1 00:00:50,100 --> 00:01:00,300 Meiji 7 (1874). Tokyo Prison, Hachioji, Kanagawa Prefecture Branch 2 00:02:35,780 --> 00:02:38,740 Yuki... 3 00:02:50,860 --> 00:02:54,260 You were born for vengeance... 4 00:02:54,340 --> 00:02:57,340 Such a poor child... 5 00:02:59,380 --> 00:03:02,380 A child of the netherworlds... 6 00:03:09,140 --> 00:03:20,340 Lady Snowblood 7 00:04:04,860 --> 00:04:06,260 Move it! 8 00:04:06,340 --> 00:04:09,300 Get out of our way, woman! 9 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:13,460 Who do you think you are?! 10 00:04:13,540 --> 00:04:18,420 Do you realize that he's Shibayama Genzo, the Asakura Senryo Gang leader? 11 00:04:21,180 --> 00:04:23,900 It doesn't matter! Kill her! 12 00:04:22,260 --> 00:04:23,900 You bitch! 13 00:04:30,220 --> 00:04:32,460 What are you, an assassin?! 14 00:04:31,460 --> 00:04:34,860 You little bitch! 15 00:04:32,620 --> 00:04:34,860 Don't kill her... 16 00:04:35,020 --> 00:04:36,940 I want her to tell us what fool hired her. 17 00:04:37,260 --> 00:04:38,660 Yessir! 18 00:04:37,340 --> 00:04:38,660 Yessir! 19 00:04:52,020 --> 00:04:55,660 Who are you?! Speak! 20 00:04:55,780 --> 00:04:58,740 Who gave you orders to come after me...of all people?! 21 00:04:59,820 --> 00:05:01,860 Answer me! 22 00:05:17,740 --> 00:05:19,980 Wh... Who are you...? 23 00:05:21,540 --> 00:05:27,060 Revenge.. 24 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:27,060 Wh...Wh...Whoose?! 25 00:05:27,180 --> 00:05:31,780 All those helpless people that have suffered, thanks to you... 26 00:05:31,940 --> 00:05:36,700 Woman, wh...wh...who the hell are you?! 27 00:05:36,820 --> 00:05:38,740 Lady Snowblood. 28 00:06:11,180 --> 00:06:23,500 Begrieving snow falls... in the dead morning... 29 00:06:23,580 --> 00:06:35,740 Stray dog's howls... and the footsteps of Gete pierce the air... 30 00:06:35,780 --> 00:06:42,780 I walk with the weigth of the Milky Way on my shoulders... 31 00:06:42,860 --> 00:06:52,820 ...but an umbrella that holds onto the darkness is all there is. 32 00:06:53,900 --> 00:07:00,060 I'm a woman who walks at the brink of life and death... 33 00:07:00,140 --> 00:07:08,860 ...who's emptied my tears many moons ago... 34 00:07:08,980 --> 00:07:15,900 All the compassion, tears and dreams... 35 00:07:15,980 --> 00:07:26,980 ...the snowy nights... and tomorrow... hold no meaning... 36 00:07:27,060 --> 00:07:33,300 I've immersed my body in the river of vengeance... 37 00:07:33,380 --> 00:07:44,380 ...and thrown away my womanhood many moons ago... 38 00:07:50,940 --> 00:07:56,380 Chapter One: Vengeance Binds Love and Hate 39 00:07:57,060 --> 00:07:59,340 Over twenty years have flown by... 40 00:07:59,420 --> 00:08:04,740 ...since the new era of Meiji ended three centuries of peaceful Tokugawa rule. 41 00:08:04,820 --> 00:08:06,220 The European ideas of social progress... 42 00:08:06,300 --> 00:08:11,460 ...that once greatly unsettled the people are becoming widely accepted. 43 00:08:11,540 --> 00:08:14,260 Still, provincial disputes continue unabated... 44 00:08:14,380 --> 00:08:18,020 ...as do unfair practices by mercenary plutocrats and shady businessmen... 45 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:21,500 ...and actions taken by corrupt officials seeking only to benefit themselves. 46 00:08:21,620 --> 00:08:26,660 And, self-indulgent, rich men and women only grew in number... 47 00:08:26,740 --> 00:08:28,260 ...while the pleas of poor peasants... 48 00:08:28,340 --> 00:08:32,740 ...who could barely make ends meet, remained unanswered. 49 00:08:34,820 --> 00:08:39,820 And at this time, there lived a woman of the netherworlds. 50 00:08:50,660 --> 00:08:54,220 Everyone knew her flowery beauty... 51 00:08:54,300 --> 00:08:58,420 ...but, not many knew that deep inside her seemingly gentle and pure heart... 52 00:08:58,500 --> 00:09:02,020 ...burned a raging desire to hunt down her enemies. 53 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:07,700 People say...that what cleanses this world of decay is not pure white snow... 54 00:09:07,740 --> 00:09:10,740 ...but snow that is stained fiery-red: "the snow of the netherworlds." 55 00:09:25,180 --> 00:09:28,140 Damn it... 56 00:09:29,940 --> 00:09:32,940 Pardon me... 57 00:09:33,980 --> 00:09:35,700 I would like to see Sir Matsuemon... 58 00:09:46,940 --> 00:09:50,260 Where can I find Sir Matsuemon, your leader? 59 00:09:50,340 --> 00:09:52,620 Please, would you take me to him? 60 00:09:52,780 --> 00:09:55,860 Come with me. 61 00:09:56,020 --> 00:09:59,180 Please! Please! 62 00:10:18,140 --> 00:10:19,580 Pass it around! 63 00:10:19,740 --> 00:10:22,980 Pass it around! Pass it around! 64 00:10:23,220 --> 00:10:25,900 Pass it around! Pass it around! 65 00:10:26,060 --> 00:10:28,940 Anything that comes here gets passed around! 66 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:31,100 That is the law of our band! 67 00:10:31,260 --> 00:10:33,180 C'mon now! Pass it around! 68 00:10:33,340 --> 00:10:36,300 Pass it around! Pass it around! 69 00:10:36,420 --> 00:10:40,580 This goddess of sex is here for us! 70 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:46,940 You think you're tough?! 71 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:50,020 She got me! 72 00:10:47,020 --> 00:10:50,020 Kill this bitch! 73 00:10:54,140 --> 00:10:55,740 Stop! 74 00:10:56,380 --> 00:10:59,460 Stop! Stop it! 75 00:10:59,580 --> 00:11:02,100 Fool! Idiot! 76 00:11:01,260 --> 00:11:02,900 Ow! 77 00:11:02,220 --> 00:11:05,300 How dare you! 78 00:11:03,060 --> 00:11:05,300 Wh...Wh...What the...? 79 00:11:05,460 --> 00:11:13,180 You fools... How dare you act like stray dogs in heat?! 80 00:11:13,340 --> 00:11:14,820 But, Boss... 81 00:11:14,020 --> 00:11:15,620 You idiot! 82 00:11:14,980 --> 00:11:15,620 Sir... 83 00:11:15,780 --> 00:11:20,180 The lady is a very important guest of mine. 84 00:11:20,300 --> 00:11:21,340 What?! 85 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:27,220 As you know, that ruthless bastard Shiba-Gen... 86 00:11:27,340 --> 00:11:31,380 ...tried to destroy our village by bankrupring us. 87 00:11:31,460 --> 00:11:34,860 This lady is the one... 88 00:11:34,940 --> 00:11:37,060 ...who croaked him! 89 00:11:39,220 --> 00:11:43,460 Miss... I was told that you make your living as an assassin... 90 00:11:43,540 --> 00:11:46,500 ...yet, looking at you, I cannot imagine you hurting a fly. 91 00:11:46,580 --> 00:11:48,780 Tell me, Miss Shurayuki... 92 00:11:48,860 --> 00:11:51,860 ...what is it that you seek? 93 00:12:00,180 --> 00:12:01,980 Sir Matsuemon... 94 00:12:02,060 --> 00:12:06,140 I would like to request your assistance in finding these individuals. 95 00:12:07,780 --> 00:12:11,860 Takemura Banzo... Tsukamoto Gishiro... 96 00:12:11,940 --> 00:12:14,740 ...Kitahama Okono... 97 00:12:14,820 --> 00:12:18,420 Oh... all three seem to be from... 98 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:23,060 ...the Koichi Village, in the Aimi District of Shimane Prefecture. 