1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:09,190 "When the Last Sword is Drawn." 2 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,840 The City of Tokyo, Winter, 1899. 3 00:00:49,900 --> 00:00:51,270 What are these? 4 00:00:51,610 --> 00:00:54,610 Here. Make sure you pack this. 5 00:00:54,740 --> 00:00:56,150 Yes, yes... 6 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:57,740 we'll never get done. 7 00:00:57,870 --> 00:00:59,740 Sure we will. 8 00:01:18,510 --> 00:01:19,590 Chiaki... 9 00:01:20,050 --> 00:01:22,390 pack first, then drink. 10 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:24,770 Yes, dear. 11 00:01:26,140 --> 00:01:29,440 We can't take half a bottle with us! 12 00:01:34,650 --> 00:01:39,650 "Ono Clinic." 13 00:01:42,530 --> 00:01:45,450 "This clinic is closed." 14 00:01:45,580 --> 00:01:50,290 "We are moving to a new location." 15 00:01:50,420 --> 00:01:53,920 "Chiaki Ono, M.D." 16 00:01:57,590 --> 00:01:58,970 Yes? 17 00:02:04,220 --> 00:02:06,310 Coming, coming! 18 00:02:10,310 --> 00:02:12,650 I realize it's late. 19 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,570 My grandson has a fever that won't go down. Would you mind? 20 00:02:17,820 --> 00:02:19,150 Come in. 21 00:02:19,860 --> 00:02:22,530 We're moving, so the place is a mess. 22 00:02:22,660 --> 00:02:25,330 Find an empty place and sit down. 23 00:02:25,450 --> 00:02:26,200 Minoru... 24 00:02:26,330 --> 00:02:28,000 There we go... 25 00:02:29,790 --> 00:02:32,330 We have got a patient! 26 00:02:32,580 --> 00:02:33,750 All right. 27 00:02:34,170 --> 00:02:37,130 My wife handles the children. 28 00:02:37,630 --> 00:02:39,260 Come in. 29 00:02:39,630 --> 00:02:42,180 There's not much room. You go in alone. 30 00:02:45,140 --> 00:02:48,350 I don't want a needle! 31 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,280 Minoru! Stop this nonsense! 32 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,490 There's nothing to be scared of. 33 00:03:01,610 --> 00:03:03,570 I'm sorry. 34 00:03:03,700 --> 00:03:07,700 It's all right. Just leave that there. 35 00:03:12,170 --> 00:03:14,420 You've got a fever. 36 00:03:16,170 --> 00:03:18,630 Don't be scared. 37 00:03:20,380 --> 00:03:21,920 This gentleman... 38 00:03:23,180 --> 00:03:24,300 Who? 39 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:28,760 Do you know him? 40 00:03:30,850 --> 00:03:31,980 No. 41 00:03:37,070 --> 00:03:41,190 How could I forget him? Kanichiro Yoshimura... 42 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:45,820 The man I hated most... 43 00:03:46,030 --> 00:03:50,660 and in those mad days when the Shogun fell, my comrade in... 44 00:03:50,790 --> 00:03:52,540 'the wolves of Mibu'. 45 00:03:54,540 --> 00:04:01,170 WHEN THE LAST SWORD lS DRAWN. 46 00:04:09,770 --> 00:04:14,560 The 'Newly Chosen Unit', or 'Shinsengumi', was formed in 1863. 47 00:04:14,900 --> 00:04:17,310 Quartered in Kyoto's Mibu area... 48 00:04:17,900 --> 00:04:22,320 this group of masterless samurai was charged with keeping the peace... 49 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,030 as the Shogun's power ebbed. 50 00:04:27,490 --> 00:04:31,330 I first saw Yoshimura among a group of recruits... 51 00:04:32,290 --> 00:04:36,790 selected by our Lieutenant, Toshizo Hijikata. 52 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,090 'Listed' swordsmen and above. 53 00:04:42,630 --> 00:04:45,760 First, Kanichiro Yoshimura. 54 00:04:46,340 --> 00:04:47,390 Sir! 55 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:55,520 From Morioka, Oshu Clan. North Star One-Sword School. Licensed. 56 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,400 He's in the same school as you, lto. 57 00:05:04,950 --> 00:05:06,950 Never seen him. 58 00:05:07,610 --> 00:05:09,120 Mr. Nagakura... 59 00:05:10,580 --> 00:05:14,040 How about trying one with a real sword? 60 00:05:14,290 --> 00:05:16,080 Okita! 61 00:05:16,620 --> 00:05:20,790 It's all right. They're not sharp. 62 00:05:29,390 --> 00:05:33,390 Your school doesn't train with real swords, does it.. 63 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,060 That's right, sir. 64 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,690 Go easy on me. 65 00:05:46,780 --> 00:05:50,030 He might miss. Wear a protector. 66 00:05:57,370 --> 00:06:00,880 I might miss, too. You should wear one as well. 67 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:02,710 I won't need it. 68 00:06:04,170 --> 00:06:05,300 Very well. 69 00:06:09,340 --> 00:06:14,260 Starring Kiichi Nakai. 70 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:19,600 Koichi Sato. 71 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:23,770 Yui Natsukawa Takehiro Murata. 72 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:27,780 Miki Nakatani Yuji Miyake. 73 00:06:27,900 --> 00:06:31,240 Story Jiro Asada. 74 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,660 Screenplay Takehiro Nakajima. 75 00:06:34,790 --> 00:06:38,080 Music Joe Hisaishi. 76 00:06:38,210 --> 00:06:42,790 Producers Hideshi Miyajima Nozomu Enoki. 77 00:06:43,130 --> 00:06:48,090 Directed by Yojiro Takita. 78 00:07:46,610 --> 00:07:50,650 He had killed. You could see that at a glance. 79 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:57,870 Enough! 80 00:08:03,210 --> 00:08:05,000 Not bad! 81 00:08:05,750 --> 00:08:08,540 My humble thanks. 82 00:08:09,380 --> 00:08:10,300 Yoshimura! 83 00:08:11,010 --> 00:08:12,010 Sir? 84 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,300 It takes a good man to fight Nagakura to a draw. 85 00:08:17,300 --> 00:08:21,680 You will work with him as an instructor in swordsmanship. 86 00:08:22,810 --> 00:08:24,020 All right, lto? 87 00:08:25,150 --> 00:08:26,020 Hijikata? 88 00:08:27,020 --> 00:08:30,400 Uh, you're making me... 89 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,940 an instructor... 90 00:08:34,740 --> 00:08:37,240 for the Shinsengumi? 91 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:45,080 Well, thank you very much! 92 00:08:51,670 --> 00:08:52,500 And now... 93 00:08:55,010 --> 00:08:58,720 I have an announcement to make. 94 00:09:00,850 --> 00:09:01,970 Tani... 95 00:09:02,890 --> 00:09:04,180 Masatake... 96 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:05,730 Come forward. 97 00:09:07,940 --> 00:09:09,480 Welcome. 98 00:09:10,110 --> 00:09:12,690 I'll take your sword. 99 00:09:15,490 --> 00:09:19,280 Sanjuro Tani's younger brother Masatake... 100 00:09:20,450 --> 00:09:23,950 will be adopted into my Kondo family. 101 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:27,750 He will henceforth be known as 'Shuhei'. 102 00:09:28,460 --> 00:09:30,000 I ask you all... 103 00:09:30,290 --> 00:09:33,050 to give him your support. 104 00:09:34,010 --> 00:09:36,550 I ask it, too. 105 00:09:38,470 --> 00:09:41,220 The Tennen Sword school now has an heir... 106 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:43,430 to its leader! 107 00:09:55,860 --> 00:09:56,940 What are you doing?! 108 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:57,990 Move. 109 00:09:58,110 --> 00:09:58,990 What?! 110 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:00,910 Mr. Saito... 111 00:10:02,620 --> 00:10:05,240 you could have just asked. 112 00:10:18,590 --> 00:10:22,300 I will now entertain! 113 00:10:22,850 --> 00:10:26,310 I have a special treat for you. 114 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,580 Kondo wasn't a bad man, but he was a snob. 115 00:10:48,540 --> 00:10:53,500 His taste for distinguished families and promotion of glib fools.. 116 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,840 Led to his adopting this younger brother... 117 00:10:57,670 --> 00:11:03,970 passing over Okita, the natural choice to succeed him. 118 00:11:05,470 --> 00:11:09,140 Saito-sensei... have a drink. 119 00:11:13,190 --> 00:11:16,730 My name is Kanichiro Yoshimura. 120 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:22,200 I am a new man. Just so you will know who I am... 121 00:11:28,870 --> 00:11:33,080 What land are you from, Saito-sensei? 122 00:11:34,750 --> 00:11:35,670 'Land'? 123 00:11:36,540 --> 00:11:37,040 Yes. 124 00:11:40,010 --> 00:11:43,760 I was born in Morioka, in Nanbu, Oshu. 125 00:11:44,010 --> 00:11:46,680 It's a beautiful place. 126 00:11:47,470 --> 00:11:48,680 Please... 127 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:57,310 Away to the south is Mt Hayachine... 128 00:11:57,730 --> 00:11:59,900 with Mt Nansho and Mt Azumane to the west. 129 00:12:00,110 --> 00:12:03,240 In the north are Mt lwate and Mt Himekami. 130 00:12:03,700 --> 00:12:08,410 Out of the high mountains flows the Nakatsu River... 