284 01:08:34,277 --> 01:08:36,487 How beautiful! 285 01:08:36,696 --> 01:08:38,989 But why red thongs? 286 01:08:39,199 --> 01:08:40,866 You're still young. 287 01:08:40,992 --> 01:08:43,035 I'm a mother of three. 288 01:08:43,161 --> 01:08:45,829 Red is still your color. 289 01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:48,582 Your feet look beautiful. 290 01:09:12,649 --> 01:09:14,817 A perfect fit. 291 01:09:14,984 --> 01:09:18,654 Not too tight, not too loose. 292 01:09:19,030 --> 01:09:21,657 They're my exact size. 293 01:09:22,367 --> 01:09:26,954 Your sandals are so beautiful 294 01:09:27,247 --> 01:09:30,833 that people wear them out and come asking for more, 295 01:09:31,167 --> 01:09:33,877 but these are especially comfortable. 296 01:09:34,003 --> 01:09:38,215 I made them extra special to match your best clothes. 297 01:09:40,134 --> 01:09:43,512 I feel as if I'm setting out on a journey. 298 01:09:45,849 --> 01:09:48,517 I can't make you new holiday clothes, 299 01:09:49,018 --> 01:09:51,520 but at least I can make you new sandals. 300 01:09:55,024 --> 01:09:59,778 With your sandals and the clothes I'm altering, 301 01:09:59,904 --> 01:10:02,990 our children will have a splendid New Year's. 302 01:10:04,576 --> 01:10:06,827 Are you almost done? 303 01:10:07,871 --> 01:10:10,956 A few more stitches. 304 01:11:21,778 --> 01:11:24,780 What are you staring at? 305 01:11:34,791 --> 01:11:38,543 I just remembered something that happened ten years ago. 306 01:11:40,588 --> 01:11:43,799 It's strange, since I hadn't thought about it in so long. 307 01:11:44,008 --> 01:11:46,385 With the light on your face like that, 308 01:11:46,511 --> 01:11:49,638 and looking up at you like this... 309 01:11:50,264 --> 01:11:52,975 I suddenly remembered that night. 310 01:11:57,689 --> 01:11:59,940 That night? 311 01:12:00,358 --> 01:12:03,694 That's right. A strange thing happened. 312 01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:07,114 It's like it was yesterday. 313 01:12:10,410 --> 01:12:14,913 You see, I've never told anybody about it. 314 01:12:15,915 --> 01:12:20,168 I'm still not sure if it was real or a dream. 315 01:12:22,588 --> 01:12:27,175 It was the night old Mosaku froze to death 316 01:12:27,719 --> 01:12:30,846 as if all the blood had been sucked out of him. 317 01:12:31,889 --> 01:12:34,016 With my own eyes... 318 01:12:34,225 --> 01:12:39,813 I saw a woman bending over him. 319 01:12:41,357 --> 01:12:47,320 She blew her breath on him like a white smoke, 320 01:12:47,697 --> 01:12:52,701 and he went stiff and couldn't move. 321 01:12:54,996 --> 01:12:58,999 Then she stooped over me as well, 322 01:12:59,125 --> 01:13:01,543 and I began to go numb. 323 01:13:04,630 --> 01:13:06,298 Her eyes... 324 01:13:07,759 --> 01:13:10,761 That terrifying woman's eyes... 325 01:13:12,221 --> 01:13:16,725 made her look so incredibly beautiful... 326 01:13:17,894 --> 01:13:20,395 like something not of this world. 327 01:13:22,648 --> 01:13:25,567 She was fair-skinned, like you. 328 01:13:28,404 --> 01:13:30,739 Just like that! 329 01:13:31,032 --> 01:13:34,284 You looked exactly like her just now. 330 01:13:38,247 --> 01:13:40,582 That's what made me remember. 331 01:13:41,584 --> 01:13:47,130 The memory haunted me day and night back then. 332 01:13:47,799 --> 01:13:50,634 It really took its toll on my health. 333 01:13:58,309 --> 01:14:03,063 But I tell you, it was in the ferryman's hut 334 01:14:03,189 --> 01:14:05,649 where I spent the night of the blizzard. 335 01:14:05,775 --> 01:14:10,862 With my own eyes, I saw the strange woman who killed Mosaku. 336 01:14:12,907 --> 01:14:15,492 And except for you... 337 01:14:16,285 --> 01:14:20,539 I've never seen a woman as pale and as beautiful. 338 01:14:22,583 --> 01:14:26,628 But she was terrifying. Not human. 339 01:14:27,463 --> 01:14:30,882 You think she was the Woman of the Snow 340 01:14:31,008 --> 01:14:33,468 who comes looking for blood? 341 01:14:34,846 --> 01:14:36,763 Or was it all a dream? 342 01:14:42,603 --> 01:14:44,312 It was no dream. 343 01:15:08,379 --> 01:15:09,921 Me. 344 01:15:12,842 --> 01:15:14,843 It was me. 345 01:15:17,013 --> 01:15:18,638 Me. 346 01:15:20,850 --> 01:15:21,892 Me! 347 01:15:31,777 --> 01:15:35,780 It was Yuki. 348 01:15:39,869 --> 01:15:42,204 You promised that night 349 01:15:42,705 --> 01:15:45,332 that you'd never tell a soul. 350 01:15:47,043 --> 01:15:49,920 After all this time, you've broken your promise. 351 01:15:51,505 --> 01:15:56,259 It was an eternal pledge to me in exchange for your life. 352 01:15:57,595 --> 01:16:02,057 I told you that if you broke it, I would kill you. 353 01:17:37,194 --> 01:17:39,571 You've betrayed me! 354 01:17:46,662 --> 01:17:49,956 If it weren't for those children asleep in there... 355 01:17:53,669 --> 01:17:56,338 I would kill you this very moment! 356 01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:21,404 From now on... 357 01:18:24,367 --> 01:18:30,663 you'd better take good care of those children. 