99 00:12:23,140 --> 00:12:28,340 Now, Koichi Village... that's where I grew up. 100 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:33,980 It has taken me a whole year... to ascertain that very fact. 101 00:12:34,140 --> 00:12:37,100 But, tell me... Why? 102 00:12:37,260 --> 00:12:41,620 Are you familiar with the Ketsuzei Riots that occured in the 6th year of Meiji? 103 00:12:41,780 --> 00:12:46,820 The Ketsuzei Riots? I can't say that I don't know of it... 104 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:27,680 These three explited that situation 105 00:12:49,060 --> 00:12:51,660 ...and swindled large sums from the villages of kiochi 106 00:12:51,740 --> 00:12:56,180 ...by running a "draft- exclusion" scam... 107 00:12:56,300 --> 00:12:58,780 ...and then skipping out without a trace. 108 00:12:58,940 --> 00:13:01,620 I don't know all the details... 109 00:13:01,700 --> 00:13:07,820 ...but I heard that there were four culprits, not three. 110 00:13:07,940 --> 00:13:09,540 Yes sir. 111 00:13:09,620 --> 00:13:13,700 Of the four... Shokei Tokuichi is now dead... 112 00:13:15,180 --> 00:13:17,500 He was killed. 113 00:13:21,540 --> 00:13:27,140 I beseech you, sir. Please find those three. 114 00:13:27,260 --> 00:13:29,860 I hear you... 115 00:13:29,940 --> 00:13:32,260 ...but, without knowing what they look like... 116 00:13:32,420 --> 00:13:34,820 ...knowing their names alone won't be much help. 117 00:13:34,900 --> 00:13:38,020 That is not true! I believe that you can do it, sir! 118 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:40,740 It should be possible to find many people who know of them. 119 00:13:40,820 --> 00:13:42,460 As your clan is spread widely across the entire nation... 120 00:13:42,540 --> 00:13:46,060 ...if you were to use your many connections... 121 00:13:46,180 --> 00:13:47,180 ...I know that you could succeed! 122 00:13:47,340 --> 00:13:51,100 I don't believe that it is impossible... 123 00:13:51,220 --> 00:13:54,100 But... what exactly are you after? 124 00:13:57,420 --> 00:14:02,580 The 6th year of Meiji... I doubt that you had even been born yet. 125 00:14:04,380 --> 00:14:09,380 It could be said that Karma can stain the unborn... 126 00:14:20,740 --> 00:14:25,140 All the young men of this nation, as of their seventeenth birthday... 127 00:14:25,220 --> 00:14:28,740 ...will be registered for the draft, and assigned to the army or reserves. 128 00:14:28,820 --> 00:14:32,700 Their service is required to defend the nation. 129 00:14:32,780 --> 00:14:35,180 On November 10th, all familt heads must register... 130 00:14:35,260 --> 00:14:38,100 ...their sixteen year-old male children with town officials. 131 00:14:38,180 --> 00:14:39,780 Upon reaching the age of twenty... 132 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,800 ...all such man will be inducted into the military. 133 00:14:43,260 --> 00:14:45,820 Going back in time... over twenty years ago... 134 00:14:45,900 --> 00:14:50,380 In the Sixth year of Meiji, March... the nation's first draft mandate... 135 00:14:50,460 --> 00:14:53,260 ...was enacted by the Cabinet. 136 00:14:53,380 --> 00:14:55,460 The new government sought to strengthen the nation through militarism... 137 00:14:55,540 --> 00:14:57,620 ...believing that the modernization of Japan must be based... 138 00:14:57,700 --> 00:15:03,340 ...on the development of military power similar to that of foreign superpowers. 139 00:15:03,420 --> 00:15:07,580 However... the peasants did not consider it to be a reasonable measure... 140 00:15:07,660 --> 00:15:12,580 ...and soon their discontent exploded in riots. 141 00:15:12,660 --> 00:15:14,620 The end to these uprisings was nowhere in sight... 142 00:15:14,700 --> 00:15:19,340 Destruction, robbery, arson... and other acts of rebellion continued without end. 143 00:15:19,420 --> 00:15:24,020 Many strange rumors circulated, the most famous being about the "Men in White". 144 00:15:24,100 --> 00:15:28,620 Men dressed in white were said to be the pawns of the new government... 145 00:15:28,700 --> 00:15:32,700 ...who killed conscripts and collected their blood for sale to foreign nations. 146 00:15:32,820 --> 00:15:37,940 This is where the first chapter of the tragedy begins. 147 00:15:38,740 --> 00:15:44,700 Meiji 6 (1873), June. Koichi Village, Aimi District, Shimane Prefecture. 148 00:16:26,460 --> 00:16:29,460 Shiro! 149 00:16:32,420 --> 00:16:33,060 Shiro! 150 00:16:32,500 --> 00:16:33,220 Knock it off!! Let me go! 151 00:16:33,180 --> 00:16:35,220 Guys! 152 00:16:33,340 --> 00:16:36,500 Let me go! Mommy! 153 00:16:35,380 --> 00:16:36,500 Shiro! 154 00:16:36,660 --> 00:16:39,700 Let's go. 155 00:16:36,740 --> 00:16:39,700 Get off, fool! 156 00:16:44,300 --> 00:16:48,300 Knock it off! Let go! Mommy! 157 00:16:51,820 --> 00:16:53,340 Hey! 158 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:55,020 Look at him! He's wearing white! 159 00:16:55,140 --> 00:16:56,620 Knock it off! 160 00:16:55,540 --> 00:16:56,620 It's HIM... 161 00:16:56,780 --> 00:17:00,020 He's the new government man! Kill him! 162 00:17:00,260 --> 00:17:03,300 Don't be ridiculous! I'm... I'm... 163 00:17:03,380 --> 00:17:06,180 ...the new gradeschool teacher who's just moved to this village! 164 00:17:06,340 --> 00:17:07,700 Shut up! Die! 165 00:17:09,380 --> 00:17:12,660 Tsukamoto Gishiro 166 00:17:16,140 --> 00:17:18,660 Takemura Banzo 167 00:17:25,180 --> 00:17:27,700 Shokei Tokuichi 168 00:17:28,020 --> 00:17:30,580 Dear! 169 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:33,620 Kitahama Okono 170 00:17:35,060 --> 00:17:38,180 This is unthinkable! 171 00:17:38,260 --> 00:17:41,260 How could this be?! 172 00:18:14,740 --> 00:18:18,100 Dear! Dear! 173 00:18:18,780 --> 00:18:21,940 Dear! Dear...! 174 00:18:27,100 --> 00:18:29,740 Dear! 175 00:18:56,060 --> 00:18:58,340 Has the moment come? 176 00:18:58,460 --> 00:18:59,620 I believe so. 177 00:18:59,780 --> 00:19:01,300 Then you ought to go... 178 00:19:01,380 --> 00:19:04,700 There is othing to prevent you from walking your path. 179 00:19:05,380 --> 00:19:10,620 Reverend, I must thank you for all these years of training. 180 00:19:10,740 --> 00:19:14,540 I am disheartened because I have not been able to repay you in any way. 181 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:16,460 Don't be ridiculous... 182 00:19:16,580 --> 00:19:19,900 You have a destiny that needs to be realized. 183 00:19:20,020 --> 00:19:21,620 Forget joy, forget sorrow... 184 00:19:21,740 --> 00:19:26,020 ...forget love, and forget hate... 185 00:19:26,140 --> 00:19:28,780 ...except for vengeance, thse must be forgotten. 186 00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:32,060 And thus, there should be no sadness in you. 187 00:19:32,180 --> 00:19:34,460 A child of the netherworlds ought not talk like that. 188 00:19:35,060 --> 00:19:36,940 A "child of the netherworlds..." 189 00:19:37,060 --> 00:19:41,020 ...who knows how many times you've scolded me by calling me that. 190 00:20:06,700 --> 00:20:12,300 "Kajima Sayo" 191 00:20:14,580 --> 00:20:19,220 "Kobayashi Tora" 192 00:20:19,540 --> 00:20:21,420 You are a child of the netherworld... 193 00:20:21,500 --> 00:20:24,140 You are not a being of this early realm. 194 00:20:24,220 --> 00:20:26,540 You are a devil that abides by netherworldly principles... 