131 00:12:08,540 --> 00:12:11,540 through the castle town into the Kitakami below Sakuranobaba. 132 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:16,250 Ah, it's as pretty as a picture! 133 00:12:16,380 --> 00:12:19,340 There's nowhere like it in all of Japan! 134 00:12:19,550 --> 00:12:23,170 Oh, please... allow me. 135 00:12:25,970 --> 00:12:31,270 Last night I dreamed about my little girl. 136 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:36,650 She's the image of her mother, who was the prettiest girl in town. 137 00:12:38,610 --> 00:12:44,700 It's just been so long since I saw her... 138 00:12:45,410 --> 00:12:51,080 An awful country samurai, bragging about home and family. 139 00:12:52,250 --> 00:12:56,500 When I left home... 140 00:12:58,750 --> 00:13:01,250 she was only five. 141 00:13:04,380 --> 00:13:06,300 Even then... 142 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:12,310 she was such a sweet little thing it took your breath away. 143 00:13:22,150 --> 00:13:26,860 It had been a month then since I had killed a man. 144 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:33,580 My son Kaichiro... 145 00:13:33,790 --> 00:13:37,540 is a fine swordsman and scholar. 146 00:13:37,670 --> 00:13:42,090 I don't just say that because I'm his father. 147 00:13:42,670 --> 00:13:44,500 He'll be a fine samurai. 148 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,550 I had decided I would kill this man. 149 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:51,300 Please... 150 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:58,020 Could you walk me back to my lodging? 151 00:13:58,690 --> 00:13:59,810 Sorry? 152 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:08,070 I'm drunk, and it's not safe to go staggering down the street alone. 153 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:11,110 Of course. 154 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:32,390 This should do. 155 00:14:33,350 --> 00:14:35,310 Here? 156 00:14:50,150 --> 00:14:54,280 A joke can go too far, sir. I ask you the reason for this. 157 00:14:54,410 --> 00:14:56,290 There is no reason. 158 00:15:03,540 --> 00:15:05,170 You'd kill for no reason? 159 00:15:05,300 --> 00:15:06,920 I don't like you. 160 00:15:07,050 --> 00:15:08,550 You're crazy! 161 00:15:16,350 --> 00:15:18,470 Die! 162 00:15:22,020 --> 00:15:27,110 I can't allow that to happen. I won't die. 163 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:57,600 I'm not serious. I just wanted to test you. 164 00:16:00,930 --> 00:16:05,900 I ask that this be the last time you test me. 165 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,820 You don't want to die? What kind of samurai is that? 166 00:16:14,450 --> 00:16:19,830 No one really wants to die. Are you any different? 167 00:16:20,370 --> 00:16:24,370 I don't care. I'm only alive because no one will kill me. 168 00:16:25,460 --> 00:16:30,420 I'm different. I kill because I don't want to die. 169 00:16:38,550 --> 00:16:44,100 For violating the rules of our troop, Takito Seyama has been ordered... 170 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,230 to commit hara-kiri. 171 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:52,190 When he has cut himself open, you new men will remove his head. 172 00:16:53,070 --> 00:16:54,860 What is his crime? 173 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,860 That doesn't concern you. 174 00:16:59,530 --> 00:17:01,280 Do not fail. 175 00:17:03,660 --> 00:17:05,790 I will obey. 176 00:17:26,310 --> 00:17:27,230 Hurry it up. 177 00:17:40,620 --> 00:17:43,870 No! Please! Stop! 178 00:18:03,510 --> 00:18:05,430 I'm truly sorry. 179 00:18:07,350 --> 00:18:09,350 Forgive me. 180 00:18:15,530 --> 00:18:16,530 Payment. 181 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:19,320 Go have fun in Shimabara. 182 00:18:23,700 --> 00:18:25,540 Don't you want it? 183 00:18:26,790 --> 00:18:28,790 I can't accept this! 184 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:32,380 I see. 185 00:18:37,550 --> 00:18:39,380 Hijikata-sensei... 186 00:18:40,260 --> 00:18:44,760 as you're aware, the circumstances... 187 00:18:45,390 --> 00:18:48,350 made the task quite difficult. 188 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:53,060 It caused a chip in the blade of my sword. 189 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:58,990 Could I perhaps ask for the cost of a new sword? 190 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,960 That should do. Your blade doesn't bear its maker's name. 191 00:19:48,290 --> 00:19:50,950 You are too kind. 192 00:20:00,210 --> 00:20:02,010 My most humble thanks! 193 00:20:09,970 --> 00:20:13,310 What kind of a samurai is that? 194 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,020 He's really something! 195 00:20:26,780 --> 00:20:28,700 Where's it chipped? 196 00:20:31,830 --> 00:20:36,040 My sword is as worn down as I am. 197 00:20:38,210 --> 00:20:42,840 The Shinsengumi was the sterile flower of the Shoguns' end. 198 00:20:43,510 --> 00:20:48,760 And here was this miser squirreling away all he could. 199 00:20:58,110 --> 00:21:01,650 We're checking to make sure it's nothing contagious. 200 00:21:01,780 --> 00:21:04,400 It"ll take a bit more time. 201 00:21:05,530 --> 00:21:06,910 I'm sorry. 202 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,620 I've come at a bad time. 203 00:21:13,450 --> 00:21:15,620 Would you like a drink? 204 00:21:17,460 --> 00:21:21,090 A lot of our patients pay their bills with alcohol. 205 00:21:21,210 --> 00:21:25,510 We're moving tomorrow, and we have all that left... 206 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,800 Oh... 207 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,970 I don't know what to say... 208 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:38,560 I heard you'd accept alcohol for your fee... 209 00:21:41,860 --> 00:21:47,150 if you gave me money, I'd just buy liquor with it. 210 00:21:49,820 --> 00:21:51,660 You're too kind. 211 00:21:54,330 --> 00:21:57,750 Anyway, have a drink. 212 00:21:58,290 --> 00:22:00,960 You're too kind. 213 00:22:07,470 --> 00:22:10,050 Your father? 214 00:22:11,180 --> 00:22:12,180 Hm? 215 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:14,810 Oh... 216 00:22:16,270 --> 00:22:17,020 No. 217 00:22:28,610 --> 00:22:33,160 That gentleman was my sensei. 218 00:22:34,490 --> 00:22:39,040 Morioka is 140 leagues from Edo... 219 00:22:39,460 --> 00:22:43,920 at the end of the Oshu road, and not blessed like the west country. 220 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:49,590 To stand up for your own land against the children of those rich ones... 221 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,300 is no easy thing. 222 00:22:54,310 --> 00:23:00,140 The Morioka cherry blossom splits through rock to bloom. 223 00:23:02,350 --> 00:23:06,980 The Morioka magnolia blooms even facing north. 224 00:23:11,070 --> 00:23:15,780 So I don't want you to wait until spring comes... 225 00:23:15,990 --> 00:23:18,200 and it's nice and warm. 226 00:23:20,790 --> 00:23:22,080 Split that rock. 227 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,710 Run ahead of the times. 228 00:23:29,630 --> 00:23:34,010 Go wild. Bloom. 229 00:23:34,550 --> 00:23:38,010 Yoshimura-sensei was a low-ranked samurai... 230 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,310 known for his learning and swordsmanship. 231 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,270 Our clan made him sensei at our school. 232 00:23:52,530 --> 00:23:54,530 Squire Chiaki! 233 00:23:55,870 --> 00:23:58,870 Your body is wide open. Keep your arms down! 234 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,040 Good, Kaichiro! 235 00:24:06,340 --> 00:24:09,750 His son Kaichiro was like him... Strong... 236 00:24:11,220 --> 00:24:12,880 and gentle. 237 00:24:13,590 --> 00:24:15,260 Are you all right? 238 00:24:15,930 --> 00:24:18,890 'Let's go to the peach tree. ' 239 00:24:19,010 --> 00:24:19,890 Mitsu... 240 00:24:21,140 --> 00:24:22,770 Shizu... I'm back. 241 00:24:26,310 --> 00:24:27,900 Welcome home. 242 00:24:29,780 --> 00:24:33,320 Hello, Squire Ono. 243 00:24:35,740 --> 00:24:37,660 Come in. 244 00:24:38,370 --> 00:24:39,410 Go on. 245 00:24:40,950 --> 00:24:42,080 Mitsu... 246 00:24:47,630 --> 00:24:53,300 Yoshimura-sensei had to struggle to keep up appearances. 247 00:24:53,470 --> 00:24:57,720 It was all he could do to keep his family fed. 248 00:24:58,300 --> 00:25:01,680 But to my eyes at least... 249 00:25:02,430 --> 00:25:05,810 they seemed happy. 250 00:25:07,770 --> 00:25:11,820 But then, to everyone's surprise, he left the clan... 251 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,400 leaving his family behind. 