358 01:19:20,172 --> 01:19:22,674 If they ever have 359 01:19:22,925 --> 01:19:26,636 even the slightest reason to complain of you... 360 01:19:29,181 --> 01:19:31,766 I will treat you as you deserve! 361 01:22:47,963 --> 01:22:53,968 INTERMISSION 362 01:23:38,222 --> 01:23:42,809 HOICHI THE EARLESS 363 01:24:06,542 --> 01:24:14,465 It was early in the morning 364 01:24:15,008 --> 01:24:18,094 Of March 24th 365 01:24:18,220 --> 01:24:22,890 In the second year of the Genryaku era 366 01:24:24,268 --> 01:24:28,479 That the Genji and Heike clans 367 01:24:28,605 --> 01:24:32,191 At Dan-no-ura 368 01:24:35,279 --> 01:24:42,452 Fought their last sea battle 369 01:25:01,722 --> 01:25:09,729 With the banners of the war god 370 01:25:14,276 --> 01:25:19,071 Tanzo Kumano from Kii province took the lead 371 01:25:19,239 --> 01:25:26,412 Followed by Michinobu Kono from lyo province 372 01:25:26,872 --> 01:25:32,502 Who led the warships of Shikoku 373 01:25:33,587 --> 01:25:42,261 The war drums beat loudly 374 01:25:43,096 --> 01:25:50,686 There were so many ships 375 01:25:51,063 --> 01:25:55,775 More than three thousand in all 376 01:25:57,236 --> 01:26:02,448 The Heike were surrounded and laid to siege 377 01:26:02,574 --> 01:26:13,835 Rushing before all the others 378 01:26:18,173 --> 01:26:28,558 Was the force under the command of Yoshitsune 379 01:26:31,270 --> 01:26:39,485 So it has been told 380 01:26:45,868 --> 01:26:49,287 At Dan-no-ura, on the Shimonoseki Straits, 381 01:26:50,038 --> 01:26:55,293 the last battle was fought between the Genji and the Heike clans. 382 01:26:57,379 --> 01:27:01,716 The Heike had been defeated in many battles 383 01:27:01,884 --> 01:27:04,635 and escaped to the west. 384 01:27:04,928 --> 01:27:10,433 Here the clan perished along with the infant emperor. 385 01:28:27,469 --> 01:28:33,140 Noritsune, governor of Noto province 386 01:28:33,433 --> 01:28:40,815 Knew this was his last day 387 01:28:43,902 --> 01:28:50,658 The Genji rank and file were no match for him 388 01:28:50,993 --> 01:28:57,957 He wanted to cross swords with Yoshitsune, the Genji commander 389 01:28:58,583 --> 01:29:06,090 "Come on, Yoshitsune!" he called 390 01:31:16,429 --> 01:31:24,645 The high waves kept them from reaching the shore 391 01:31:25,689 --> 01:31:29,441 And the Genji ships blocked 392 01:31:29,568 --> 01:31:32,778 The one possible escape route to the sea 393 01:31:32,988 --> 01:31:37,199 They waited with arrows in their bows 394 01:31:37,993 --> 01:31:43,664 The Heike crew were all dead 395 01:31:44,416 --> 01:31:49,795 And the Heike ships had nowhere to go 396 01:31:50,005 --> 01:31:53,674 Some sank 397 01:31:54,843 --> 01:32:00,931 Some went adrift 398 01:32:03,351 --> 01:32:10,691 The long contest 399 01:32:11,568 --> 01:32:18,073 Between the two samurai clans 400 01:32:18,200 --> 01:32:25,331 Was reaching its end 401 01:33:00,909 --> 01:33:04,828 Lady Nii watched 402 01:33:07,582 --> 01:33:17,633 All of this unfold 403 01:33:21,763 --> 01:33:29,937 She held the infant emperor in her arms 404 01:33:31,189 --> 01:33:36,235 "I may be a woman 405 01:33:36,945 --> 01:33:45,286 But I will not die at the enemy's hands 406 01:33:48,039 --> 01:33:52,293 I will escort His Majesty 407 01:33:52,419 --> 01:33:54,628 To the next world 408 01:33:54,796 --> 01:33:59,466 If you share my devotion 409 01:33:59,634 --> 01:34:04,096 Waste no time in following us" 410 01:35:24,302 --> 01:35:28,222 Thereafter, that sea and its shores... 411 01:35:29,849 --> 01:35:33,852 have been haunted for 700 years. 412 01:35:35,397 --> 01:35:41,443 Thousands of strange crabs, called "Heike crabs," 413 01:35:42,028 --> 01:35:45,864 with human faces on their shells, can be found there. 414 01:35:49,911 --> 01:35:52,746 After the Amidaji Temple was built at Akamagahara 415 01:35:52,914 --> 01:35:55,749 to console the souls of the dead samurai... 416 01:36:01,506 --> 01:36:04,508 many strange things began to take place. 417 01:36:26,614 --> 01:36:28,282 Hoichi. 418 01:36:31,995 --> 01:36:33,704 Hoichi. 419 01:36:44,966 --> 01:36:47,134 Ah, there you are. 420 01:36:47,302 --> 01:36:49,803 Be careful not to fall into the well. 421 01:36:49,971 --> 01:36:51,138 I will. 422 01:36:51,347 --> 01:36:54,391 The priest wants you to look after things. 423 01:36:54,517 --> 01:36:58,937 We were just asked to lead a wake at a patron's home. 424 01:36:59,063 --> 01:37:00,439 I'll do that. 425 01:37:00,565 --> 01:37:04,193 There's some watermelon inside. Eat it while it's cold. 426 01:37:04,319 --> 01:37:05,903 Thank you. 427 01:37:06,029 --> 01:37:07,905 Very good. 428 01:37:20,752 --> 01:37:23,670 I urged him to be very careful. 429 01:37:24,214 --> 01:37:26,840 He's still new here. 430 01:37:27,175 --> 01:37:29,676 I think he'll be all right. 431 01:39:31,799 --> 01:39:33,383 Who's there? 432 01:39:51,069 --> 01:39:54,196 Master, have you returned? 