195 00:20:26,620 --> 00:20:30,420 ...a beast, a devil... one whose disguise is human... 196 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:33,020 ...one so evil that even Buddha cannot save you now. 197 00:20:44,900 --> 00:20:48,620 Sayo! You gotta hang in there! Hang in there! 198 00:20:48,740 --> 00:20:51,780 Otora! Don't just sit there! 199 00:20:51,940 --> 00:20:56,460 I've helped many give birth in this jail... 200 00:20:56,580 --> 00:20:58,260 ...but I've never seen a birth this difficult! 201 00:20:58,580 --> 00:21:02,820 If it goes wrong, Sayo could die! 202 00:21:02,980 --> 00:21:06,500 I... I don't care... if I die... 203 00:21:06,620 --> 00:21:11,300 ...but... at least... save my baby... please... Otora! 204 00:21:11,460 --> 00:21:16,460 This isn't good... it's overdue... the baby's overdue and it's twisted around... 205 00:21:16,620 --> 00:21:19,300 It doesn't matter... 206 00:21:19,380 --> 00:21:23,380 At least save my baby... my baby... 207 00:21:23,540 --> 00:21:26,500 You don't even know whose child you're bearing! 208 00:21:28,540 --> 00:21:33,700 Should... should my baby be stillborn... 209 00:21:33,780 --> 00:21:37,780 ...if that should happen, Otora... I'll kill you! 210 00:22:33,820 --> 00:22:38,820 But, tell me... why did those four commit such a hideous crime? 211 00:22:40,340 --> 00:22:42,420 For profit... 212 00:22:42,580 --> 00:22:45,540 "For profit?" 213 00:22:50,860 --> 00:22:53,420 They told the people that draftees could be excused from service... 214 00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:58,580 ...by paying them a sum of 270 yen... 215 00:22:58,660 --> 00:23:04,100 ...and thus they swindled the villagers out of tens of thousands of yen. 216 00:23:04,180 --> 00:23:06,740 After splitting the money among themselves... 217 00:23:06,820 --> 00:23:10,020 ...they fled from the village, as planned. 218 00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:13,980 Shokei Tokuichi, who desired my body... 219 00:23:14,060 --> 00:23:17,940 ...took me along with him to Tokyo. 220 00:23:19,260 --> 00:23:23,220 In Tokyo, Tokuichi opened a little eatery. 221 00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:27,940 I did as I was told, and waited for the right moment... 222 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:05,380 I killed Tokuichi... 223 00:24:05,460 --> 00:24:09,260 ...and was in the midst of hunting down the remaining three... 224 00:24:09,340 --> 00:24:11,500 ...when I was arrested... 225 00:24:14,940 --> 00:24:19,460 Three more vengeances remain. 226 00:24:19,580 --> 00:24:24,580 But... I've been sentenced to life in prison... 227 00:24:24,660 --> 00:24:31,060 I can no longer... exact my revenge... with my own hands. 228 00:24:31,220 --> 00:24:33,500 Then, you mean for this child to... 229 00:24:33,580 --> 00:24:35,780 ...you want this newborn to... 230 00:24:36,460 --> 00:24:39,420 That's why you kept saying you wanted a strong boy... 231 00:24:42,460 --> 00:24:45,380 Otora... 232 00:24:45,460 --> 00:24:49,300 I can't remember how many times you told me... 233 00:24:49,380 --> 00:24:52,340 "...you're a slut!" 234 00:24:52,420 --> 00:24:58,260 But that's all right... because it was true. 235 00:24:58,340 --> 00:25:03,340 Because I wanted a child so much... I've... 236 00:25:17,340 --> 00:25:21,660 At the women's prison in Ichingaya... 237 00:25:21,740 --> 00:25:24,140 ...and after I arrived here... 238 00:25:24,220 --> 00:25:28,300 ...I acted like a mad bitch in heat... 239 00:25:28,420 --> 00:25:34,540 ...I wantonly seduced men, and screwed one after another. 240 00:25:34,660 --> 00:25:39,700 I knew this made you look upon me with disgust. 241 00:25:39,940 --> 00:25:45,780 For me, there remain things left undone. 242 00:25:45,860 --> 00:25:48,860 Even if I have to devote my next seven lives to it... 243 00:25:48,940 --> 00:25:52,980 ...my vengeance... cannot be denied. 244 00:25:53,060 --> 00:25:57,540 So I... must let this child wreak my vengeance for me. 245 00:25:57,620 --> 00:26:03,140 I'll die... so my spirit can be embodied in her! 246 00:26:03,220 --> 00:26:08,220 That's the only... method of vengeance I have left. 247 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:13,540 Otora... 248 00:26:13,620 --> 00:26:17,420 I beg you... 249 00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:23,780 Okiku... please take care of this child. 250 00:26:37,380 --> 00:26:42,820 You were born for vengeance... Such a poor child... 251 00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:45,420 A child of the netherworlds... 252 00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:47,980 ...but, Yuki... 253 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:51,180 ...you must avenge us without fail... 254 00:26:51,260 --> 00:26:57,140 ...your father... your big brother... 255 00:26:57,220 --> 00:27:03,900 ...and me... 256 00:27:03,980 --> 00:27:06,660 ...Yuki... 257 00:27:06,780 --> 00:27:10,700 ...my... 258 00:27:10,860 --> 00:27:13,740 Sayo! Sayo! 259 00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:17,700 Sayo! 260 00:27:13,860 --> 00:27:17,700 Sayo! 261 00:27:39,420 --> 00:27:32,020 Some time later, Mikazuki Otora was released. 262 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:48,180 She took care of the baby with the help of Dokai, a priest and former liege vassal. 263 00:27:48,260 --> 00:27:54,180 Being a "child of the netherworlds", Yuki received severe training from Dokai. 264 00:27:54,260 --> 00:27:58,580 Weighing down her little shoulders were sad thoughts of vengeance... 265 00:27:58,660 --> 00:28:03,740 ...but despite this, Yuki endured great hardships, and survived the training. 266 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:07,380 Meiji 15 (1882) 267 00:28:08,420 --> 00:28:11,300 Kashima Yuki, Age 8 268 00:28:15,060 --> 00:28:17,180 Stretch out your hands and feet... 269 00:28:17,260 --> 00:28:19,780 Don't get thrown out, Yuki! 270 00:28:19,940 --> 00:28:21,420 Yessir! 271 00:28:21,580 --> 00:28:24,540 Here we go... 272 00:28:45,740 --> 00:28:48,700 Yuki! 273 00:28:49,620 --> 00:28:53,300 Stand up! Stand up! Yuki! 274 00:28:59,420 --> 00:29:02,380 Yuki! 275 00:29:07,340 --> 00:29:08,580 Yuki! 276 00:29:10,460 --> 00:29:12,900 Until the barrel stops naturally after rolling down the hill... 277 00:29:12,980 --> 00:29:14,460 ...you must not become dislodged! 278 00:29:19,140 --> 00:29:22,620 You were not born as a human child. 279 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:24,740 You were born a child of the netherworlds... 280 00:29:24,860 --> 00:29:28,700 ...who will devote your own life to avenge another's death. 281 00:29:28,780 --> 00:29:33,180 You must never forget that this is your duty. 282 00:29:33,460 --> 00:29:36,700 Feel like a beast! Become a beast! 283 00:29:43,060 --> 00:29:46,060 What are you looking at?! Look into my eyes! 284 00:29:46,140 --> 00:29:49,100 You must look into my eyes! 285 00:30:06,220 --> 00:30:09,180 You fool! Stand up! 286 00:30:23,780 --> 00:30:26,220 Yuki! What's the matter with you?! 287 00:30:27,620 --> 00:30:30,380 Come on now! 288 00:30:35,380 --> 00:30:38,140 C'mon! 289 00:30:41,580 --> 00:30:43,300 What's with that face? 290 00:30:43,380 --> 00:30:46,380 Step out! On your feet! 291 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:25,580 At long last... 292 00:32:25,660 --> 00:32:29,620 At long last, I've managed to come this far... 293 00:32:29,740 --> 00:32:32,700 ...my dear mother... 