252 00:25:16,990 --> 00:25:21,530 In those days leaving one's clan was practically treason. 253 00:25:21,910 --> 00:25:26,330 But what really shocked me was that a man... 254 00:25:26,500 --> 00:25:30,960 who preached the virtues of Nanbu samurai... 255 00:25:31,170 --> 00:25:33,710 and was so proud of the beauty of his land... 256 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,670 would abandon it. 257 00:25:39,010 --> 00:25:42,720 Your old man's a traitor! 258 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,060 A disgrace! 259 00:25:50,060 --> 00:25:51,860 He should die! 260 00:25:53,150 --> 00:25:57,240 A real samurai apologizes by spilling his guts! 261 00:25:57,650 --> 00:25:59,320 Hara-kiri! 262 00:25:59,450 --> 00:26:00,410 Stop! 263 00:26:09,290 --> 00:26:10,290 I will speak. 264 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:17,720 Yoshimura-sensei served my father, Jiroemon Ono. 265 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,640 The sin of an underling is the sin of his master. 266 00:26:25,470 --> 00:26:30,480 If Kaichiro has to kill himself, so do I. 267 00:26:31,650 --> 00:26:33,310 Is that your wish? 268 00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:36,900 Come on. 269 00:26:43,870 --> 00:26:45,330 Are you all right? 270 00:26:46,500 --> 00:26:51,500 I'm sorry you had to do that for me, Squire Chiaki. 271 00:26:54,670 --> 00:26:59,300 I couldn't stand to see Kaichiro lose heart that way. 272 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:05,100 Starting with Kaichiro, the rest of the family... 273 00:27:05,220 --> 00:27:11,390 were driven from the clan's domain to seek refuge with relatives. 274 00:27:14,860 --> 00:27:17,900 Wind chimes! 275 00:27:19,030 --> 00:27:22,070 Wind chimes for sale! 276 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:24,700 Well done. 277 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,700 Kanichiro Yoshimura! 278 00:27:29,540 --> 00:27:30,120 Sir! 279 00:27:30,370 --> 00:27:32,290 2 ryo, 3 bu, 3 sh... 280 00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:43,800 Well done. 281 00:27:44,390 --> 00:27:46,220 My humble thanks. 282 00:27:54,690 --> 00:27:57,020 Next! 283 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,570 Tatsunosuke Nishimura! 284 00:27:59,690 --> 00:28:00,820 Thank you! 285 00:28:04,410 --> 00:28:06,240 2 ryo, 1 bu, 2 sh... 286 00:28:29,810 --> 00:28:30,850 Hello! 287 00:28:32,270 --> 00:28:33,680 Hello again! 288 00:28:34,350 --> 00:28:37,230 Could you send this, please? 289 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,230 Certainly. 290 00:28:43,490 --> 00:28:46,780 Mr. Yoshimura... here's a letter for you. 291 00:28:46,910 --> 00:28:49,530 My humble thanks! 292 00:28:49,740 --> 00:28:52,700 I'll write you a receipt. 293 00:29:02,550 --> 00:29:05,090 Dear Father... 294 00:29:06,140 --> 00:29:09,800 'l have read your letter... 295 00:29:10,220 --> 00:29:14,430 and it is wonderful to hear that you are well. 296 00:29:16,730 --> 00:29:20,690 Mother and Mitsu are in good health... 297 00:29:20,820 --> 00:29:25,780 and Keijiro is learning both to speak and to make mischief. 298 00:29:26,490 --> 00:29:30,030 I am helping in the fields... 299 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,620 and continuing to practice with my sword. 300 00:29:34,250 --> 00:29:40,330 Mitsu sometimes calls out "Papa" in her sleep. 301 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:49,550 I would like to come to Kyoto and serve with you as a samurai. 302 00:29:51,970 --> 00:29:58,060 I will take care of our family, so please do not be uneasy. ' 303 00:29:58,190 --> 00:29:58,690 Alms! 304 00:30:05,990 --> 00:30:10,070 Please, sir! Alms for the poor! 305 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:19,750 For several years Morioka had suffered a harsh famine. 306 00:30:21,210 --> 00:30:24,800 Just as I was getting worried about Kaichiro... 307 00:30:25,130 --> 00:30:29,010 who should I run into after some time but the man himself. 308 00:30:43,650 --> 00:30:48,860 Dear Shizu, Kaichiro, Mitsu and Keijiro... 309 00:30:50,530 --> 00:30:52,660 Are you well?' 310 00:30:53,410 --> 00:30:54,530 Kaichiro! 311 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,420 I'm sorry... 312 00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:07,260 Squire Chiaki! 313 00:31:08,970 --> 00:31:13,260 Please! You don't have to bow to me! 314 00:31:14,220 --> 00:31:15,600 We're friends! 315 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,180 Forgive me! 316 00:31:18,890 --> 00:31:22,140 Kaichiro! 317 00:31:28,820 --> 00:31:30,280 I see... 318 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,620 That's how Kanichiro's supporting his family? 319 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:39,540 Why was Yoshimura-sensei driven from the clan? 320 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,540 Surely you could have done something, Father. 321 00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:49,880 I cannot act out of personal feeling. 322 00:31:50,220 --> 00:31:53,720 A man who leaves his clan does not merit our concern. 323 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,510 We suffered a serious loss of face. 324 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:10,030 So the rumor he joined the Shinsengumi... 325 00:32:10,740 --> 00:32:12,450 is true. 326 00:32:14,740 --> 00:32:19,700 My father and Yoshimura-sensei were born in the same barracks. 327 00:32:20,250 --> 00:32:23,410 His father was a minor Samurai of Foot. 328 00:32:24,460 --> 00:32:30,420 My father lived there with his mother. 329 00:32:31,210 --> 00:32:35,300 But suddenly a gap opened up in their relative status. 330 00:32:47,650 --> 00:32:50,860 The Ono family's son became sick and died. 331 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,650 My father, the son of old Ono's concubine, was adopted as heir... 332 00:32:56,910 --> 00:33:00,240 to a 400-koku stipend. 333 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:05,960 It is with deepest gratitude I enter the House of Ono. 334 00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:09,540 Though I am of humble birth... 335 00:33:09,670 --> 00:33:11,960 As a concubine's son... 336 00:33:12,630 --> 00:33:17,010 he was in no position to go against the head of the family. 337 00:33:17,470 --> 00:33:23,100 He probably struggled to learn to suppress all of his own feelings. 338 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,560 Despite, or perhaps because of, their change in status... 339 00:33:29,020 --> 00:33:35,950 the only one he could talk to was Yoshimura-sensei. 340 00:33:36,530 --> 00:33:37,950 However... 341 00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:39,740 Leave the clan?! 342 00:33:40,830 --> 00:33:41,990 Yes. 343 00:33:43,750 --> 00:33:49,290 I hear of great changes taking place. I cannot resist my nation's call... 344 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:56,010 to revere the emperor, expel the barbarians, and defend the Shogun. 345 00:33:56,510 --> 00:34:02,510 Do you really expect me to believe that? 346 00:34:04,220 --> 00:34:10,060 I know it's hard on a tiny stipend when the crops keep failing. 347 00:34:10,900 --> 00:34:12,860 But Kanichiro... 348 00:34:13,820 --> 00:34:16,860 don't do something stupid like leaving the clan. 349 00:34:19,820 --> 00:34:23,910 What will I do without you? 350 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:29,750 My resolve will not be shaken. 351 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,080 Why, Kanichiro? 352 00:34:33,170 --> 00:34:36,960 Haven't we been friends all our lives? 353 00:34:46,310 --> 00:34:47,430 Please... 354 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:50,850 I'm truly sorry. 355 00:34:53,770 --> 00:34:59,320 Fool! Leaving your clan is a crime! I won't stand for it! 356 00:35:02,780 --> 00:35:07,580 So said my father. It was only later I found out... 357 00:35:07,700 --> 00:35:10,910 he had secretly given Yoshimura-sensei a letter of credit... 358 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:12,670 for his journey. 359 00:35:24,010 --> 00:35:25,760 Why... 360 00:35:27,810 --> 00:35:31,190 do you have that photograph? 361 00:35:34,230 --> 00:35:37,230 If it's not your father... 362 00:35:41,150 --> 00:35:46,910 That gentleman was a friend of my father... 363 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:52,040 or to be more precise, the father of my friend. 364 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,340 He would be about your age. 365 00:35:59,970 --> 00:36:04,180 Would you have ever heard of the Shinsengumi? 