433 01:40:39,242 --> 01:40:44,204 No one would visit the temple at this hour. 434 01:40:46,374 --> 01:40:48,375 Maybe it was just my imagination. 435 01:41:16,946 --> 01:41:18,488 Hoichi. 436 01:41:40,094 --> 01:41:42,012 Who's calling me? 437 01:41:47,435 --> 01:41:52,439 I'm blind, and I've not been living here long. 438 01:41:53,649 --> 01:41:58,403 I thought somebody was out on the grounds. 439 01:41:58,946 --> 01:42:02,324 I've been impolite. Forgive me. 440 01:42:08,498 --> 01:42:10,248 There's nothing to fear. 441 01:42:12,376 --> 01:42:15,462 I'm staying near this temple, 442 01:42:16,047 --> 01:42:20,383 and I've been sent here with a message. 443 01:42:22,804 --> 01:42:26,056 My lord, a man of very high rank, 444 01:42:26,390 --> 01:42:31,228 is now staying here in Akamagahara with his numerous attendants. 445 01:42:31,479 --> 01:42:34,523 He wanted to see the old battle site at Dan-no-ura, 446 01:42:34,649 --> 01:42:36,316 so we went there today. 447 01:42:38,611 --> 01:42:40,111 I see. 448 01:42:40,863 --> 01:42:45,408 Since childhood you've shown uncanny skill 449 01:42:45,535 --> 01:42:47,828 at reciting the story of the battle. 450 01:42:47,995 --> 01:42:51,414 They say you even surpass your teacher. 451 01:42:51,666 --> 01:42:55,001 My lord desires to hear your performance. 452 01:42:55,294 --> 01:43:00,590 Take your biwa and come with me to our manor at once. 453 01:43:02,176 --> 01:43:05,136 That's very gracious of him. 454 01:43:07,682 --> 01:43:10,392 But I'm hardly worthy of his attention. 455 01:43:10,685 --> 01:43:15,814 You wouldn't disobey his command, would you? 456 01:43:20,653 --> 01:43:25,156 You said your lord is high in rank. He must be a great man. 457 01:43:25,366 --> 01:43:29,703 Yes. You normally wouldn't be admitted into his presence. 458 01:43:30,454 --> 01:43:32,622 I don't deserve such good fortune. 459 01:44:00,067 --> 01:44:01,943 Open the gate! 460 01:44:58,292 --> 01:45:00,460 You inside! 461 01:45:01,462 --> 01:45:03,088 I've brought Hoichi. 462 01:45:33,828 --> 01:45:35,829 Take off your sandals. 463 01:46:42,354 --> 01:46:44,272 Another victim. 464 01:46:44,565 --> 01:46:46,483 Got washed up here. 465 01:46:56,410 --> 01:46:58,661 Must have been the sea ghosts again. 466 01:46:58,788 --> 01:47:01,247 I saw will-o'-the-wisps last night. 467 01:47:16,013 --> 01:47:17,555 Yasaku! 468 01:47:18,349 --> 01:47:20,100 Good morning. 469 01:47:29,360 --> 01:47:30,860 Where's Hoichi? 470 01:47:30,986 --> 01:47:32,946 He's still not back. 471 01:47:33,155 --> 01:47:35,532 - Still? - That's right. 472 01:47:36,117 --> 01:47:41,079 Is it true that none of you noticed when he left last night? 473 01:47:41,413 --> 01:47:43,164 Well... 474 01:47:44,250 --> 01:47:46,793 I thought he'd gone to bed. 475 01:48:10,818 --> 01:48:14,320 - Another ship sank last night. - Whose? 476 01:48:14,488 --> 01:48:16,447 Gonemon's. He was out catching squid. 477 01:48:16,574 --> 01:48:19,159 His family's here to request a service. 478 01:48:19,910 --> 01:48:23,204 - Is that so? - I told the priest. 479 01:48:23,330 --> 01:48:27,584 I see. What a terrible pity. 480 01:48:28,252 --> 01:48:31,254 I wonder if there really are sea ghosts. 481 01:48:31,380 --> 01:48:33,214 It seems so. 482 01:48:33,340 --> 01:48:36,801 I've never seen them. You think they're real, Donkai? 483 01:48:36,927 --> 01:48:41,639 For those who believe, they are. For those who don't, they aren't. 484 01:48:42,474 --> 01:48:44,767 You and your slippery answers. 485 01:48:44,894 --> 01:48:46,853 I really believe it. 486 01:48:46,979 --> 01:48:50,523 Don't try to fool me. I try to be serious, but you ‒ 487 01:48:50,691 --> 01:48:52,358 I'm serious too. 488 01:48:52,526 --> 01:48:54,444 Is Hoichi back? 489 01:48:54,570 --> 01:48:56,988 Yes. Are you going out? 490 01:49:00,326 --> 01:49:01,826 How is he? 491 01:49:02,745 --> 01:49:05,663 It appears he's asleep. 492 01:49:05,789 --> 01:49:08,416 What? Since when? 493 01:49:08,751 --> 01:49:10,835 He returned without our knowing. 494 01:49:11,378 --> 01:49:13,546 Is that right? 495 01:49:18,135 --> 01:49:20,929 Staying out all night ‒ must have had fun. 496 01:49:21,055 --> 01:49:23,723 I told him to look after things. 497 01:49:23,891 --> 01:49:25,892 He isn't trustworthy. 498 01:49:26,018 --> 01:49:30,605 I must prepare Gonemon's posthumous name and be going. 499 01:49:31,440 --> 01:49:33,900 We'll have another wake tonight. 500 01:49:35,444 --> 01:49:38,404 It's going to be hot again today. 501 01:50:44,179 --> 01:50:48,850 You startled me, sitting in the dark like that. 502 01:50:49,101 --> 01:50:51,102 I wondered who you were. 503 01:50:51,687 --> 01:50:53,354 What's the matter? 504 01:50:53,731 --> 01:50:55,648 What's the matter? 505 01:50:55,983 --> 01:50:57,734 Everyone else is gone, 506 01:50:57,860 --> 01:51:00,528 and Matsuzo has gone home, so I'm all alone. 507 01:51:00,654 --> 01:51:03,031 I thought you were asleep, 508 01:51:03,157 --> 01:51:05,700 so I mistook you for a ghost. 