294 00:32:36,780 --> 00:32:38,900 Though born and raised as a child of the netherworlds... 295 00:32:38,980 --> 00:32:43,900 ...human compassion was never absent from her heart. 296 00:32:43,980 --> 00:32:47,940 Unforgettable memories of her mother overwhelmed her with sadness... 297 00:32:48,020 --> 00:32:50,860 ...yet her journey of vengeance was far from over. 298 00:32:50,940 --> 00:32:57,540 This day... marked the 20th anniversary of her mother Sayo's passing. 299 00:33:00,220 --> 00:33:06,780 Chapter Two: Crying Bamboo Dolls of the Netherworlds 300 00:33:09,180 --> 00:33:10,980 Not many days later... 301 00:33:11,060 --> 00:33:14,420 ...a letter arrived from the leader of the beggar clan, Matsuemon. 302 00:33:14,500 --> 00:33:20,500 Takemura Banzo, one of the villains she sought, had been located. 303 00:34:26,260 --> 00:34:30,180 Dad... I'll go sell all the Chikufujin I've made. 304 00:34:30,340 --> 00:34:32,140 I don't know what to say... 305 00:34:32,220 --> 00:34:33,860 I am always making you work so hard. 306 00:34:34,020 --> 00:34:35,500 What are you talking about...? 307 00:34:35,580 --> 00:34:38,540 There are so many orders that I can't keep up with the demand. 308 00:34:38,700 --> 00:34:40,500 Is that so? 309 00:34:40,580 --> 00:34:44,860 Are they selling that well? 310 00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:44,860 Uh-huh. 311 00:36:25,380 --> 00:36:28,380 You saw me? 312 00:36:27,180 --> 00:36:28,380 Why...? 313 00:36:28,540 --> 00:36:31,140 It doesn't matter. They won't sell anyway. 314 00:36:40,140 --> 00:36:42,780 Here... Keep it. 315 00:36:42,860 --> 00:36:45,540 I made it. 316 00:36:45,620 --> 00:36:48,100 Here you go. 317 00:36:48,260 --> 00:36:50,340 Say... What's your name? 318 00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:53,100 Kobue. Takemura Kobue 319 00:36:53,180 --> 00:36:56,180 Why? 320 00:36:57,420 --> 00:37:00,420 Good-bye. 321 00:37:08,980 --> 00:37:14,140 As usual, here's your three yen. Please count it. 322 00:37:14,260 --> 00:37:17,980 It's correct, sir. 323 00:37:15,580 --> 00:37:17,980 Oh, one more thing... 324 00:37:18,100 --> 00:37:21,060 ...here... 325 00:37:25,020 --> 00:37:28,020 Take it. 326 00:37:28,140 --> 00:37:31,140 Your customer for tonight is a prefectual officer... 327 00:37:31,220 --> 00:37:34,940 ...and he's a very important client of mine too. 328 00:37:35,020 --> 00:37:38,020 So... we expect the best from you. 329 00:37:40,140 --> 00:37:42,100 I know that, sir. 330 00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:43,300 Hey! 331 00:37:43,380 --> 00:37:46,620 Yessiree! Here we go! 332 00:37:54,540 --> 00:37:57,540 Kobue, is that you? 333 00:38:02,620 --> 00:38:04,940 Heh... it's you guys. 334 00:38:05,420 --> 00:38:08,420 Who did you think it was? 335 00:38:08,980 --> 00:38:11,620 Whassup, good Takemura? 336 00:38:11,700 --> 00:38:15,020 You don't look too well. 337 00:38:15,100 --> 00:38:20,700 We're here today representing the House of Hamakatsu... 338 00:38:20,780 --> 00:38:23,660 It doesn't look like Kobue is home yet. 339 00:38:23,820 --> 00:38:27,140 She's out selling her wares. 340 00:38:27,220 --> 00:38:30,220 She's probably shopping on her way back home. 341 00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:34,540 What's so funny? 342 00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:37,100 Look... 343 00:38:37,180 --> 00:38:40,060 ...wake up, why don't you? 344 00:38:40,180 --> 00:38:45,700 Look... do you really think that people are buying your Chikufujin?! 345 00:38:45,780 --> 00:38:47,820 You dumb asshole. 346 00:38:48,220 --> 00:38:49,940 Your daughter, you see, is... 347 00:38:50,060 --> 00:38:54,660 ...throwing everything she makes into the sea! 348 00:38:54,820 --> 00:38:57,860 But, Kobue brings home money... 349 00:38:58,020 --> 00:39:01,820 Do you wanna know where that money comes from?! 350 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:05,900 Look... eight yen in all. 351 00:39:05,980 --> 00:39:09,060 The due date passed long, long ago. 352 00:39:09,180 --> 00:39:10,980 You got to be kidding me! 353 00:39:11,140 --> 00:39:13,700 It's all your fault to begin with. 354 00:39:13,780 --> 00:39:16,260 You're making her sell herself! 355 00:39:16,420 --> 00:39:19,540 Oh, what a poor thing! 356 00:39:19,620 --> 00:39:24,340 She has to do it, to pay for her drunkard daddy's booze and medicine... 357 00:39:24,460 --> 00:39:27,980 Quiet! Kobue would never do such a thing! 358 00:39:29,060 --> 00:39:32,020 Here we go. 359 00:39:40,540 --> 00:39:43,540 Place your bets! 360 00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:42,540 Place your bets, please! 361 00:39:42,660 --> 00:39:45,220 Place your bets. 362 00:39:43,700 --> 00:39:45,220 Place your bets now, please. 363 00:40:01,060 --> 00:40:04,900 Say... is that a girl travelling gambler? 364 00:40:05,060 --> 00:40:08,660 Yes, sir... Apparently, she's from Sanshuu. An independent. 365 00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:11,620 Said her name is "Oyuki..." Is she hot or what?! 366 00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:15,020 She sure gets a rise out of me! 367 00:40:13,540 --> 00:40:16,060 She's no ordinary mouse. 368 00:40:15,180 --> 00:40:16,420 You shouldn't play... 369 00:40:16,220 --> 00:40:17,540 Quiet! 370 00:40:16,540 --> 00:40:18,820 All right! One, folks! 371 00:40:17,660 --> 00:40:19,460 One! 372 00:40:18,980 --> 00:40:21,380 One, folks! 373 00:40:19,620 --> 00:40:21,380 One, folks! 374 00:40:21,540 --> 00:40:22,460 Banzo! 375 00:40:28,860 --> 00:40:32,580 Hey, gimme a card. 376 00:40:29,580 --> 00:40:32,580 Right, next round... 377 00:40:36,820 --> 00:40:39,820 Place your bets! 378 00:40:42,540 --> 00:40:45,260 Place your bets, please. 379 00:40:43,260 --> 00:40:45,260 Place your bets, please. 380 00:40:51,420 --> 00:40:53,180 All right! Four, folks! 381 00:40:52,660 --> 00:40:55,900 Four, folks! 382 00:40:53,340 --> 00:40:55,540 yeah! I got it! 383 00:40:55,660 --> 00:40:57,940 Four, folks! 384 00:40:56,020 --> 00:40:57,940 Four, folks! 385 00:40:58,100 --> 00:41:01,100 Place your next bets, please! 386 00:41:02,860 --> 00:41:04,140 Here we go. 387 00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:06,380 All right. Place your bets please. 388 00:41:05,580 --> 00:41:06,380 Place your bets please. 389 00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:16,060 Here we go. 390 00:41:17,700 --> 00:41:20,660 Next bet... 391 00:41:29,420 --> 00:41:32,420 Here we go. 392 00:41:43,460 --> 00:41:46,140 Bets please. 393 00:41:44,140 --> 00:41:46,140 Bets please. 394 00:41:44,140 --> 00:41:46,140 395 00:42:06,420 --> 00:42:10,140 No more bets! 396 00:42:08,020 --> 00:42:10,140 Score! 