366 00:36:05,390 --> 00:36:07,050 Well... 367 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:15,650 They were very powerful, weren't they. 368 00:36:18,190 --> 00:36:23,200 They were no use in the new era. 369 00:36:29,910 --> 00:36:32,830 Grandpa! I'm going home. 370 00:36:33,670 --> 00:36:36,830 Be a good boy and do as the doctor says! 371 00:36:37,460 --> 00:36:41,170 If you don't do as she says, you won't get better. 372 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,640 Are you getting things cleaned up? 373 00:36:49,350 --> 00:36:50,600 I was just starting. 374 00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:53,480 What will I do with you! 375 00:36:58,860 --> 00:36:59,440 Now. 376 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,580 We are the Shinsengumi! We have business here! 377 00:39:25,130 --> 00:39:26,460 Die! 378 00:39:40,940 --> 00:39:42,100 One of your men. 379 00:39:42,230 --> 00:39:44,400 What? Who? 380 00:39:49,860 --> 00:39:51,280 He died instantly. 381 00:39:52,110 --> 00:39:56,120 Sanjuro Tani? Who killed him? 382 00:39:56,530 --> 00:39:58,330 I don't know. 383 00:39:59,330 --> 00:40:03,540 He was found this morning in front of Gion Shrine. 384 00:40:05,420 --> 00:40:06,670 Tani? 385 00:40:07,210 --> 00:40:10,710 He'd been getting above himself. 386 00:40:11,380 --> 00:40:14,090 The other men didn't like it. 387 00:40:17,970 --> 00:40:22,230 You're saying one of us did it? 388 00:40:22,390 --> 00:40:24,520 We're investigating. 389 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:47,750 Murderer! 390 00:40:50,170 --> 00:40:51,340 Stop it! 391 00:40:51,630 --> 00:40:52,760 You did this! 392 00:40:54,470 --> 00:40:57,760 I will not allow serving the Shogun to be called murder. 393 00:40:57,930 --> 00:40:59,350 What?! 394 00:41:00,470 --> 00:41:01,970 Shuhei! 395 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:14,110 Saito-sensei... there's something I'd like to ask you. 396 00:41:14,740 --> 00:41:16,070 Would you mind? 397 00:41:20,620 --> 00:41:25,080 A brilliantly executed cut to the chest. 398 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,250 The cut begins on the left. 399 00:41:30,170 --> 00:41:31,960 And one more thing. 400 00:41:38,850 --> 00:41:42,260 One stab from left of the spine to the heart. 401 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:47,730 Mr. Shinohara deduces there were two culprits. 402 00:41:47,850 --> 00:41:49,400 A two-man job... 403 00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:55,190 No. I believe the assailant acted alone. 404 00:41:56,490 --> 00:41:59,950 After the body cut, but before he fell... 405 00:42:00,070 --> 00:42:02,700 he was finished off with a stab. 406 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,960 A deft swordsman, then. 407 00:42:07,460 --> 00:42:13,170 I've always heard that left-handed men were quite deft. 408 00:42:14,420 --> 00:42:19,890 To stab, one turns the sword on its side... 409 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,010 like this. 410 00:42:25,810 --> 00:42:27,640 From the right... 411 00:42:32,230 --> 00:42:33,770 the wound doesn't match. 412 00:42:36,110 --> 00:42:37,440 But... 413 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,070 from the left hand... 414 00:42:50,630 --> 00:42:53,500 Even so... 415 00:42:54,550 --> 00:42:57,590 it was most skillfully done. 416 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,630 Simply brilliant. 417 00:43:03,890 --> 00:43:06,180 But our rules... 418 00:43:08,060 --> 00:43:10,980 strictly forbid private vendettas... 419 00:43:13,900 --> 00:43:15,690 Saito-sensei. 420 00:43:19,150 --> 00:43:23,490 And have you mentioned these conclusions to anyone? 421 00:43:24,580 --> 00:43:25,700 No. 422 00:43:33,290 --> 00:43:37,750 Do you draw against me, sir? 423 00:43:40,590 --> 00:43:45,600 The Shinsengumi, this death-seeking rabble... 424 00:43:46,430 --> 00:43:49,520 suits me somehow. 425 00:43:50,810 --> 00:43:52,730 Keep out of my way. 426 00:43:54,020 --> 00:43:56,230 Well, then... 427 00:44:00,490 --> 00:44:04,990 will you give me some money... 428 00:44:06,580 --> 00:44:09,790 to keep my mouth closed? 429 00:44:21,170 --> 00:44:23,130 Why do you walk on that side? 430 00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:28,560 I'm afraid of your left arm, Saito-sensei. 431 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,310 I won't draw on you. 432 00:44:34,900 --> 00:44:36,350 Does this... 433 00:44:38,150 --> 00:44:40,320 mean us? 434 00:44:41,780 --> 00:44:43,360 Are we... 435 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:47,780 'the wolves of Mibu'? 436 00:44:56,580 --> 00:44:58,380 My humble thanks. 437 00:45:01,510 --> 00:45:04,300 I don't want your thanks. 438 00:45:23,030 --> 00:45:24,740 Welcome. 439 00:45:27,410 --> 00:45:29,200 I'm sorry to disturb you. 440 00:45:34,370 --> 00:45:36,710 Not much to look at, huh? 441 00:45:56,390 --> 00:45:58,060 Please. 442 00:45:58,770 --> 00:46:01,610 Well! Thank you. 443 00:46:02,230 --> 00:46:08,360 I don't like beautiful women. Women called 'beautiful' disgust me. 444 00:46:09,030 --> 00:46:13,030 After all, none of us is more than a sack of shit. 445 00:46:40,270 --> 00:46:42,560 They be so pretty! 446 00:46:56,370 --> 00:46:57,830 I'm truly sorry! 447 00:46:58,870 --> 00:47:03,380 Your accent makes me think you're from Oshu... 448 00:47:12,140 --> 00:47:16,930 I worked all over the north. 449 00:47:19,020 --> 00:47:23,980 Then I was sold to a brothel in Shimabara, here in Kyoto. 450 00:47:25,190 --> 00:47:28,530 I see... 451 00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:30,780 I didn't know that. 452 00:47:32,950 --> 00:47:35,910 'The boss' here doesn't like people talking too much. 453 00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:42,080 You can't talk too much about your home town. 454 00:48:17,740 --> 00:48:20,160 She's beautiful! 455 00:48:49,570 --> 00:48:52,940 I'm getting married... to a girl from near here. 456 00:48:54,490 --> 00:48:56,910 You are? 457 00:48:58,490 --> 00:49:00,080 Who is it? 458 00:49:01,410 --> 00:49:05,910 Shizu, the girl at the summer festival we were looking at. 459 00:49:09,170 --> 00:49:10,420 Shizu? 460 00:49:12,170 --> 00:49:14,470 I fell in love at first sight. 461 00:49:17,010 --> 00:49:19,050 You did, eh? 462 00:49:23,390 --> 00:49:25,140 I see... 463 00:49:25,390 --> 00:49:26,140 Fool! 464 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:28,980 Do you mock me?! 465 00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,320 A farmer's daughter?! 466 00:49:31,650 --> 00:49:33,530 If a samurai family adopted her... 467 00:49:33,650 --> 00:49:35,990 Make her a concubine, if you like. 468 00:49:36,650 --> 00:49:41,990 You can keep her until you make a proper marriage. 469 00:49:42,330 --> 00:49:44,370 That we will permit. 470 00:49:49,670 --> 00:49:52,210 Please stop! 471 00:49:55,800 --> 00:50:00,140 What is it, Miss? Do you need to relieve yourself? 472 00:50:20,990 --> 00:50:22,080 Hey! 473 00:50:25,330 --> 00:50:28,000 You stay here! 474 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:30,880 Hey! 475 00:50:49,650 --> 00:50:51,150 Kanichiro! 476 00:50:53,190 --> 00:50:54,520 Shizu! 477 00:51:03,490 --> 00:51:04,740 What are you doing here? 478 00:51:07,710 --> 00:51:11,880 This is where I want to be! 479 00:51:13,380 --> 00:51:18,970 I want to marry you! 480 00:51:20,510 --> 00:51:21,890 Shizu! 481 00:51:23,850 --> 00:51:25,310 Kanichiro! 482 00:51:26,100 --> 00:51:27,600 Shizu... 483 00:51:32,310 --> 00:51:35,690 Give the girl back, please. 484 00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:39,940 Shizu... 485 00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,240 will be my wife! 486 00:51:44,740 --> 00:51:47,200 Jiroemon won't have her! Go tell him that, Sasuke! 487 00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:50,460 You can't do that! 488 00:51:52,630 --> 00:51:54,040 From this day on... 489 00:51:55,630 --> 00:51:57,500 you are my wife. 490 00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:04,260 I won't let anyone lay a finger on you! 491 00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:10,100 Shizu! 492 00:52:10,980 --> 00:52:12,310 Kanichiro! 493 00:52:17,570 --> 00:52:22,110 I have received unofficial notification from Edo. 494 00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:28,280 We of the Shinsengumi are to be made direct retainers of the Shogun himself! 495 00:52:33,670 --> 00:52:36,130 We must look to our task. 496 00:52:37,380 --> 00:52:40,340 We must preserve the authority of the Shogun... 497 00:52:41,130 --> 00:52:42,880 and his Tokugawa family! 498 00:52:52,310 --> 00:52:53,890 Kondo-sensei... 