509 01:51:05,826 --> 01:51:08,703 Now I'm soaking wet. 510 01:51:09,455 --> 01:51:11,497 I'm so sorry. 511 01:51:11,665 --> 01:51:15,710 That's all right. You haven't had your breakfast yet. 512 01:51:18,172 --> 01:51:21,674 Just where did you go last night? 513 01:51:24,094 --> 01:51:28,181 Your breakfast is still here. It hasn't gone bad. 514 01:51:28,349 --> 01:51:30,141 Hurry up and eat. 515 01:51:30,851 --> 01:51:34,062 There's eggplant from last night's supper too. 516 01:51:34,188 --> 01:51:35,980 Thank you. 517 01:51:47,326 --> 01:51:52,538 Donkai and the priest were very worried about you. 518 01:51:53,207 --> 01:51:56,417 Where did you go and why? 519 01:51:56,960 --> 01:51:58,669 Were they that worried? 520 01:51:58,796 --> 01:52:02,006 Don't act like you don't know. 521 01:52:02,841 --> 01:52:06,302 You're too young to stay out all night. 522 01:52:06,845 --> 01:52:10,431 You find a girl somewhere? 523 01:52:10,933 --> 01:52:13,017 Of course not. 524 01:52:13,644 --> 01:52:17,397 There was just something I'd forgotten to do. 525 01:52:17,564 --> 01:52:19,023 Really? 526 01:52:21,944 --> 01:52:26,697 You and your girl must grope each other like this. 527 01:52:27,574 --> 01:52:32,203 "This is your rump, and this must be..." 528 01:53:17,249 --> 01:53:18,958 Hoichi. 529 01:53:21,837 --> 01:53:25,465 It's the appointed time. I've come for you. 530 01:53:25,591 --> 01:53:27,216 Yes, sir. 531 01:53:29,761 --> 01:53:32,263 You didn't tell anybody? 532 01:53:32,973 --> 01:53:35,558 No, I didn't. 533 01:53:43,025 --> 01:53:45,109 You mustn't say a word. 534 01:53:45,736 --> 01:53:48,529 I understand. 535 01:55:33,010 --> 01:55:34,719 This is tasty. 536 01:55:37,598 --> 01:55:42,727 These rice cakes and raw sake are all I brought from home. 537 01:55:43,604 --> 01:55:47,064 I'll give Hoichi some before they lose their flavor. 538 01:55:47,524 --> 01:55:49,609 He'll be up soon. 539 01:55:49,943 --> 01:55:53,487 He'll be hungry when the sun sets. 540 01:55:54,323 --> 01:55:58,117 I see. What's he do during the day? 541 01:55:59,369 --> 01:56:01,954 He sleeps like the dead. 542 01:56:02,164 --> 01:56:04,707 And his face is so pale. 543 01:56:05,542 --> 01:56:08,169 It's just the sunlight reflected off the foliage. 544 01:56:08,295 --> 01:56:09,837 No. 545 01:56:10,339 --> 01:56:12,465 Has he said anything? 546 01:56:52,130 --> 01:56:53,631 Who's there? 547 01:57:00,972 --> 01:57:03,015 Oh, it's you, Yasaku. 548 01:57:05,686 --> 01:57:08,062 Oh, Matsuzo! 549 01:57:08,855 --> 01:57:11,190 When did you come back? 550 01:57:12,484 --> 01:57:17,321 You were asleep when I got back, so I didn't wake you. 551 01:57:17,531 --> 01:57:20,074 Are you feeling sick by chance? 552 01:57:20,701 --> 01:57:22,326 No. 553 01:57:22,703 --> 01:57:25,162 Just fatigued from the heat. 554 01:57:25,997 --> 01:57:27,498 I'll be fine. 555 01:57:47,060 --> 01:57:48,853 To tell you the truth... 556 01:57:49,521 --> 01:57:53,399 I've been meaning to ask you 557 01:57:54,151 --> 01:57:58,028 where you go every night. 558 01:57:58,739 --> 01:58:02,908 You leave without a word and stay out until morning. 559 01:58:03,034 --> 01:58:05,745 What's going on? 560 01:58:06,246 --> 01:58:10,916 Tell me: Why do you do it? 561 01:58:12,836 --> 01:58:16,422 In the middle of the night, without telling anyone, 562 01:58:16,923 --> 01:58:19,884 you just leave, night after night. 563 01:58:20,343 --> 01:58:25,222 Won't you at least tell me? 564 01:58:26,892 --> 01:58:30,436 Everyone's suspicious, 565 01:58:30,896 --> 01:58:36,692 but I've told them we can trust you. 566 01:58:37,736 --> 01:58:39,403 Nonetheless... 567 01:58:39,529 --> 01:58:44,241 it's dangerous for a blind man to be out wandering alone. 568 01:58:44,868 --> 01:58:49,455 I could have Yasaku or Matsuzo accompany you. 569 01:58:50,874 --> 01:58:55,252 Just where have you been going? 570 01:58:55,670 --> 01:58:58,380 Won't you tell me? 571 01:59:01,301 --> 01:59:03,135 Forgive me. 572 01:59:03,470 --> 01:59:06,055 I'm not doing anything suspicious. 573 01:59:06,973 --> 01:59:10,309 I remembered some things I needed to do, 574 01:59:10,811 --> 01:59:12,978 so I went out, heedless of the hour. 575 01:59:13,146 --> 01:59:15,648 I'll be more careful from now on. 576 01:59:15,982 --> 01:59:17,817 What things did you need to do? 577 01:59:18,819 --> 01:59:20,694 Trivial matters. 578 01:59:23,073 --> 01:59:27,451 I'm terribly sorry I worried you. 579 01:59:27,828 --> 01:59:29,453 I see. 580 02:00:07,200 --> 02:00:10,119 Master! Master! 581 02:00:12,789 --> 02:00:14,373 Master! 582 02:00:20,881 --> 02:00:22,756 Yasaku, what's happened? 583 02:00:22,883 --> 02:00:25,676 - It's Hoichi! - What's happened to him? 584 02:00:25,802 --> 02:00:27,720 He went out again just now! 585 02:00:27,888 --> 02:00:29,597 Went out? 586 02:00:30,223 --> 02:00:34,059 What are you waiting for? Hurry and follow him! 587 02:00:34,227 --> 02:00:37,479 Take Matsuzo with you, and don't let Hoichi see you. 588 02:00:37,606 --> 02:00:39,231 Hurry! 589 02:00:48,533 --> 02:00:50,242 Take this. Hurry! 