397 00:42:10,260 --> 00:42:13,260 Hold it! 398 00:42:16,940 --> 00:42:20,820 Mr. Takemura... we need to talk! 399 00:42:31,940 --> 00:42:35,300 Please forgive me... 400 00:42:33,300 --> 00:42:35,300 Can't do it. 401 00:42:40,460 --> 00:42:43,140 S... Spare me... 402 00:42:43,460 --> 00:42:44,740 Boss... 403 00:42:44,220 --> 00:42:44,740 Huh? 404 00:42:44,900 --> 00:42:47,180 Why don't we roll him up and throw him into the sea! 405 00:42:47,340 --> 00:42:48,700 Don't be in such a hurry. 406 00:42:48,780 --> 00:42:50,460 First, we should torture him as much as we want. 407 00:42:50,620 --> 00:42:53,420 P... Please forgive me! 408 00:42:53,500 --> 00:42:55,340 Y... You can have Kobue... 409 00:42:55,500 --> 00:42:59,020 Too late for that, you smartass! 410 00:42:59,100 --> 00:43:00,780 Fool...! 411 00:43:01,540 --> 00:43:03,300 Please wait. 412 00:43:04,420 --> 00:43:08,300 As a professional, it is my fault that I did not detect his cheating. 413 00:43:09,220 --> 00:43:13,580 Allow me to pay compensation. 414 00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:13,580 It's none of your concern! Butt out! 415 00:43:19,260 --> 00:43:21,380 Just what the hell is going on?! 416 00:43:24,260 --> 00:43:27,020 What is that you want, stranger? 417 00:43:27,700 --> 00:43:29,860 I beg you please... 418 00:43:29,940 --> 00:43:34,460 I must ask you to spare his life, no matter what the cost. 419 00:43:42,980 --> 00:43:48,020 Don't tell me that you knew that he was cheating?! 420 00:43:52,500 --> 00:43:54,460 Well, in any case... 421 00:43:54,540 --> 00:43:58,820 Masa... Kame... let him go. 422 00:43:58,100 --> 00:43:58,820 Boss! 423 00:43:58,980 --> 00:44:02,340 We shouldn't cpmcern ourselves with trivialities like this all the time. 424 00:44:02,500 --> 00:44:03,940 I appreciate this, sir. 425 00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:07,820 You bastard! The next time you show up... 426 00:44:07,900 --> 00:44:09,500 ...forget being rolled up and thrown into the sea... 427 00:44:09,580 --> 00:44:11,660 ...you'll be shredded to bits and fed to the pigs! 428 00:44:11,740 --> 00:44:14,700 You bastard! 429 00:44:25,660 --> 00:44:28,620 Oh? 430 00:44:30,180 --> 00:44:33,180 What brings you here? 431 00:44:36,700 --> 00:44:41,940 If something happens, you should go to Tokyo. 432 00:44:42,020 --> 00:44:47,140 Okiku of Tajire, in Ueno's 7th ward, can put you in touch with me. 433 00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:50,300 Thanks, but I can't leave my dad here. 434 00:45:25,580 --> 00:45:28,780 You're still hanging around? 435 00:45:28,820 --> 00:45:32,780 I owe you one for what you did for me earlier. 436 00:45:32,860 --> 00:45:36,980 But, you know... it wouldn't really matter anyway... 437 00:45:37,100 --> 00:45:40,100 ...wheter I lived or died... 438 00:45:42,580 --> 00:45:45,580 If it weren't for my daughter... 439 00:45:47,500 --> 00:45:51,220 By the way... why did you save my life? 440 00:45:51,380 --> 00:45:54,340 Because we have a little business to take care of, Takemura Banzo! 441 00:45:59,060 --> 00:46:01,060 Shall we go? 442 00:46:01,220 --> 00:46:07,020 Go? Where to? Who are you anyway?! 443 00:46:07,180 --> 00:46:14,020 I've come to take you away... to take you to where you truly belong. 444 00:46:14,100 --> 00:46:20,700 Come now... it's time to start the journey of death. 445 00:46:30,980 --> 00:46:34,340 Who... Who are you? 446 00:46:34,420 --> 00:46:36,900 Just who are you? 447 00:46:36,980 --> 00:46:38,980 What are you gonna do to me? 448 00:46:39,100 --> 00:46:41,900 Are you scared, Banzo? 449 00:46:41,980 --> 00:46:43,740 I bet you are. 450 00:46:43,820 --> 00:46:45,700 A man like you has memories so gruesome... 451 00:46:45,780 --> 00:46:50,180 ...that you can't forget them even if you want to. 452 00:46:50,340 --> 00:46:52,340 What are you talking about? 453 00:46:52,500 --> 00:46:54,660 A long, long time ago... 454 00:46:54,740 --> 00:46:59,900 ...you lived in the village of Kiochi. That's what I'm talking about. 455 00:47:00,140 --> 00:47:03,660 You, Tsukamoto Gishiro... 456 00:47:03,740 --> 00:47:05,580 ...Kitashama Okono... 457 00:47:05,660 --> 00:47:08,260 ...and Shokei Tokuichi... the four of you... 458 00:47:08,340 --> 00:47:11,780 ...in order to swindle money from the unsuspecting villagers... 459 00:47:11,860 --> 00:47:15,140 ...killed an innocent man... 460 00:47:15,220 --> 00:47:18,180 ...and raped and tortured his wife for three days and three nights. 461 00:47:20,540 --> 00:47:23,540 I know nothing! I know nothing about it! 462 00:47:27,380 --> 00:47:31,020 Look closely at my face. 463 00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:34,380 Doesn't this face remind you of somebody... 464 00:47:34,460 --> 00:47:37,460 ...somebody that you have raped? 465 00:47:44,860 --> 00:47:47,940 My name is Shurayuki. 466 00:47:48,020 --> 00:47:53,420 There was a woman who died in a jail... who died cursing you. 467 00:47:53,500 --> 00:47:56,500 I'm the daughter of Kashima Sayo. 468 00:48:06,380 --> 00:48:08,740 I was wrong. 469 00:48:08,820 --> 00:48:12,140 I was wrong. 470 00:48:12,220 --> 00:48:15,420 They made me do it... 471 00:48:15,500 --> 00:48:20,500 I've never been able to forget it... even to this day! Please...! 472 00:48:24,180 --> 00:48:27,580 Where is Gishiro? 473 00:48:27,660 --> 00:48:29,620 Where os Okono? 474 00:48:29,740 --> 00:48:33,620 I don't know! I really don't know! 475 00:48:33,700 --> 00:48:35,940 Please forgive me! Please spare me! 476 00:48:36,100 --> 00:48:39,100 I will neither forgive nor spare you! 477 00:48:41,500 --> 00:48:45,020 Please... 478 00:48:45,100 --> 00:48:49,820 Please don't kill me... Don't slay me... 479 00:48:49,900 --> 00:48:53,620 I beg you... please... 480 00:48:53,700 --> 00:48:56,060 Please, I beg you... 481 00:48:56,140 --> 00:48:59,860 If I die... what happens to my daughter... 482 00:48:59,940 --> 00:49:02,260 ...what about my daughter Kobue? 483 00:49:02,340 --> 00:49:06,540 Please! Please! 484 00:49:07,020 --> 00:49:11,500 For Kobue's sake... 485 00:49:08,260 --> 00:49:11,500 An eye for an eye! 486 00:50:02,460 --> 00:50:06,660 All life is transitory... the virtuous, eternal. 487 00:50:06,740 --> 00:50:11,380 Having slain one of her enemies, it is now the break of dawn. 488 00:50:11,460 --> 00:50:18,460 The sea assaulted the shore, as if it was reflecting Yuki's innermost feelings. 489 00:50:29,180 --> 00:50:34,860 In this journey of vengeance, the end was receeding from view. 490 00:50:38,620 --> 00:50:44,020 Chapter Three: Umbrella of Blood, Heart of Strewn Flowers 491 00:51:04,260 --> 00:51:13,900 "Tsukamoto Gishiro" 492 00:52:31,180 --> 00:52:36,420 "Tajire" 493 00:52:58,740 --> 00:53:01,460 It's just so unfortunate... 494 00:53:01,540 --> 00:53:07,180 When we heard from you that Gishiro was dead... 495 00:53:07,260 --> 00:53:13,940 ...she didn't want to believe it, no matter what I said. 496 00:53:14,020 --> 00:53:18,980 But, now that she's seen his tombstone with her own eyes... 497 00:53:19,060 --> 00:53:22,180 ...well, what else can we do? 498 00:53:22,260 --> 00:53:24,380 It's just to bad... 499 00:53:24,540 --> 00:53:27,700 If only we had... 500 00:53:27,780 --> 00:53:32,620 If only we had gone searching much earlier... 