499 00:52:55,100 --> 00:52:59,730 You say that we are to be made hatamoto? 500 00:52:59,860 --> 00:53:01,110 Is this true? 501 00:53:02,190 --> 00:53:02,820 Yes. 502 00:53:03,990 --> 00:53:08,320 Yoshimura... does this displease you? 503 00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:10,450 No! 504 00:53:11,660 --> 00:53:12,870 No. 505 00:53:13,330 --> 00:53:14,960 Not at all. 506 00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:22,960 Um... may I ask a foolish question? 507 00:53:25,050 --> 00:53:28,720 Will we receive payment appropriate to this honor? 508 00:53:29,970 --> 00:53:30,890 Payment?! 509 00:53:38,860 --> 00:53:44,570 'All personnel to rank as "inspector".' You will earn 40 bags of rice. 510 00:53:45,740 --> 00:53:47,200 Forty?! 511 00:53:47,410 --> 00:53:49,570 Yes. Forty. 512 00:53:54,500 --> 00:53:56,500 Thank you! 513 00:53:58,830 --> 00:54:03,710 Kondo-sensei, thank you from the bottom of my heart! 514 00:54:04,260 --> 00:54:07,380 Ito-sensei, Hijikata-sensei... 515 00:54:07,510 --> 00:54:09,890 thank you very much! 516 00:54:11,430 --> 00:54:15,930 Everybody... l thank you... 517 00:54:16,270 --> 00:54:17,680 with all my heart! 518 00:54:18,100 --> 00:54:21,230 My humble thanks, too, Yoshimura-sensei! 519 00:54:28,530 --> 00:54:29,570 Saito-sensei... 520 00:54:33,450 --> 00:54:35,330 my humble thanks! 521 00:54:57,810 --> 00:55:02,940 The gentleman in the middle... don't move. Stay still. 522 00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:04,770 Hold your breath! 523 00:55:05,900 --> 00:55:08,990 One, two, three... 524 00:55:09,240 --> 00:55:13,120 four, five, six, seven... 525 00:55:13,620 --> 00:55:16,330 eight, nine, ten. 526 00:55:16,620 --> 00:55:19,660 Well done. That's it. 527 00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,580 Who's next for a photograph? 528 00:55:23,380 --> 00:55:24,380 Yoshimura! 529 00:55:25,500 --> 00:55:26,000 Yes? 530 00:55:26,260 --> 00:55:29,470 Have a picture taken. They'll love it back home. 531 00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,800 No, no, thank you. 532 00:55:34,850 --> 00:55:37,930 Don't worry. We'll pay for it. 533 00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:43,020 Well, if you say so... 534 00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:47,980 what, only me? 535 00:55:48,110 --> 00:55:50,190 Gentlemen! 536 00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:51,400 Just you. 537 00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:54,070 Kondo-sensei! Saito-sensei! 538 00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:55,070 Like this. 539 00:55:55,490 --> 00:55:58,240 Stand still. Just bear with it. 540 00:55:58,370 --> 00:55:59,660 Don't move! 541 00:56:00,710 --> 00:56:02,170 Hold your breath. 542 00:56:03,460 --> 00:56:06,590 One, two, three... 543 00:56:22,730 --> 00:56:26,150 where are you moving to? 544 00:56:26,980 --> 00:56:28,610 Manchuria. 545 00:56:28,860 --> 00:56:32,900 China? That's a long way away. 546 00:56:33,030 --> 00:56:34,160 Yes. 547 00:56:50,590 --> 00:56:55,380 By this time the Shinsengumi had split into two factions. 548 00:56:55,890 --> 00:57:01,270 So had Japan, as the Shogun's forces fought the southwestern clans... 549 00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,020 who wished the Emperor to rule. 550 00:57:04,730 --> 00:57:07,980 This was a tide the Shinsengumi could not resist. 551 00:57:08,110 --> 00:57:09,230 Yoshimura! 552 00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:10,400 Yes? 553 00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:15,280 Could I ask for some of your time tonight? It's important. 554 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,120 Certainly. 555 00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:26,540 This is fine. Leave us. 556 00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:37,050 Our task is to guard the Court. Our loyalty lays with the Emperor. 557 00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:45,270 Under Squire Kondo we are no more than the Tokugawa Shogun's dogs. 558 00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:53,150 In this time of upheaval in the land, I cannot but think that is a mistake. 559 00:57:54,900 --> 00:57:59,280 We thus take leave of the Shinsengumi. 560 00:58:00,620 --> 00:58:02,740 I wasn't surprised. 561 00:58:03,660 --> 00:58:07,830 A fox thinks for itself, while a dog simply follows. 562 00:58:08,130 --> 00:58:11,500 We want you with us! 563 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:14,800 We need your swords! 564 00:58:15,590 --> 00:58:18,890 We'll be appointed imperial Guards. 565 00:58:19,430 --> 00:58:23,970 We promise you twice what you get as Shogun's hatamoto. 566 00:58:25,270 --> 00:58:29,060 We're not asking you to decide now. 567 00:58:33,530 --> 00:58:39,700 By leaving my clan, I have already failed one lord. 568 00:58:39,820 --> 00:58:44,040 I will not betray the trust of another. 569 00:58:44,330 --> 00:58:47,160 Yoshimura... Mr. Saito... 570 00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:52,000 as I see it, the Tokugawa Shogunate is dead. 571 00:58:52,460 --> 00:58:56,960 Others have left... Katsura, from Choshu, and Sakamoto, from Tosa... 572 00:58:57,170 --> 00:58:58,260 No! 573 00:59:01,140 --> 00:59:02,930 I cannot. 574 00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,930 Yoshimura! Think of the future! 575 00:59:08,350 --> 00:59:14,020 I was surprised, too, that money would not sway Yoshimura. 576 00:59:14,780 --> 00:59:16,820 You're not fit to be samurai! 577 00:59:16,940 --> 00:59:18,530 You have an obligation! 578 00:59:18,650 --> 00:59:19,990 You're a disgrace! 579 00:59:20,110 --> 00:59:21,320 Mr. Shinohara! 580 00:59:22,370 --> 00:59:24,160 Get out of Kyoto! 581 00:59:25,700 --> 00:59:28,790 I decided to go with lto... 582 00:59:30,750 --> 00:59:35,130 but as an informer for Kondo and Hljikata. 583 00:59:36,210 --> 00:59:41,470 Squire Okubo, we must remove those who are disloyal... 584 00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:43,220 to the Emperor. 585 00:59:44,220 --> 00:59:49,850 Indeed. Those who can't see where the times are headed... 586 00:59:50,770 --> 00:59:52,770 ...are in our way. 587 00:59:55,020 --> 00:59:59,740 Without Kondo and Hijikata, the Shinsengumi will collapse. 588 01:00:01,150 --> 01:00:05,490 That is easy to say, Mr. lto. 589 01:00:07,410 --> 01:00:08,790 Unless... 590 01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:12,460 Mr. Saito helps. 591 01:00:23,090 --> 01:00:25,970 They were counting on me. 592 01:00:26,470 --> 01:00:30,140 Ito was a fox. So was Okubo, of Satsuma, in the southwest. 593 01:00:30,770 --> 01:00:34,400 They knew a wolf when they saw one. 594 01:00:34,980 --> 01:00:38,570 I wear a family crest... 595 01:00:38,690 --> 01:00:42,320 Mother often speaks in jest... 596 01:00:42,530 --> 01:00:45,740 And Father da-dum da-dum... 597 01:00:45,990 --> 01:00:49,540 Elder Sister makes eyes at the guest... 598 01:00:49,700 --> 01:00:53,620 and Little Sister... 599 01:00:53,750 --> 01:00:57,540 is being a pest. ' 600 01:01:13,190 --> 01:01:14,520 Be careful. 601 01:01:20,150 --> 01:01:21,570 Hey 'Boss'... 602 01:01:42,710 --> 01:01:48,390 it was Yoshimura's job to pass my messages to Hijikata. 603 01:01:48,890 --> 01:01:50,680 That was ironic. 604 01:01:51,810 --> 01:01:56,940 I'm sorry a woman has to do such dangerous work. 605 01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:03,690 It doesn't frighten me at all. I'm happy to do it. 606 01:02:08,530 --> 01:02:14,040 Have some of these dumplings. I love them. 607 01:02:14,500 --> 01:02:15,960 Well! So do I! 608 01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:18,170 That's good. 609 01:02:18,380 --> 01:02:20,000 Thank you. 610 01:02:22,130 --> 01:02:27,090 Just the thought that a woman like me can help... 611 01:02:27,260 --> 01:02:31,470 makes me feel strong inside. 612 01:02:39,100 --> 01:02:43,480 When we first met in Shimabara he came back the next day... 613 01:02:43,610 --> 01:02:47,740 and bought out my contract from the brothel. 614 01:02:50,070 --> 01:02:55,410 I'm proud when he says I'm not much to look at. 615 01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:05,630 My family all starved in the famine. 616 01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:10,430 He's the only one who's ever stood by me. 617 01:03:12,430 --> 01:03:15,060 He took pity on me. 618 01:03:16,730 --> 01:03:18,390 He did, eh? 619 01:03:20,060 --> 01:03:21,060 Have some. 620 01:03:21,190 --> 01:03:23,560 I'm fine, thanks. 621 01:03:26,150 --> 01:03:28,780 I passed on lto's plot... 622 01:03:29,490 --> 01:03:35,120 to kill Kondo, and even Ryoma Sakamoto, who was against using force... 