590 02:00:50,410 --> 02:00:52,411 Where's Matsuzo? 591 02:00:52,746 --> 02:00:54,914 - Come on, hurry! - I can't light it. 592 02:00:55,040 --> 02:00:57,041 Now the seeing are disabled! 593 02:00:57,167 --> 02:01:00,085 - Hurry! - You go on ahead. 594 02:01:00,754 --> 02:01:02,671 But it's dark. 595 02:01:02,797 --> 02:01:05,549 Nighttime usually is! 596 02:01:08,261 --> 02:01:09,929 But the thunder ‒ 597 02:01:10,055 --> 02:01:12,973 Who cares? Get going! 598 02:01:13,600 --> 02:01:15,184 Matsuzo! 599 02:01:48,927 --> 02:01:51,553 Yasaku! Matsuzo! 600 02:01:57,978 --> 02:02:01,230 What are you doing? Get going! 601 02:02:11,157 --> 02:02:13,200 Which way? 602 02:02:13,994 --> 02:02:15,494 That way? 603 02:02:15,620 --> 02:02:17,830 He can't have gotten far. 604 02:02:17,998 --> 02:02:20,165 Go that way! 605 02:02:22,085 --> 02:02:23,877 Run! 606 02:03:25,106 --> 02:03:26,982 Yasaku! 607 02:03:34,783 --> 02:03:38,035 We have to stick together. Come on! 608 02:05:01,995 --> 02:05:05,664 His Majesty wants you to feel at home. 609 02:05:09,878 --> 02:05:13,130 You play the biwa beautifully... 610 02:05:14,674 --> 02:05:18,385 and every night you perform the tale of the Heike, 611 02:05:18,511 --> 02:05:21,013 composed of a hundred parts. 612 02:05:21,139 --> 02:05:23,849 His Majesty is delighted. 613 02:05:25,727 --> 02:05:28,896 I believe we are all pleased. 614 02:05:31,733 --> 02:05:34,109 You are most kind. 615 02:05:34,903 --> 02:05:37,571 As I explained... 616 02:05:37,739 --> 02:05:40,908 besides the main story, there are 19 secret pieces 617 02:05:41,242 --> 02:05:43,702 and five esoteric pieces. 618 02:05:43,828 --> 02:05:46,246 It would be hard to perform them all. 619 02:05:49,083 --> 02:05:53,503 Tonight I will recite whichever section you wish. 620 02:06:00,470 --> 02:06:02,554 Whichever is appropriate. 621 02:06:03,056 --> 02:06:05,766 "The Battle of Dan-no-ura." 622 02:06:06,142 --> 02:06:10,187 That is the most moving part of the story. 623 02:06:11,481 --> 02:06:15,651 Indeed! The final battle! 624 02:06:16,236 --> 02:06:19,238 Yes, the battle of Dan-no-ura. 625 02:06:26,621 --> 02:06:28,705 In that case, Hoichi... 626 02:06:28,957 --> 02:06:32,376 we wish to hear "The Battle of Dan-no-ura." 627 02:07:36,858 --> 02:07:45,240 It was early in the morning 628 02:07:46,200 --> 02:07:50,537 Of March 24th 629 02:07:50,705 --> 02:07:54,750 In the second year of the Genryaku era 630 02:07:56,419 --> 02:08:00,213 That the Genji and Heike clans 631 02:08:00,381 --> 02:08:05,761 At Dan-no-ura 632 02:08:08,222 --> 02:08:16,229 Fought their last sea battle 633 02:08:41,255 --> 02:08:45,008 Hey, let's go back, Matsuzo! 634 02:08:45,510 --> 02:08:47,594 This is awful. 635 02:08:48,179 --> 02:08:50,889 That kid's really making us suffer. 636 02:08:51,474 --> 02:08:53,600 It's just cruel! 637 02:09:12,745 --> 02:09:20,043 They shot arrows at each other for a time 638 02:09:22,130 --> 02:09:26,633 Then the Genji ships moved in the rapid current 639 02:09:26,759 --> 02:09:34,516 And sailed into the midst of the Heike ships 640 02:10:09,927 --> 02:10:15,432 Friend was mixed with foe 641 02:10:17,059 --> 02:10:23,899 The straits were filled with ships 642 02:10:24,025 --> 02:10:31,865 Like dead leaves carpeting the waves of a river 643 02:10:58,017 --> 02:11:04,272 At that moment 644 02:11:06,067 --> 02:11:14,533 Lord Tomomori, a Heike warrior, stood up 645 02:11:16,035 --> 02:11:22,207 "Listen, men 646 02:11:22,792 --> 02:11:29,548 The fate of our clan 647 02:11:30,550 --> 02:11:36,096 Rests on this battle 648 02:11:38,599 --> 02:11:44,771 Why begrudge losing your lives? 649 02:11:45,606 --> 02:11:49,276 Fight well, men! 650 02:11:49,944 --> 02:11:56,616 That's all I ask" 651 02:11:59,745 --> 02:12:10,797 Thus he cried out two times, three times 652 02:13:36,884 --> 02:13:44,432 "Though you were born an emperor" 653 02:13:45,351 --> 02:13:51,856 Said Lady Nii 654 02:13:55,820 --> 02:14:04,411 "Your good fortune has run out 655 02:14:08,457 --> 02:14:18,383 Amida will welcome you in the Western Pure Land 656 02:14:23,556 --> 02:14:30,854 Hurry and invoke Amida Buddha's sacred name 657 02:14:33,274 --> 02:14:37,527 Beneath the waves 658 02:14:37,862 --> 02:14:44,492 Another capital city awaits" 659 02:14:45,286 --> 02:14:48,872 Hoichi! 660 02:14:58,174 --> 02:15:00,425 Hoichi! 661 02:15:24,867 --> 02:15:34,167 Holding the infant emperor in her arms 662 02:15:34,502 --> 02:15:42,884 She threw herself into the fathomless sea 663 02:15:43,427 --> 02:15:47,055 Hoichi! 664 02:16:05,616 --> 02:16:07,659 - Hoichi! - What are you doing? 665 02:16:07,785 --> 02:16:10,870 How dare you interrupt me before this noble assembly! 666 02:16:10,996 --> 02:16:13,289 What are you saying? You must be mad. 667 02:16:13,415 --> 02:16:15,208 He's possessed! 668 02:16:15,334 --> 02:16:17,377 Let's go home. Hurry! 