501 00:53:34,580 --> 00:53:37,300 When did he die? 502 00:53:37,460 --> 00:53:39,860 Three years ago... 503 00:53:39,940 --> 00:53:45,500 ...a shipwreck during a voyage to America, or so the story goes. 504 00:53:45,580 --> 00:53:47,500 When he was alive, Gishiro was said to have... 505 00:53:47,580 --> 00:53:52,980 ...been involved with foreigners, smuggling opium. 506 00:53:53,100 --> 00:53:55,980 Three years ago? 507 00:53:56,100 --> 00:54:01,740 Yuki had just come to me to receive pickpocketing training. 508 00:54:01,900 --> 00:54:08,220 The training I have received from the Reerend... and from you Auntie... 509 00:54:08,300 --> 00:54:12,900 ...it's all so that I can personally avenge my mother's death. 510 00:54:12,980 --> 00:54:18,340 Gishiro was the leader of the four villains... 511 00:54:18,420 --> 00:54:21,860 How I longed to destroy him... 512 00:54:21,940 --> 00:54:24,340 ...stricking him down with the sword of vengeance, for my mother's sake. 513 00:54:24,460 --> 00:54:26,380 Oyuki! 514 00:54:26,460 --> 00:54:29,140 Be strong... 515 00:54:29,220 --> 00:54:33,220 Don't you know that you've still got to face one more wrongdoer?! 516 00:54:38,820 --> 00:54:42,180 Sir Matsuemon... 517 00:54:42,260 --> 00:54:44,660 I beseech you... 518 00:54:44,780 --> 00:54:48,020 Please try to find Kitahama Okono as fast as you can. 519 00:54:48,180 --> 00:54:52,420 I have my men working on it, but... 520 00:54:52,500 --> 00:54:55,940 ...there's only so much we can do. 521 00:56:11,140 --> 00:56:14,140 Looking for someone? 522 00:56:22,060 --> 00:56:26,100 We meet at last. I've been looking for you everywhere. 523 00:56:26,900 --> 00:56:31,220 What do you want from me? 524 00:56:27,900 --> 00:56:31,220 I'd like you to explain something. 525 00:56:31,380 --> 00:56:36,420 That tombstone... belonged to a Tsukamoto Gishiro, did it not? 526 00:56:36,580 --> 00:56:38,540 There's nothing I can tell you. 527 00:56:38,660 --> 00:56:40,620 I doubt that's true... 528 00:56:40,700 --> 00:56:43,780 You shredded flowers left as an offering to the dead... 529 00:56:43,860 --> 00:56:46,340 ...something no one would do without a good reason. 530 00:56:46,420 --> 00:56:48,940 So you had something against him... That man, that is. 531 00:56:49,100 --> 00:56:50,820 It's none of your business. 532 00:56:50,980 --> 00:56:52,740 My name is Ashiro Ryurei. 533 00:56:52,820 --> 00:56:55,540 See, I publish a cheap little rag called "The People's Paper." 534 00:56:55,620 --> 00:56:57,860 I also write novels too, when I feel like it. 535 00:56:57,980 --> 00:57:00,660 I guess you could say that I'm just a walking hunk of curiosity. 536 00:57:00,740 --> 00:57:02,820 If something catches my attention... 537 00:57:02,900 --> 00:57:05,380 ...I'll sniff out the truth, no matter what. 538 00:57:05,540 --> 00:57:06,980 You sound like you're a stray dog. 539 00:57:07,140 --> 00:57:11,620 Yes... If I find some leftover meat, then I'm doing well. 540 00:57:11,780 --> 00:57:13,980 It's best if you stop bothering me from now on. 541 00:57:15,100 --> 00:57:17,420 What makes you say that? 542 00:57:17,540 --> 00:57:19,780 That unwise curiosity of yours might cost you your life. 543 00:57:20,540 --> 00:57:24,980 Is that a threat? 544 00:57:22,260 --> 00:57:24,980 If you like 545 00:57:25,140 --> 00:57:27,660 You know, people call me "the man of threats." 546 00:57:27,740 --> 00:57:30,060 People fear me because I use my newspaper as a weapon... 547 00:57:30,140 --> 00:57:33,700 ...basically I'm a dirty blackmailer. 548 00:57:33,820 --> 00:57:36,300 So. when somebody threats me instead... 549 00:57:36,380 --> 00:57:38,300 ...that makes me even more curious. 550 00:57:40,540 --> 00:57:42,500 What is it that you want? 551 00:57:42,660 --> 00:57:45,100 Please don't think that I'm trying to threaten you... 552 00:57:45,180 --> 00:57:47,380 I just want to know what's going on. 553 00:57:49,380 --> 00:57:52,380 Leave me alone. 554 00:58:35,220 --> 00:58:39,100 Shu 555 00:58:39,101 --> 00:58:44,780 Shura (Netherworlds 556 00:58:44,781 --> 00:58:48,860 Shura Yuki (Netherworlds Snow 557 00:58:48,861 --> 00:58:54,900 Shura Yuki Hime (Netherworlds Snow Lady) 558 00:58:57,820 --> 00:59:05,580 By Ashio Ryurei 559 00:59:11,780 --> 00:59:13,820 It was the sixth year of Meiji, that long ago. 560 00:59:13,900 --> 00:59:17,740 A tragedy befell an innocent family... gruesome, horrific, and hellish. 561 00:59:17,820 --> 00:59:21,780 They were victims of a blood-chilling plot. 562 00:59:25,020 --> 00:59:29,900 Time has passed, but who will exact vengeance? 563 00:59:29,980 --> 00:59:33,140 Time has passed, but what dark deed remains unavenged? 564 00:59:33,220 --> 00:59:34,660 Whose tears fill the river of revenge? 565 00:59:34,740 --> 00:59:36,540 Whose sould is filled with turbulent Karma? 566 00:59:36,620 --> 00:59:38,980 Who kills without premeditation, without any thought for her own safety? 567 00:59:39,060 --> 00:59:40,660 Knowing neither forgiveness nor compassion... 568 00:59:40,740 --> 00:59:43,300 ...she traveled the land, seeking out her enemies... 569 00:59:43,380 --> 00:59:45,380 ...and left their corpses withou a second glance. 570 00:59:45,460 --> 00:59:49,460 Her name was Shurayuki... the child of vengeance. 571 00:59:56,660 --> 00:59:58,420 Certainly... 572 00:59:58,500 --> 01:00:04,820 The person who told Ashiro Ryurei about you... was indeed I! 573 01:00:04,980 --> 01:00:07,980 Why did you have to, sir?! 574 01:00:09,580 --> 01:00:13,300 I just cannot comprehend... why you did that, Reverend. 575 01:00:13,420 --> 01:00:15,820 Don't you see? 576 01:00:15,900 --> 01:00:18,820 It's bail, to lure out... 577 01:00:18,900 --> 01:00:20,980 ...the one villain that remains: Kitahama Okono. 578 01:00:23,180 --> 01:00:27,220 Matsuemon's men are not without their limits. 579 01:00:27,300 --> 01:00:32,380 However... should Ryurei's novel become widely read... 580 01:00:32,500 --> 01:00:35,900 ...I'm certain that Okono will read it. 581 01:00:35,980 --> 01:00:39,980 And, when she does... she will surely take action. 582 01:00:40,060 --> 01:00:45,060 That will be... the moment when you can at last destroy her. 583 01:00:47,220 --> 01:00:49,660 Besides, you see... 584 01:00:49,740 --> 01:00:55,220 ...I've come to really like... this Ryurei fellow. 585 01:00:55,300 --> 01:00:58,340 He's using his talents as a writer... 586 01:00:58,420 --> 01:01:04,780 ...to express his hostility and malice towards the political system. 587 01:01:04,900 --> 01:01:06,780 He may be a rogue, but I felt strongly that he's be... 588 01:01:06,860 --> 01:01:13,060 ...the ideal man to write your story, a tale of the netherworlds. 589 01:01:15,180 --> 01:01:19,500 But, will Kitahama Okono take action...? 590 01:01:19,580 --> 01:01:22,540 Will she reveal herself? 591 01:01:23,900 --> 01:01:28,580 You must wait and see... You must be patient. 592 01:01:28,660 --> 01:01:32,700 Yuki, you must not rush things. 593 01:01:32,780 --> 01:01:37,380 If you must endure a moment of peace and tranquility... 594 01:01:37,460 --> 01:01:41,100 ...when the winds of carnage do not blow the snow of the netherworlds... 595 01:01:41,180 --> 01:01:49,180 ...your Bhudda will not punish you. 596 01:01:43,380 --> 01:01:49,180 ...to Mount Kazusa... 597 01:01:49,260 --> 01:01:54,660 ...from Mount Kazusa, looking into the valley... 