623 01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:37,200 to topple the Shogun. 624 01:03:43,380 --> 01:03:44,840 Very interesting. 625 01:03:50,970 --> 01:03:52,430 Kill lto. 626 01:04:05,150 --> 01:04:11,110 Of course I couldn't kill Kondo, so I killed their other target. 627 01:04:14,780 --> 01:04:17,280 Welcome home. 628 01:04:21,750 --> 01:04:26,130 Keep away from the Shinsengumi. Don't see Yoshimura again. 629 01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,010 I've got to hide out. 630 01:04:30,510 --> 01:04:32,630 You get out of here, too. 631 01:04:37,850 --> 01:04:40,890 Why do I have to go? 632 01:04:42,890 --> 01:04:48,020 I've taken a big chance. I'll be lucky to come out alive. 633 01:04:48,940 --> 01:04:53,030 If you're with me, they'll come after you, too. 634 01:04:53,820 --> 01:04:55,070 This... 635 01:04:56,370 --> 01:04:58,080 is a farewell gift. 636 01:04:59,660 --> 01:05:02,410 I don't care. I'm staying. 637 01:05:02,540 --> 01:05:04,540 I don't want you getting killed! 638 01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:09,340 Goodbye. 639 01:05:12,510 --> 01:05:16,720 I don't want this. 640 01:05:19,930 --> 01:05:21,350 Think of yourself! 641 01:05:27,770 --> 01:05:33,110 I understand perfectly what you're saying. 642 01:05:35,490 --> 01:05:39,450 But I do not need anything from you. 643 01:05:42,790 --> 01:05:44,250 Instead... 644 01:05:45,750 --> 01:05:47,460 tonight... 645 01:05:49,250 --> 01:05:51,090 make love to me. 646 01:06:03,850 --> 01:06:05,140 Hold me... 647 01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:08,310 please. 648 01:06:53,020 --> 01:06:54,070 What happened? 649 01:06:54,190 --> 01:06:55,980 Ryoma Sakamoto's been killed! 650 01:06:56,110 --> 01:06:57,190 What? 651 01:06:57,990 --> 01:07:02,320 I wasn't excited about who had assassinated Ryoma. 652 01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:07,120 I knew who had, better than anyone. 653 01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:32,270 Hello? 654 01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:34,690 Miss Nui? 655 01:07:37,690 --> 01:07:39,950 May I come in? 656 01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:47,660 Miss Nui? 657 01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:01,590 Miss... 658 01:08:11,270 --> 01:08:12,600 Miss Nui! 659 01:08:29,910 --> 01:08:37,910 Shizu! 660 01:08:58,940 --> 01:09:03,610 A samurai's wife can't kill herself so there's one less mouth to feed! 661 01:09:03,950 --> 01:09:05,490 Let me go! 662 01:09:06,740 --> 01:09:08,030 Shizu! 663 01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:10,160 Let me die! 664 01:09:10,910 --> 01:09:12,160 Shizu! 665 01:09:13,620 --> 01:09:16,170 Shizu! You can't! 666 01:09:17,460 --> 01:09:19,380 You can't do this! 667 01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:21,960 All right... 668 01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:26,640 let me die and use me for food! 669 01:09:28,970 --> 01:09:30,390 I can't... 670 01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:34,850 go on bringing you trouble! 671 01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:46,910 Shizu! 672 01:09:48,830 --> 01:09:51,660 Father! 673 01:09:52,620 --> 01:09:55,330 Don't be angry at Mother! 674 01:09:56,000 --> 01:10:01,170 I'm not hungry! I don't need to eat! 675 01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:09,340 I won't... 676 01:10:11,430 --> 01:10:14,140 let this happen to you again. 677 01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:18,850 I owe my loyalty to you. 678 01:10:22,610 --> 01:10:24,530 No one else. 679 01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:32,530 As a teacher of children... 680 01:10:34,450 --> 01:10:37,290 and a fencing instructor... 681 01:10:38,420 --> 01:10:44,920 it is impossible for me to go begging for money here in Morioka. 682 01:10:47,050 --> 01:10:50,550 But I know full well... 683 01:10:53,010 --> 01:10:57,810 that without money none of you will live through the winter. 684 01:11:11,620 --> 01:11:12,910 Kaichiro... 685 01:11:15,330 --> 01:11:16,580 Mitsu... 686 01:11:18,910 --> 01:11:20,290 Though I might... 687 01:11:27,260 --> 01:11:30,050 abandon my clan to earn my living... 688 01:11:32,350 --> 01:11:36,970 I will never abandon you. 689 01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:54,320 Shizu... 690 01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:59,830 look after the new baby when it comes. 691 01:12:04,750 --> 01:12:05,250 Kanichiro... 692 01:12:05,290 --> 01:12:06,460 No! 693 01:12:08,210 --> 01:12:11,220 It has to seem like I left without telling you. 694 01:12:12,300 --> 01:12:14,590 We can't have words of farewell! 695 01:12:22,940 --> 01:12:24,020 So... 696 01:12:25,730 --> 01:12:27,110 I'm going. 697 01:12:27,820 --> 01:12:28,570 Kanichiro! 698 01:12:43,710 --> 01:12:45,830 Father! Father! 699 01:12:52,010 --> 01:12:53,340 Father... 700 01:12:55,180 --> 01:12:58,640 Go home! You must not see me off! 701 01:13:00,430 --> 01:13:02,180 I won't. 702 01:13:03,140 --> 01:13:07,610 Only just... hold Mitsu one last time. 703 01:13:08,980 --> 01:13:12,820 She doesn't deserve to have the father she loves... 704 01:13:13,360 --> 01:13:14,910 go without a word. 705 01:13:24,420 --> 01:13:32,420 Papa... 706 01:14:12,710 --> 01:14:13,260 Mitsu... 707 01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:20,140 Papa... 708 01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:23,010 Mitsu... 709 01:14:38,990 --> 01:14:42,450 Father, please don't cry. 710 01:14:45,660 --> 01:14:50,130 I only wish your departure were a happier one. 711 01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:30,870 Squire Saito returns! 712 01:15:31,830 --> 01:15:32,790 Saito-sensei? 713 01:15:32,920 --> 01:15:33,590 Why? 714 01:15:33,710 --> 01:15:34,750 I don't know. 715 01:15:39,470 --> 01:15:40,840 Squire Saito! 716 01:15:41,430 --> 01:15:42,590 Stand aside! 717 01:15:44,220 --> 01:15:49,600 I was tired of hiding out. I went back to the Shinsengumi... 718 01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:55,730 though I knew perfectly well how bedraggled it had become. 719 01:15:56,150 --> 01:15:59,280 That was all the more reason for me to return. 720 01:16:07,910 --> 01:16:13,080 My sympathies for the unpleasant task that fell to you. 721 01:16:13,460 --> 01:16:15,630 I don't need your sympathy. 722 01:16:16,090 --> 01:16:17,210 Move. 723 01:16:22,550 --> 01:16:23,470 Saito-sensei... 724 01:16:31,980 --> 01:16:33,440 Miss Nui... 725 01:16:35,770 --> 01:16:37,400 What about her? 726 01:16:41,150 --> 01:16:43,200 She killed herself. 727 01:16:59,130 --> 01:17:00,420 I see. 728 01:17:01,970 --> 01:17:07,930 I took the liberty of arranging a funeral at Koenji Temple. 729 01:17:10,640 --> 01:17:12,390 Mind your own business. 730 01:17:15,900 --> 01:17:20,480 Right then only he knew... 731 01:17:21,190 --> 01:17:23,110 my innermost thoughts. 732 01:18:59,170 --> 01:19:00,790 You're going to kill me? 733 01:19:02,460 --> 01:19:06,090 A country samurai who doesn't care what happens? 734 01:19:07,760 --> 01:19:10,590 Doesn't anything matter as long as you get paid? 735 01:19:11,890 --> 01:19:13,760 Money-grubber! 736 01:19:16,140 --> 01:19:17,680 Mercenary! 737 01:19:19,190 --> 01:19:21,270 How much are they paying you to kill me?! 738 01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:51,630 I am truly sorry. 739 01:20:50,570 --> 01:20:52,070 It was all... 740 01:20:53,030 --> 01:20:55,160 downhill from there. 741 01:20:56,200 --> 01:21:00,450 The Shogun resigned, and political power returned to the Emperor. 742 01:21:00,580 --> 01:21:02,370 The Lord of Aizu, Commissioner of Kyoto... 743 01:21:03,460 --> 01:21:08,500 was relieved of his post, leaving us with nothing to guard. 744 01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:12,010 Okita was dying of tuberculosis... 745 01:21:12,260 --> 01:21:17,600 and Shinohara, of the lto faction, had shot Kondo. 746 01:21:18,970 --> 01:21:24,770 As if seeking its last stand, the Shinsengumi joined in the fight... 747 01:21:25,150 --> 01:21:28,150 against the southwestern clans. 748 01:21:29,070 --> 01:21:33,440 Fighting was all we could do. 749 01:21:35,700 --> 01:21:36,860 Squire Ono... 750 01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:51,460 Straighten your backs! Stick out your chests! 751 01:21:52,090 --> 01:21:54,720 We are the warriors of Mibu! 752 01:22:04,940 --> 01:22:06,600 Shinsengumi! 753 01:22:13,820 --> 01:22:15,280 Good on you! 754 01:22:17,990 --> 01:22:19,320 Shinsengumi! 755 01:22:20,160 --> 01:22:22,370 Are you properly dressed? 