669 02:16:17,503 --> 02:16:19,963 You'll be dead if you stay here. 670 02:16:20,214 --> 02:16:21,381 Come on! 671 02:16:21,632 --> 02:16:25,093 You'll be punished for taking me away. Let me go! 672 02:16:25,302 --> 02:16:27,303 Listen to us. Come home! 673 02:16:27,429 --> 02:16:29,848 Let go of me! 674 02:16:32,601 --> 02:16:34,561 Leave me alone. - Come home! 675 02:16:34,728 --> 02:16:36,771 It's the priest's orders! 676 02:16:36,981 --> 02:16:39,148 Let me go! 677 02:16:39,608 --> 02:16:41,901 Have you gone mad? 678 02:16:42,403 --> 02:16:43,444 Let me go! 679 02:17:56,226 --> 02:18:01,481 Why didn't you tell me this sooner? 680 02:18:02,566 --> 02:18:04,525 Poor boy. 681 02:18:06,236 --> 02:18:10,615 Now you're in great danger. 682 02:18:13,827 --> 02:18:16,871 No doubt they drew you in 683 02:18:17,164 --> 02:18:19,916 for your exceptional musical skills. 684 02:18:20,042 --> 02:18:24,045 You haven't been visiting a manor 685 02:18:24,171 --> 02:18:26,506 but a graveyard. 686 02:18:27,967 --> 02:18:33,930 The spirits of the entire Heike clan are interred there. 687 02:18:34,515 --> 02:18:39,143 You've been led night after night into a cemetery. 688 02:18:41,021 --> 02:18:45,149 You must be aware of that by now. 689 02:18:45,609 --> 02:18:47,652 You understand? 690 02:18:48,112 --> 02:18:51,823 Last night you sat before the grave of Emperor Antoku. 691 02:18:56,662 --> 02:19:00,456 You've imagined the whole thing. 692 02:19:00,916 --> 02:19:03,501 It's all been an illusion... 693 02:19:04,378 --> 02:19:07,380 except the visits of the dead. 694 02:19:08,173 --> 02:19:11,759 You mean a spirit really did come here? 695 02:19:12,052 --> 02:19:13,678 Yes. 696 02:19:14,513 --> 02:19:18,141 A spirit did come. That's a fact. 697 02:19:19,268 --> 02:19:24,480 Once you do what a spirit tells you, 698 02:19:24,606 --> 02:19:28,317 you put yourself in its power. 699 02:19:29,236 --> 02:19:33,239 If you continue to obey... 700 02:19:34,908 --> 02:19:38,578 you'll be possessed, perhaps even killed. 701 02:19:40,748 --> 02:19:43,541 In either case... 702 02:19:43,917 --> 02:19:47,545 you'll be dead sooner or later. 703 02:19:49,673 --> 02:19:55,219 So the spirit will come to the grounds again tonight? 704 02:22:43,680 --> 02:22:45,306 Tonight... 705 02:22:45,974 --> 02:22:48,559 after we leave for the service... 706 02:22:48,685 --> 02:22:52,647 sit down on the veranda and wait. 707 02:22:53,357 --> 02:22:57,360 The spirit will surely come for you. 708 02:23:00,405 --> 02:23:03,824 But whatever happens... 709 02:23:03,951 --> 02:23:06,118 do not answer. 710 02:23:08,997 --> 02:23:11,249 And do not move. 711 02:23:13,377 --> 02:23:17,672 Say nothing and sit still... 712 02:23:18,632 --> 02:23:21,968 as if in meditation. 713 02:23:24,972 --> 02:23:26,889 You understand? 714 02:23:28,141 --> 02:23:32,478 If you stir or make a sound, 715 02:23:32,646 --> 02:23:36,148 you'll be torn to pieces. 716 02:23:37,109 --> 02:23:40,987 To escape his wrath, control your fear, 717 02:23:41,488 --> 02:23:44,949 and don't even think of calling for help. 718 02:23:45,117 --> 02:23:49,662 Even if you cry out, there's no one who can help you. 719 02:23:49,830 --> 02:23:53,332 Remain absolutely silent. Is that clear? 720 02:23:56,211 --> 02:24:01,841 Don't speak or move, and you will make it through alive. 721 02:24:04,011 --> 02:24:05,886 I won't move. 722 02:24:06,096 --> 02:24:07,972 I won't make a sound. 723 02:24:08,265 --> 02:24:10,016 You understand? 724 02:24:11,143 --> 02:24:14,145 - No matter what? - No matter what. 725 02:24:15,272 --> 02:24:17,023 I promise. 726 02:24:17,190 --> 02:24:21,736 Donkai, you've covered every inch of his body with The Heart Sutra? 727 02:24:22,821 --> 02:24:28,284 From his face, to his fingertips, to the soles of his feet. 728 02:24:29,202 --> 02:24:30,953 Good. 729 02:25:22,047 --> 02:25:24,757 "I entrust my soul to Amida Buddha..." 730 02:26:04,131 --> 02:26:05,714 Hoichi. 731 02:26:33,285 --> 02:26:35,119 No answer. 732 02:26:35,245 --> 02:26:36,996 This won't do. 733 02:26:37,330 --> 02:26:39,415 Where is he? 734 02:26:40,000 --> 02:26:41,917 I must find him. 735 02:27:17,871 --> 02:27:21,540 What do we have here? There's his biwa. 736 02:27:28,924 --> 02:27:31,675 But where's the biwa player? 737 02:27:33,428 --> 02:27:35,221 Ears! 738 02:27:46,733 --> 02:27:49,443 No wonder he didn't answer. 739 02:27:49,736 --> 02:27:52,112 He has no mouth to answer with. 740 02:27:55,575 --> 02:27:59,495 There's nothing left of him but his ears. 741 02:28:00,747 --> 02:28:02,831 This is very strange. 742 02:28:03,750 --> 02:28:05,417 Very well. 743 02:28:05,544 --> 02:28:08,295 I'll explain all of this to my lord... 744 02:28:08,964 --> 02:28:11,715 and take these ears along as proof. 745 02:28:12,092 --> 02:28:16,929 Yes... I must prove that I carried out my orders. 746 02:29:56,071 --> 02:29:57,571 Blood! 747 02:30:00,533 --> 02:30:02,034 Master! 748 02:30:09,250 --> 02:30:11,669 It thins out toward the rear gate! 749 02:30:20,387 --> 02:30:21,887 Hoichi! 750 02:30:23,723 --> 02:30:25,224 Hoichi! 