598 01:01:54,740 --> 01:02:00,060 ...a little child picks up a pebble... 599 01:02:00,940 --> 01:02:03,020 Born to settle and old score. 600 01:02:03,100 --> 01:02:05,740 Born to seek vengeance. 601 01:02:05,820 --> 01:02:10,300 Yet, listening to the children sing, she could not help but be moved. 602 01:02:10,380 --> 01:02:12,540 As she continued to travel her lonely path... 603 01:02:12,620 --> 01:02:15,380 ...the glimmers of the past became dimmer and dimmer. 604 01:02:31,580 --> 01:02:34,140 Just tell me, please... 605 01:02:34,220 --> 01:02:36,500 ...that this is merely fiction! 606 01:02:36,620 --> 01:02:38,740 That it's all made up, just to make it interesting reading! 607 01:02:38,900 --> 01:02:42,820 No... I've written nothing but the truth. 608 01:02:45,260 --> 01:02:49,740 You're not lying... 609 01:02:48,300 --> 01:02:49,740 It's all truth. 610 01:02:49,900 --> 01:02:54,660 Then... Oyuki... killed my dad... 611 01:02:54,780 --> 01:02:57,300 Just who are you? 612 01:02:57,420 --> 01:03:00,100 I'm... Banzo's... 613 01:03:00,180 --> 01:03:03,140 I'm Takemura Banzo's daughter. 614 01:03:06,020 --> 01:03:09,020 This is awful! Just awful! 615 01:03:19,740 --> 01:03:22,820 So now we have... another girl seeking vengeance. 616 01:03:27,660 --> 01:03:31,380 Born under unlucky stars, both of you... 617 01:03:31,460 --> 01:03:34,460 ...you... and her. 618 01:03:39,060 --> 01:03:41,220 Wait! 619 01:03:41,300 --> 01:03:44,100 Wait, why don't you?! 620 01:03:44,220 --> 01:03:47,740 There's no way... No way can you understand how I feel! 621 01:03:47,860 --> 01:03:50,700 I do! 622 01:03:50,820 --> 01:03:53,780 I can understand... 623 01:04:01,700 --> 01:04:04,660 Are you... Ashio Ryurei? 624 01:04:06,140 --> 01:04:09,460 Yeah, so what do you want from me? 625 01:04:09,580 --> 01:04:13,780 Because your "Lady Snowblood" story seems all-too real... 626 01:04:13,860 --> 01:04:18,540 ...the people have become confused and riotous. So, we must question you. 627 01:04:18,620 --> 01:04:20,980 Come with us to headquarters! 628 01:04:21,100 --> 01:04:24,500 You've got to be kidding me... 629 01:04:22,180 --> 01:04:24,500 Silence! Take him! 630 01:04:31,780 --> 01:04:35,060 Quiet! 631 01:04:35,140 --> 01:04:39,580 Hey! We don't got all day! 632 01:04:54,300 --> 01:04:57,300 Who is it? 633 01:04:58,460 --> 01:05:00,020 Who are you? 634 01:05:00,180 --> 01:05:02,380 Takemura Kobue. 635 01:05:02,500 --> 01:05:06,500 Kobue? Takemura? 636 01:05:09,620 --> 01:05:12,620 You must be Banzo's... 637 01:05:13,340 --> 01:05:15,900 Did you come here to see Yuki? 638 01:05:14,580 --> 01:05:18,300 I wouldn't ever want to see her! 639 01:05:16,060 --> 01:05:18,300 Then what brings you here? 640 01:05:18,420 --> 01:05:22,140 Ashio Ryurei got arrested by some cops. 641 01:05:22,220 --> 01:05:24,500 I didn't know that there was a police station there, though... 642 01:05:24,580 --> 01:05:26,420 ...inside a restaurant called "Kagetsu", that is... 643 01:05:26,580 --> 01:05:29,540 Wait! Wait a second! Wait, I said! 644 01:05:31,460 --> 01:05:34,420 Take that! 645 01:05:36,660 --> 01:05:40,060 You bastard! You fuckin' retard! 646 01:05:40,140 --> 01:05:43,140 Get up! 647 01:05:46,580 --> 01:05:49,540 Scum! 648 01:05:58,500 --> 01:06:01,500 There! 649 01:06:07,100 --> 01:06:09,860 C'mon! Out with it! 650 01:06:12,700 --> 01:06:15,660 Where's Shurayuki?! 651 01:06:29,420 --> 01:06:33,660 I spent a cosiderable amount of time reading the story in your paper. 652 01:06:33,740 --> 01:06:36,660 Clearly, it's based on a real event. 653 01:06:36,740 --> 01:06:39,740 There's no way someone who didn't know Shurayuki could've written it. 654 01:06:42,740 --> 01:06:47,740 Kitahama Okono... So you've revealed yourself, just as I expected. 655 01:06:48,700 --> 01:06:52,660 So, the money you pocketed from that ruthless murder twenty years ago... 656 01:06:52,780 --> 01:06:56,060 ...paid for this shady little hideout of yours, eh? 657 01:06:56,140 --> 01:06:57,300 That sure is nice to know. 658 01:06:57,460 --> 01:06:59,700 Silence! 659 01:07:00,660 --> 01:07:03,500 Tell me! Where's Shurayuki?! Tell me! 660 01:07:03,580 --> 01:07:05,820 Tell me! Tell me! 661 01:07:05,980 --> 01:07:08,620 I don't know! I'm not in touch with her! 662 01:07:08,780 --> 01:07:10,340 You stubborn fool! 663 01:07:10,420 --> 01:07:13,380 Don't hold back! Go ahead and beat this scumbag! 664 01:07:15,860 --> 01:07:18,820 Dumb ass! 665 01:07:22,300 --> 01:07:25,300 Suffer! Suffer a lot more! 666 01:07:27,900 --> 01:07:30,860 Suffer! 667 01:07:32,740 --> 01:07:35,620 There! 668 01:07:35,700 --> 01:07:38,540 That should be enough. Let's hold off for the time being. 669 01:07:38,700 --> 01:07:42,900 But... 670 01:07:39,980 --> 01:07:42,900 He's no good to us if he's dead. 671 01:07:43,460 --> 01:07:45,740 We'll use him as bait. 672 01:07:45,060 --> 01:07:45,740 Bait? 673 01:07:45,900 --> 01:07:49,860 Yes. Shurayuki will, without a doubt, soon show up. 674 01:08:44,860 --> 01:08:46,340 She's here! 675 01:10:17,180 --> 01:10:20,140 So you've come, Shurayuki! I've been waiting for you. 676 01:10:21,420 --> 01:10:25,340 Kitahama Okono... as last... at last we meet! 677 01:10:25,500 --> 01:10:28,380 That's right! I deliberately acted just as you hoped I would. 678 01:11:12,980 --> 01:11:15,260 Thunder-Sand Bomb! 679 01:11:14,580 --> 01:11:16,660 What?! Thunder-Sand?! 680 01:11:15,380 --> 01:11:18,420 Hold your breath! 681 01:11:16,740 --> 01:11:21,620 Hold your breath! 682 01:11:18,540 --> 01:11:21,620 Be careful! 683 01:11:21,700 --> 01:11:24,140 Shurayuki! 684 01:11:24,260 --> 01:11:27,300 Oyuki... 685 01:12:26,500 --> 01:12:29,460 Okono... 686 01:12:33,020 --> 01:12:35,980 Has she escaped?! 687 01:15:15,180 --> 01:15:17,020 It's all done now, Yuki... 688 01:15:17,100 --> 01:15:20,100 ...your vengeance... everything. 689 01:15:21,220 --> 01:15:21,460 Is it really over? Is it supposed to feel like this? 690 01:15:25,620 --> 01:15:27,260 It is over... 690 01:15:27,340 --> 01:15:30,580 It's all done now. Just forget it all. 691 01:15:30,660 --> 01:15:35,300 Can the netherworld's snow, soaked in bloody carnage, regain it's purity...? 692 01:15:35,340 --> 01:15:37,900 You were born inside a jail, a child of vengeance... 693 01:15:37,980 --> 01:15:40,980 How can you live like a normal human being, Yuki? 694 01:15:44,060 --> 01:15:47,180 I do remember... 695 01:15:47,260 --> 01:15:50,460 ...from the moment I was born... 696 01:15:50,540 --> 01:15:54,620 I remember everything I saw... 697 01:15:54,700 --> 01:15:58,900 I can still picture it before my eyes... 698 01:15:58,980 --> 01:16:01,100 That's why... 699 01:16:01,180 --> 01:16:04,820 ...my mother's vengeance is my own. 700 01:16:04,900 --> 01:16:08,900 This revenge... is mine. 701 01:16:16,820 --> 01:16:31,300 "Chapter Four:" 702 01:17:25,700 --> 01:17:30,500 Just as I thought... you are alive after all. 703 01:17:30,580 --> 01:17:33,540 I was hoping that I was only imagining things... 704 01:17:35,300 --> 01:17:38,660 Why... did you fake your deah? 705 01:17:38,820 --> 01:17:40,340 Who are you talking about? 