756 01:22:23,580 --> 01:22:27,290 If your clothing isn't good and tight, you will die! 757 01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:33,840 Even if you fall, do not drop your sword! 758 01:22:34,630 --> 01:22:36,630 Keep swinging it! 759 01:22:38,090 --> 01:22:43,100 If you are out of breath, grab your opponent. 760 01:22:44,770 --> 01:22:48,690 Use any means you can... 761 01:22:50,020 --> 01:22:51,860 and come back alive. 762 01:22:59,410 --> 01:23:00,370 They're coming! 763 01:23:00,490 --> 01:23:03,240 The Shinsengumi's here! 764 01:23:05,700 --> 01:23:07,080 Charge! 765 01:23:08,540 --> 01:23:09,670 Fire! 766 01:23:14,130 --> 01:23:15,550 Forward! 767 01:23:18,090 --> 01:23:19,260 Fire! 768 01:23:26,810 --> 01:23:32,520 It was ludicrous. Swords against guns, a foregone conclusion. 769 01:23:33,440 --> 01:23:36,280 The day of the sword... 770 01:23:36,860 --> 01:23:39,700 was already far in the past. 771 01:23:41,780 --> 01:23:45,740 Nanbu Clan godown, Osaka. 772 01:23:47,080 --> 01:23:48,370 Reporting! 773 01:23:50,540 --> 01:23:55,960 The Shogun's forces are retreating. The southwestern army... 774 01:23:56,090 --> 01:23:57,880 is in pursuit. 775 01:23:59,130 --> 01:24:01,260 They're winning? 776 01:24:01,550 --> 01:24:02,680 Yes, sir. 777 01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:06,600 The Shinsengumi's no help? 778 01:24:08,100 --> 01:24:09,230 'Shinsengumi'? 779 01:24:12,100 --> 01:24:13,230 Nothing. 780 01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:22,110 We fled with the Shogun's troops. 781 01:24:22,700 --> 01:24:24,700 The other clans deserted us. 782 01:24:25,240 --> 01:24:31,710 On the edge of annihilation, we played our final card. 783 01:24:33,420 --> 01:24:34,960 You all right? 784 01:24:36,710 --> 01:24:38,590 Have some food. 785 01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:43,340 Go on, eat. 786 01:24:48,470 --> 01:24:50,640 Eat slowly! 787 01:24:53,020 --> 01:24:54,600 Saito-sensei... 788 01:25:00,320 --> 01:25:05,410 I got the Aizu people to share their supplies with us. 789 01:25:07,580 --> 01:25:08,620 Please... 790 01:25:25,800 --> 01:25:28,100 Have you eaten? 791 01:25:29,010 --> 01:25:30,430 Uh... 792 01:25:31,310 --> 01:25:32,480 no. 793 01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:36,690 Was that the last? 794 01:25:40,860 --> 01:25:45,650 Why didn't you say?! You let me eat the last one! 795 01:25:46,570 --> 01:25:49,780 I'm used to being hungry. 796 01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:53,620 This'll do me fine. 797 01:25:57,420 --> 01:25:58,790 You bastard! 798 01:25:59,920 --> 01:26:03,340 I hate your guts! 799 01:26:04,010 --> 01:26:07,260 Why should one shit-sack care if another is full?! 800 01:26:07,590 --> 01:26:11,260 In a world where men hate enough to kill each other... 801 01:26:11,680 --> 01:26:15,060 why are you trying to fill my stomach?! 802 01:26:15,190 --> 01:26:17,310 Saito-sensei! 803 01:26:17,440 --> 01:26:19,860 I can't breathe! 804 01:26:29,700 --> 01:26:33,040 Yoshimura... get out of here. 805 01:26:36,210 --> 01:26:38,250 We're going to die here... 806 01:26:39,380 --> 01:26:42,040 whether we like it or not. 807 01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:47,970 But I don't want you to. 808 01:26:49,260 --> 01:26:51,720 Not a man like you. 809 01:26:59,860 --> 01:27:00,940 Mr. Saito... 810 01:27:10,910 --> 01:27:12,280 I am... 811 01:27:13,950 --> 01:27:16,500 a Nanbu samurai. 812 01:27:28,050 --> 01:27:30,220 A Nanbu samurai... 813 01:27:31,850 --> 01:27:36,310 lets neither wife nor child sway him from his duty. 814 01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:43,810 When Nanbu fights, I will be there first. 815 01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:53,780 I'm truly grateful for the consideration you have shown me... 816 01:27:55,910 --> 01:28:01,580 but I will never turn my back on my duty. 817 01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:04,210 Yoshimura! 818 01:28:12,140 --> 01:28:13,590 Saito-sensei... 819 01:28:16,600 --> 01:28:18,430 my humble thanks. 820 01:28:23,150 --> 01:28:26,150 He was a true samurai. 821 01:29:04,980 --> 01:29:06,690 The enemy! 822 01:29:12,860 --> 01:29:14,320 We are under attack! 823 01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:55,860 Hold your fire! 824 01:30:01,330 --> 01:30:03,910 Stop shooting! 825 01:30:04,540 --> 01:30:05,410 Swords!! 826 01:30:43,950 --> 01:30:45,910 Fight or die! 827 01:30:59,180 --> 01:31:01,970 Cut them down! 828 01:31:13,860 --> 01:31:14,820 Retreat! 829 01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:17,320 Retreat! Retreat! 830 01:31:22,700 --> 01:31:25,450 Forward! 831 01:32:20,180 --> 01:32:22,510 The Emperor's standard! 832 01:32:24,350 --> 01:32:29,520 We are the imperial Army! Withdraw your soldiers! 833 01:32:30,230 --> 01:32:34,860 There will be no mercy for rebels! 834 01:32:35,570 --> 01:32:38,230 Are we rebels now?! 835 01:32:41,400 --> 01:32:43,490 Withdraw! 836 01:32:43,870 --> 01:32:46,830 Withdraw! Don't resist! 837 01:32:47,370 --> 01:32:49,370 Don't resist! Withdraw! 838 01:32:49,500 --> 01:32:52,370 Hijikata-sensei! Are we rebels? 839 01:32:54,210 --> 01:32:55,290 Hey! 840 01:32:55,420 --> 01:32:56,420 Stand your ground! 841 01:32:56,540 --> 01:32:58,710 Stay here, I said! 842 01:33:18,440 --> 01:33:22,440 I am Kanichiro Yoshimura of the Shinsengumi! 843 01:33:22,900 --> 01:33:25,660 I serve the Tokugawa Shogun! 844 01:33:26,530 --> 01:33:31,250 I do not wish to raise my arm against His Majesty the Emperor... 845 01:33:32,250 --> 01:33:36,670 but my duty bids me fight! 846 01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:39,670 I stand against you! 847 01:33:49,260 --> 01:33:50,260 Yoshimura! 848 01:33:55,690 --> 01:33:57,150 Don't die! 849 01:34:03,490 --> 01:34:04,170 Yoshimura! 850 01:34:11,660 --> 01:34:14,750 Don't die. Yoshimura! 851 01:34:16,460 --> 01:34:17,140 Yoshimura! 852 01:34:25,930 --> 01:34:27,380 Yoshimura... 853 01:34:39,190 --> 01:34:43,610 So you knew Yoshimura-sensei... 854 01:34:55,370 --> 01:35:01,460 I assume he died at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi... 855 01:35:05,220 --> 01:35:06,010 No. 856 01:35:08,510 --> 01:35:11,050 What, is he alive?! 857 01:35:18,230 --> 01:35:19,850 After that battle... 858 01:35:20,270 --> 01:35:24,860 the war went in favor of the southwestern clans. 859 01:35:25,820 --> 01:35:30,200 My father, Jiroemon Ono... 860 01:35:30,570 --> 01:35:34,160 had been sent to Osaka... 861 01:35:34,410 --> 01:35:40,580 as godown manager, to steer the clan through the crisis. 862 01:35:40,710 --> 01:35:41,710 Leave to speak! 863 01:35:42,380 --> 01:35:44,550 His Lordship the Shogun... 864 01:35:44,670 --> 01:35:49,930 has fled Osaka Castle, left his army and taken ship for Edo. 865 01:35:50,590 --> 01:35:54,890 We know who's going to win now. The way forward is clear! 866 01:35:55,270 --> 01:35:58,600 We can eitherjoin the Emperor and his southwestern clans... 867 01:35:58,730 --> 01:36:01,100 or be destroyed with the Tokugawas! 868 01:36:01,230 --> 01:36:02,400 I agree! 869 01:36:02,650 --> 01:36:04,480 Calm down... 870 01:36:04,940 --> 01:36:08,280 or the lower castes will get excited as well. 871 01:36:09,400 --> 01:36:14,280 It is important that we remain absolutely neutral. 872 01:36:14,740 --> 01:36:16,660 We must not take sides. 873 01:36:17,120 --> 01:36:20,960 All we need do is dress normally and strengthen our gate. 874 01:36:22,170 --> 01:36:24,880 We aid no fleeing soldiers... 875 01:36:25,420 --> 01:36:29,630 and we say nothing about the war's outcome. 876 01:36:31,340 --> 01:36:32,590 Understood? 877 01:36:34,600 --> 01:36:40,980 Yoshimura-sensei picked that time to appear before my father. 878 01:36:54,950 --> 01:36:56,120 Kanichiro?! 879 01:36:58,080 --> 01:36:59,790 Yoshimura's here?! 880 01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:05,790 He's in front of the gate, badly wounded. 881 01:37:06,710 --> 01:37:08,050 Yoshimura! 882 01:37:10,130 --> 01:37:12,170 What should we do? 883 01:37:14,930 --> 01:37:18,140 All right, bring him into the back garden. 884 01:37:18,680 --> 01:37:20,060 Yes, sir! 885 01:37:32,990 --> 01:37:35,530 Why did he have to come now?! 886 01:37:36,570 --> 01:37:37,820 Why?! 887 01:37:53,300 --> 01:37:57,180 You bloody fool! You should be ashamed. 888 01:37:58,260 --> 01:37:59,810 Yoshimura! 889 01:38:15,610 --> 01:38:17,860 Squire Jiroemon... 890 01:38:30,960 --> 01:38:33,760 While our battle has ended... 891 01:38:35,470 --> 01:38:38,590 in total defeat... 892 01:38:40,390 --> 01:38:44,060 to die here at the hands of some villain... 893 01:38:46,230 --> 01:38:49,440 would be a wasted death. 894 01:38:51,190 --> 01:38:58,650 If I may, I would like to be of service to my own land. 895 01:39:00,070 --> 01:39:03,040 I would like to return there. 