751 02:30:27,977 --> 02:30:29,728 Are you there? 752 02:30:30,230 --> 02:30:31,730 Hoichi! 753 02:30:51,793 --> 02:30:54,002 My goodness! 754 02:30:57,966 --> 02:30:59,758 Hurry and clean it up. 755 02:31:00,969 --> 02:31:04,179 What happened to Hoichi? 756 02:31:06,933 --> 02:31:08,684 His ears were torn off. 757 02:31:09,060 --> 02:31:10,436 What? 758 02:31:10,687 --> 02:31:12,688 His ears? 759 02:31:30,623 --> 02:31:32,624 But why his ears? 760 02:31:33,293 --> 02:31:35,127 Both of them? 761 02:31:35,253 --> 02:31:37,254 Donkai. 762 02:31:40,175 --> 02:31:42,593 Does the ghost like ears? 763 02:31:46,639 --> 02:31:49,141 That's not a piece of dried squid! 764 02:31:51,811 --> 02:31:54,980 It was a grievous oversight on our part. 765 02:31:55,857 --> 02:31:58,901 I tried to cover his entire body. 766 02:31:59,360 --> 02:32:03,155 You forgot to write the sutra on his ears. 767 02:32:03,323 --> 02:32:05,199 I feel terrible. 768 02:32:05,366 --> 02:32:08,327 No matter how many times you say that, 769 02:32:08,661 --> 02:32:11,789 his ears won't grow back. 770 02:32:16,002 --> 02:32:21,965 I should have checked one last time. 771 02:32:22,634 --> 02:32:25,135 I was careless. 772 02:32:25,678 --> 02:32:29,097 I never imagined it would take his ears away. 773 02:32:29,808 --> 02:32:33,352 There's nothing we can do now. 774 02:32:33,686 --> 02:32:37,356 We must help his wounds heal as quickly as possible. 775 02:32:40,944 --> 02:32:42,277 But be glad. 776 02:32:44,739 --> 02:32:49,952 He traded his ears for his life. He's out of danger now. 777 02:32:50,954 --> 02:32:54,623 You mean we won't see those visitors again? 778 02:32:55,834 --> 02:32:57,459 They'll come no more. 779 02:33:10,098 --> 02:33:13,141 Hoichi the Earless has recently risen to sudden fame. 780 02:33:13,601 --> 02:33:17,479 My lord would like to hear him play the biwa. 781 02:33:19,232 --> 02:33:23,652 My lord heard of the strange story. 782 02:33:24,237 --> 02:33:26,780 He will spare no expense. 783 02:33:26,906 --> 02:33:31,869 By his order, I've come to take Hoichi with me. 784 02:33:50,179 --> 02:33:52,514 - He's here again. - What? 785 02:33:52,640 --> 02:33:54,766 With a full retinue. 786 02:34:39,312 --> 02:34:42,147 This time it's a full retinue of women! 787 02:34:42,273 --> 02:34:45,150 I can't tell who's fake and who's real. 788 02:34:45,276 --> 02:34:47,903 Maybe the ghost is among them. 789 02:34:50,740 --> 02:34:52,407 Hoichi. 790 02:34:53,368 --> 02:34:56,244 Just refuse and tell them you have too many offers. 791 02:34:59,749 --> 02:35:01,249 No. 792 02:35:01,751 --> 02:35:03,669 As long as I live... 793 02:35:05,797 --> 02:35:07,965 I'll continue to play the biwa. 794 02:35:18,643 --> 02:35:24,564 I'll play with all my soul to mourn those thousands of spirits... 795 02:35:25,566 --> 02:35:28,151 who burn with bitter hatred. 796 02:36:50,651 --> 02:36:55,405 Soon money and gifts began pouring into the temple 797 02:36:55,615 --> 02:36:58,533 from far and wide. 798 02:36:58,785 --> 02:37:02,621 Hoichi the Earless became a very wealthy man. 799 02:37:48,751 --> 02:37:51,378 THE YEAR 1900 (YEAR 32 OF THE MEIJI ERA) 800 02:37:53,798 --> 02:37:57,676 Some of the old tales of Japan 801 02:37:58,344 --> 02:38:03,098 have come down to us in curiously unfinished form. 802 02:38:05,685 --> 02:38:10,689 Why were they left unfinished? 803 02:38:12,024 --> 02:38:15,944 Perhaps the writer was lazy. 804 02:38:16,863 --> 02:38:20,866 Perhaps he had a quarrel with his publisher. 805 02:38:21,701 --> 02:38:26,454 Perhaps he was suddenly called away from his little desk 806 02:38:26,622 --> 02:38:28,498 and never returned. 807 02:38:30,543 --> 02:38:34,921 Perhaps Death stopped his writing brush 808 02:38:35,381 --> 02:38:38,842 in the middle of a sentence. 809 02:38:40,511 --> 02:38:43,680 In any event, nobody can say 810 02:38:43,806 --> 02:38:45,849 why there's no ending. 811 02:38:47,059 --> 02:38:51,813 But I would like to record here one such example. 812 02:38:54,817 --> 02:38:58,069 It was 220 years ago today ‒ 813 02:38:58,279 --> 02:39:02,282 New Year's Day in the fourth year of the Tenna era. 814 02:39:04,285 --> 02:39:08,580 IN A CUP OF TEA 815 02:39:17,256 --> 02:39:21,301 Lord Sado Nakagawa was making his round of New Year's visits. 816 02:39:23,971 --> 02:39:29,684 He stopped with his entourage at his family temple in Hongo. 817 02:43:34,513 --> 02:43:37,390 You may now assume your duties. 818 02:43:38,767 --> 02:43:41,478 I shall relieve you in the morning. 819 02:45:37,011 --> 02:45:39,596 I am Heinai Shikibu. 820 02:45:39,722 --> 02:45:42,640 I met you earlier today for the first time. 821 02:45:48,105 --> 02:45:51,774 You don't seem to recognize me. 822 02:46:30,689 --> 02:46:33,149 I don't recognize you. 823 02:46:33,359 --> 02:46:35,526 Nonetheless... 824 02:46:35,694 --> 02:46:39,656 I'd like to hear how you gained entry to this manor. 825 02:46:40,282 --> 02:46:44,869 Ah, so you don't recognize me? 826 02:46:45,037 --> 02:46:46,871 I've never met you. 827 02:46:47,164 --> 02:46:51,417 Furthermore, a lord's compound is guarded day and night. 