706 01:17:40,420 --> 01:17:44,580 If you're talking about a wretch named Tsukamoto Gishiro, he's dead. 707 01:17:44,660 --> 01:17:46,220 He died when his ship foundered three years ago... 708 01:17:46,340 --> 01:17:49,420 That's not true! Gishiro is alive! He's right here! 709 01:17:49,540 --> 01:17:50,980 Right in front of my eyes! 710 01:17:53,860 --> 01:17:56,700 The boat that you were on... yes, it did sink... 711 01:17:56,780 --> 01:18:01,620 But... as the police were after you for opium smuggling... 712 01:18:01,700 --> 01:18:04,700 ...the shipwreck provided you with a wonderful opportunity... 713 01:18:04,780 --> 01:18:07,940 ...to fake your own death! 714 01:18:08,020 --> 01:18:11,980 You survived... and continue to engage in shady dealings. 715 01:18:14,660 --> 01:18:16,620 You haven't changed... 716 01:18:16,700 --> 01:18:20,620 You haven't changed at all since you ran away ten years ago. 717 01:18:23,500 --> 01:18:27,220 Why did you come here? 718 01:18:27,340 --> 01:18:30,140 To make you forget about things... 719 01:18:30,220 --> 01:18:34,380 ...about Tsukamoto Gishiro... and the man you saw... 720 01:18:34,460 --> 01:18:37,460 You must forget them all. 721 01:18:39,940 --> 01:18:42,820 Your Shurayukihime story is at an end. 722 01:18:42,900 --> 01:18:45,820 With Kitahama Okono's death, it's all over. 723 01:18:45,900 --> 01:18:48,180 There's no more to write about. 724 01:18:48,300 --> 01:18:50,980 Are you threatening me? It's so like you. 725 01:18:51,100 --> 01:18:54,100 No. Just giving advice. 726 01:18:55,460 --> 01:18:58,340 Let me tell you something... 727 01:18:58,420 --> 01:19:01,140 These days I'm mostly involved in the weapons trade. 728 01:19:01,220 --> 01:19:05,900 Even the government can't buy weapons without my involvement. 729 01:19:05,980 --> 01:19:09,780 I believe that Japan will soon be at war. 730 01:19:09,860 --> 01:19:12,420 Japan is streangthening its military forces and preparing them for the conflict... 731 01:19:12,500 --> 01:19:16,140 ...and I'm lending them a hand, helping to expand the Empire. 732 01:19:17,500 --> 01:19:23,300 I don't have time for some silly, twenty-year old tale vengeance. 733 01:19:23,340 --> 01:19:26,620 The place where I conduct most of my business is the Rokumeikan. 734 01:19:26,700 --> 01:19:31,220 It's supposed to be the place where we negotiate with foreign powers... 735 01:19:31,300 --> 01:19:36,260 ...and debate the use of Western ideas to modernize our society. 736 01:19:36,420 --> 01:19:38,580 But, what really goes on there are... 737 01:19:38,660 --> 01:19:41,740 ...nightly parties for the elite members of our society... 738 01:19:41,820 --> 01:19:46,140 ...who indulge themselves in self- gratification and hedonism. 739 01:19:46,220 --> 01:19:48,780 Despite this, society is changing. 740 01:19:48,860 --> 01:19:50,980 And I will float with the tide... 741 01:19:51,060 --> 01:19:54,060 ...all the time harvesting more money and power! 742 01:19:56,780 --> 01:20:00,820 It's fine to be concerned with justice and conscience, or upholding principles... 743 01:20:00,900 --> 01:20:05,620 ...yet, in the end, it's all nothing more than empty words, at least in this filthy hole. 744 01:20:05,700 --> 01:20:07,700 Forget newspapers and all that, why don't you? 745 01:20:08,060 --> 01:20:11,060 If you feel like it, you can come work for me. 746 01:20:13,580 --> 01:20:16,540 I cut my ties to you all those many years ago. 747 01:20:17,820 --> 01:20:22,020 Oh, well. But, let me say this... 748 01:20:22,100 --> 01:20:26,220 Don't continue to stick your nose in where it isn't welcome. Stay out! 749 01:20:26,300 --> 01:20:30,300 That's my final... advice, from the bottom of my heart. 750 01:21:26,380 --> 01:21:27,660 Ryu... 751 01:21:40,580 --> 01:21:42,820 Gishiro is alive... 752 01:21:42,300 --> 01:21:46,060 What? 753 01:21:42,940 --> 01:21:46,060 He was just here, before you came. 754 01:21:46,180 --> 01:21:49,380 Then... that man in the rickshaw... 755 01:21:47,700 --> 01:21:49,380 Wait! Please wait! 756 01:21:49,540 --> 01:21:51,940 He won't get away... I'll finish him, I swear it! 757 01:21:52,020 --> 01:21:53,140 And, listen, there's one more thing... 758 01:21:53,220 --> 01:21:56,500 ...there's one more thing I have to tell you. 759 01:21:56,580 --> 01:21:58,700 Gishiro is... 760 01:21:58,780 --> 01:22:01,660 ...Tsukamoto Gishiro is... 761 01:22:01,740 --> 01:22:03,700 ...my father. 762 01:22:09,500 --> 01:22:14,660 When I found out that one of the scum you were looking after was my own father... 763 01:22:14,740 --> 01:22:18,460 ...what kept me going was the fact that I thought he was dead. 764 01:22:18,540 --> 01:22:23,780 If it weren't for that, I couldn't have written your story of carnage. 765 01:22:23,860 --> 01:22:28,620 But... when Kitahama Okono was killed... 766 01:22:28,700 --> 01:22:31,860 ...at the moment, I realized who had actually killed her. 767 01:22:31,940 --> 01:22:33,940 That's why I couldn't tell you... 768 01:22:34,020 --> 01:22:37,020 There was no way that I could've told you. 769 01:22:47,940 --> 01:22:51,900 I won't be writing "Shurayukihime" anymore. 770 01:22:51,940 --> 01:22:55,180 There's no way that I can write it anymore. 771 01:22:55,260 --> 01:22:58,260 But... 772 01:23:25,740 --> 01:23:34,060 Chapter Four: The House of Joy, The Final Hell. 773 01:24:05,580 --> 01:24:10,940 "Charity Masquerade" 774 01:25:35,140 --> 01:25:37,860 May I have this dance? 773 01:25:35,900 --> 01:25:37,860 Oh! 774 01:25:43,340 --> 01:25:45,300 Oh! Oh, yes! 775 01:27:46,180 --> 01:27:48,020 Yuki! 776 01:28:19,820 --> 01:28:21,420 Wait! 777 01:29:06,460 --> 01:29:13,660 "Stay out! That's my final... advice, form the bottom of my heart." 778 01:29:19,100 --> 01:29:21,140 Damn it! 779 01:29:21,260 --> 01:29:23,980 This is so typical of him... 780 01:29:24,060 --> 01:29:29,100 It doesn't matter if someone dies... as long as his hands remain clean. 781 01:29:29,180 --> 01:29:33,180 No matter what happens, he'll have his way. 782 01:30:44,980 --> 01:30:46,100 Ryu! 783 01:31:02,780 --> 01:31:06,740 tsukamoto Gishiro... I'll kill you! 784 01:31:06,820 --> 01:31:12,100 For twenty years... all these twenty years... It's all I've thought about... 785 01:31:12,180 --> 01:31:15,380 It's all that mattered. 786 01:31:13,780 --> 01:31:18,300 That's about to end now. 787 01:31:15,540 --> 01:31:18,300 Yes. That's about to end now. 788 01:31:18,380 --> 01:31:21,740 Oyuki! Don't worry about me... 789 01:31:21,820 --> 01:31:24,820 Do it! Do it! 790 01:32:00,260 --> 01:32:02,620 Yuki! Hurry! 791 01:32:02,700 --> 01:32:04,780 Hurry! 792 01:32:10,700 --> 01:32:14,340 Yuki! 793 01:32:46,420 --> 01:32:49,420 An eye for an eye! 794 01:34:55,180 --> 01:35:07,540 Begrieving snow falls... in the dead morning... 795 01:35:07,620 --> 01:35:19,820 Stray dog's hownls... and the footsteps of Geta pierce the air... 796 01:35:19,900 --> 01:35:26,860 I walk with the weight of the Milky Way on my shoulders... 797 01:35:26,940 --> 01:35:37,900 ...but an umbrella that holds onto the darkness is all there is. 798 01:35:37,980 --> 01:35:44,140 I'm a woman who walks at the brink of life and death... 799 01:35:44,220 --> 01:35:52,580 ...who's emptied my tears many moons ago... 800 01:37:05,620 --> 01:37:11,380 THE END