828 02:46:51,627 --> 02:46:54,462 No one can enter unannounced. 829 02:46:55,756 --> 02:46:59,842 I don't see how you could fail to recognize me. 830 02:47:01,637 --> 02:47:05,306 Just this morning you caused me great harm! 831 02:48:44,490 --> 02:48:46,616 Intruder! 832 02:48:51,371 --> 02:48:53,790 All hands, fall in! 833 02:48:58,420 --> 02:49:00,588 There's an intruder! 834 02:49:06,720 --> 02:49:08,930 All hands, fall in! 835 02:49:36,250 --> 02:49:37,750 Kannai! 836 02:49:39,378 --> 02:49:45,466 Nobody was seen entering or leaving the compound. 837 02:49:45,717 --> 02:49:47,176 But I saw him. 838 02:49:47,302 --> 02:49:51,764 Nobody in the clan has ever heard of a Heinai Shikibu. 839 02:49:52,015 --> 02:49:53,724 I lunged at his throat! 840 02:49:53,892 --> 02:49:57,144 - Did you strike him? - That's the strange part. 841 02:49:57,729 --> 02:50:00,731 We looked everywhere. Not a drop of blood. 842 02:50:00,899 --> 02:50:02,692 Kannai! 843 02:50:03,068 --> 02:50:06,654 Stranger still, he passed through the wall without a sound. 844 02:50:07,990 --> 02:50:09,907 Passed through the wall? 845 02:50:10,409 --> 02:50:13,077 You mean to say he vanished into a wall? 846 02:50:13,287 --> 02:50:14,287 Yes. 847 02:50:15,122 --> 02:50:17,748 - Without a sound? - That's correct. 848 02:50:19,376 --> 02:50:22,253 That explains why we couldn't find him. 849 02:50:23,255 --> 02:50:25,506 After all, he vanished into the wall. 850 02:50:28,969 --> 02:50:31,512 You're tired. You're seeing things. 851 02:50:32,598 --> 02:50:34,307 No, I'm sure I saw him. 852 02:50:34,433 --> 02:50:36,851 Men! 853 02:50:39,146 --> 02:50:42,523 Where did the intruder go? 854 02:50:42,649 --> 02:50:44,442 Doesn't anybody know? 855 02:50:44,610 --> 02:50:46,861 He's lightning fast! 856 02:51:31,907 --> 02:51:36,077 Won't you go to bed, brother? 857 02:51:36,995 --> 02:51:38,955 It's late. 858 02:51:42,334 --> 02:51:44,669 How are Mother and Father? 859 02:51:45,212 --> 02:51:47,713 They already went to sleep. 860 02:51:52,010 --> 02:51:55,888 Could you ask the servant to bring some sake to help me sleep? 861 02:51:59,810 --> 02:52:01,936 Are you still anxious about last night? 862 02:52:03,605 --> 02:52:07,024 No. I'm off duty tonight. 863 02:52:07,442 --> 02:52:09,527 I just want to sleep soundly. 864 02:52:27,796 --> 02:52:30,214 Excuse me, sir. 865 02:52:45,439 --> 02:52:46,939 What is it? 866 02:52:47,149 --> 02:52:50,234 We have visitors, sir. 867 02:52:50,402 --> 02:52:51,902 What? 868 02:52:53,739 --> 02:52:55,865 Who? Where? 869 02:52:56,158 --> 02:52:57,908 At the entrance. 870 02:52:58,910 --> 02:53:01,078 At this hour? 871 02:53:02,956 --> 02:53:04,790 What do they want? 872 02:53:05,751 --> 02:53:10,671 They say they'd like a brief conversation with you. 873 02:53:11,590 --> 02:53:14,300 - Didn't they give their names? - No. 874 02:53:14,551 --> 02:53:17,928 There are three of them. 875 02:54:10,941 --> 02:54:12,858 I am Kannai. 876 02:54:17,989 --> 02:54:20,533 I'm Bungo Matsuoka. 877 02:54:21,743 --> 02:54:23,953 I'm Kyuzo Dobashi. 878 02:54:25,539 --> 02:54:28,082 I'm Heiroku Okamura. 879 02:54:28,750 --> 02:54:31,085 We're retainers of Heinai Shikibu. 880 02:54:31,545 --> 02:54:33,671 Heinai Shikibu! 881 02:54:34,923 --> 02:54:36,757 That's right. 882 02:54:37,676 --> 02:54:40,344 When our master visited you last night, 883 02:54:40,512 --> 02:54:43,347 you struck him with your sword. 884 02:54:44,015 --> 02:54:45,683 He was badly hurt 885 02:54:45,809 --> 02:54:49,854 and has gone to a hot spring to tend to his wound. 886 02:54:49,980 --> 02:54:52,273 I'm sorry to hear that. 887 02:54:54,109 --> 02:54:58,362 But he will return on the 16th of next month 888 02:54:59,072 --> 02:55:02,992 and come to pay his respects... and avenge himself! 889 02:55:03,118 --> 02:55:04,201 What? 890 02:55:28,226 --> 02:55:29,935 There you are! 891 02:59:00,313 --> 02:59:02,272 "And then..." 892 02:59:03,608 --> 02:59:05,943 But here the old tale ends. 893 02:59:31,678 --> 02:59:34,596 No, I didn't see him go out. 894 02:59:58,872 --> 03:00:01,832 He's been writing all day. 895 03:00:02,000 --> 03:00:04,501 That's because of my deadline. 896 03:00:04,627 --> 03:00:06,670 I'm his publisher. 897 03:00:10,258 --> 03:00:13,177 He couldn't have left. I'm certain of it. 898 03:00:13,303 --> 03:00:17,723 Well, I just dropped in to give him my New Year's greetings. 899 03:00:17,849 --> 03:00:20,350 Would you like to wait inside? 900 03:00:49,297 --> 03:00:53,675 I can imagine several possible endings. 901 03:00:55,011 --> 03:00:58,222 But none of them would leave you satisfied. 902 03:01:00,433 --> 03:01:06,230 I'll just leave it to you to imagine for yourself the best ending 903 03:01:06,397 --> 03:01:10,192 to a story about a man who swallowed another's soul. 904 03:01:11,819 --> 03:01:14,571 A man who swallows a soul... 905 03:03:08,394 --> 03:03:12,522 THE END