896 01:39:03,910 --> 01:39:05,790 Now? 897 01:39:06,790 --> 01:39:09,080 A true Nanbu samurai... 898 01:39:09,540 --> 01:39:14,460 would go back to the Shinsengumi and die there like a man. 899 01:39:20,890 --> 01:39:22,260 I beg you! 900 01:39:22,560 --> 01:39:24,100 Yoshimura... 901 01:39:25,480 --> 01:39:27,890 after what you've done... 902 01:39:29,440 --> 01:39:34,150 I couldn't possibly ask the clan to take you back! 903 01:39:35,440 --> 01:39:36,690 At least... 904 01:39:38,240 --> 01:39:41,530 until my wounds heal. 905 01:39:43,700 --> 01:39:45,700 For the sake... 906 01:39:47,040 --> 01:39:50,460 of all our years of friendship. 907 01:39:50,580 --> 01:39:54,040 To all the men of all the clans! 908 01:39:54,590 --> 01:39:57,130 Report all rebel soldiers... 909 01:39:57,470 --> 01:39:59,970 to the imperial Army! 910 01:40:00,720 --> 01:40:02,470 Conceal them... 911 01:40:02,890 --> 01:40:05,560 and your clan will be suppressed! 912 01:40:06,520 --> 01:40:08,640 I say again... 913 01:40:09,850 --> 01:40:12,650 Report all rebel soldiers... 914 01:40:12,980 --> 01:40:15,650 to the imperial Army! 915 01:40:16,690 --> 01:40:21,320 Conceal them and your clan will be suppressed! 916 01:40:22,990 --> 01:40:24,370 Yoshimura... 917 01:40:26,540 --> 01:40:28,290 you're a disgrace. 918 01:40:31,290 --> 01:40:33,170 We will leave you alone. 919 01:40:37,170 --> 01:40:38,000 Kill yourself. 920 01:40:53,150 --> 01:40:55,980 This is not an entertainment! 921 01:40:56,360 --> 01:40:57,650 Begone! 922 01:41:13,460 --> 01:41:17,920 I am sorry, Sasuke. 923 01:42:05,720 --> 01:42:06,930 Kanichiro... 924 01:42:08,600 --> 01:42:11,890 why did you fight at Toba-Fushimi? 925 01:42:13,060 --> 01:42:17,940 Why didn't you join the Shogun at Osaka Castle? 926 01:42:19,150 --> 01:42:22,980 Together, you might have had a chance. 927 01:42:25,030 --> 01:42:30,280 The way you are now, how could you escape anywhere? 928 01:42:32,950 --> 01:42:34,450 It was... 929 01:42:36,960 --> 01:42:40,790 out of duty I fought. 930 01:42:45,840 --> 01:42:48,590 We lost, it's true... 931 01:42:50,010 --> 01:42:52,640 but I'm not dead yet. 932 01:42:54,680 --> 01:42:57,060 While I'm still alive... 933 01:42:58,980 --> 01:43:02,440 I want to go back to Morioka. 934 01:43:04,650 --> 01:43:07,150 I want to see Shizu... 935 01:43:09,620 --> 01:43:11,240 and my children. 936 01:43:14,660 --> 01:43:18,830 Nanbu is my land. 937 01:43:19,580 --> 01:43:24,000 I can't put you on the scales against all of Nanbu. 938 01:43:25,210 --> 01:43:27,420 If it were only me, I would die for you. 939 01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:33,810 But I can't make Nanbu the enemy of His Majesty just for you. 940 01:43:36,310 --> 01:43:40,600 That sword of yours won't cut any more. 941 01:43:41,940 --> 01:43:43,900 I'll give you mine. 942 01:43:47,530 --> 01:43:50,740 It's made by Yamato no Kami Yasusada. 943 01:43:58,960 --> 01:44:03,460 Use it to cut open your stomach like a samurai should. 944 01:44:38,500 --> 01:44:42,290 Please help him! Father! 945 01:45:16,330 --> 01:45:17,490 Sir? 946 01:45:21,330 --> 01:45:25,330 A hungry man can't meet death properly. 947 01:45:25,750 --> 01:45:27,340 I'll give him some food. 948 01:45:28,460 --> 01:45:31,800 I didn't realize. I'm sorry. 949 01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:34,130 I'll do it. 950 01:45:35,640 --> 01:45:41,140 I didn't think about it until just now. 951 01:45:42,770 --> 01:45:46,190 Take him some hot water as well. 952 01:45:55,950 --> 01:45:57,660 Is it snowing... 953 01:45:59,660 --> 01:46:02,370 in Nanbu now. Too? 954 01:46:04,290 --> 01:46:06,920 Powder snow... 955 01:46:10,340 --> 01:46:13,010 Oh, dear... 956 01:46:15,340 --> 01:46:17,760 Now what? 957 01:46:39,870 --> 01:46:41,120 Here. 958 01:47:11,940 --> 01:47:13,690 This rice... 959 01:47:17,740 --> 01:47:20,700 comes from Nanbu... 960 01:47:25,500 --> 01:47:31,250 Nanbu rice... 961 01:47:35,090 --> 01:47:36,760 it's so good... 962 01:47:38,550 --> 01:47:44,720 So good I drool to think of it. 963 01:47:47,230 --> 01:47:48,390 Enjoy it. 964 01:47:51,270 --> 01:47:54,980 Take your time and enjoy it. 965 01:48:06,290 --> 01:48:08,120 Thank you. 966 01:49:22,030 --> 01:49:23,450 First... 967 01:49:26,740 --> 01:49:28,660 one ryo. 968 01:49:30,700 --> 01:49:33,040 A kimono sash for Shizu. 969 01:49:34,920 --> 01:49:38,250 This one ryo... 970 01:49:40,970 --> 01:49:44,090 is for Mitsu's Doll-Festival stand. 971 01:49:45,300 --> 01:49:50,890 This one is for Keijiro's baby robe. 972 01:49:55,560 --> 01:49:58,610 Well, what do you know? 973 01:50:01,110 --> 01:50:08,240 Here I wanted to buy Kaichiro a sword... 974 01:50:09,200 --> 01:50:11,910 but I don't have the money. 975 01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:16,500 Kaichiro... 976 01:50:19,960 --> 01:50:23,800 nothing could make you cry, could it. 977 01:50:25,930 --> 01:50:27,390 I didn't... 978 01:50:28,680 --> 01:50:32,270 deserve a son like you. 979 01:50:42,860 --> 01:50:45,950 Kaichiro and Mitsu... 980 01:50:48,070 --> 01:50:51,910 and Keijiro, who I've never seen... 981 01:50:58,920 --> 01:51:00,790 I want to... 982 01:51:03,170 --> 01:51:04,960 hold you. 983 01:51:13,890 --> 01:51:17,390 Shizu... 984 01:51:19,900 --> 01:51:25,610 what are you doing right now? 985 01:51:30,700 --> 01:51:35,160 Can you hear the words my heart speaks... 986 01:51:38,670 --> 01:51:41,330 that I never could say? 987 01:51:45,840 --> 01:51:47,340 I fell... 988 01:51:49,840 --> 01:51:52,600 completely in love with you. 989 01:51:57,100 --> 01:51:58,520 I tried... 990 01:51:59,730 --> 01:52:04,110 as hard as I could. 991 01:52:06,740 --> 01:52:11,280 I did all I could. 992 01:52:15,540 --> 01:52:17,040 You... 993 01:52:20,040 --> 01:52:23,040 don't mind, do you? 994 01:52:26,380 --> 01:52:27,760 Shizu? 995 01:52:31,390 --> 01:52:33,890 It's all right if I... 996 01:52:36,720 --> 01:52:38,350 kill myself? 997 01:52:44,440 --> 01:52:46,570 Forgive me. 998 01:52:49,780 --> 01:52:52,740 Let's go to the peach tree. 999 01:52:52,870 --> 01:52:56,740 If there are any peaches, we'll pick them. 1000 01:52:56,910 --> 01:53:00,080 Five for Uncle... ' 1001 01:53:04,130 --> 01:53:12,130 I can hear Mitsu singing... such a sweet little voice... 1002 01:53:28,440 --> 01:53:30,030 Mitsu... 1003 01:53:32,740 --> 01:53:39,200 you were never out of my mind... 1004 01:53:39,830 --> 01:53:42,410 even for a single day. 1005 01:53:44,460 --> 01:53:47,040 It's as if... 1006 01:53:48,880 --> 01:53:50,840 you're the only one... 1007 01:53:52,050 --> 01:53:56,470 I wasn't apart from for even a minute. 1008 01:54:01,430 --> 01:54:03,230 So Mitsu... 1009 01:54:05,690 --> 01:54:08,480 even though I kill myself... 1010 01:54:11,280 --> 01:54:16,360 I'll always be by your side. 1011 01:54:29,290 --> 01:54:31,340 Now I'm going to die. 1012 01:54:37,640 --> 01:54:39,100 Shizu... 1013 01:54:41,060 --> 01:54:42,560 Kaichiro... 1014 01:54:44,480 --> 01:54:45,810 Mitsu... 1015 01:54:48,400 --> 01:54:49,900 Keijiro... 1016 01:54:53,490 --> 01:55:01,490 I'm not going to hell, or to heaven. 1017 01:55:04,710 --> 01:55:06,080 I'm... 1018 01:55:10,170 --> 01:55:12,670 going to be with you... 1019 01:55:16,220 --> 01:55:18,630 every second... 1020 01:55:22,510 --> 01:55:24,100 with you! 1021 01:55:39,700 --> 01:55:45,330 I was there when Yoshimura-sensei died. 1022 01:56:03,890 --> 01:56:05,140 Sir... 1023 01:56:11,310 --> 01:56:13,360 "Take these two things..." 1024 01:56:13,480 --> 01:56:15,820 "... to my home. "' 1025 01:56:16,320 --> 01:56:17,820 He didn't use the sword! 1026 01:56:30,290 --> 01:56:32,540 You didn't touch the rice... 1027 01:56:34,630 --> 01:56:36,460 you stubborn mule! 1028 01:56:40,050 --> 01:56:40,730 Kanichiro! 1029 01:56:50,440 --> 01:56:53,940 Eat! 1030 01:56:55,650 --> 01:56:57,440 It's Nanbu rice. 1031 01:56:59,070 --> 01:57:04,120 From Morioka, grown with Kitakami River water. 1032 01:57:05,830 --> 01:57:06,990 Eat! 1033 01:57:12,580 --> 01:57:14,080 Kanichiro... 1034 01:57:16,290 --> 01:57:18,000 because of you... 1035 01:57:19,300 --> 01:57:23,510 Shizu and the children eat their fill. 1036 01:57:26,010 --> 01:57:28,510 It's your turn now. 1037 01:57:30,350 --> 01:57:34,600 You dreamed of Nanbu rice. 1038 01:57:37,820 --> 01:57:39,730 Eat, Kanichiro! 1039 01:57:40,940 --> 01:57:42,990 It's good! 1040 01:57:46,830 --> 01:57:47,510 Kanichiro! 1041 01:58:04,180 --> 01:58:08,430 He was named one of Lord Tokugawa's advance guard... 1042 01:58:10,430 --> 01:58:13,140 and served well. 1043 01:58:15,310 --> 01:58:20,440 Rather than suffer dishonor... 1044 01:58:21,530 --> 01:58:25,910 he asked to commit hara-kiri. 1045 01:58:27,070 --> 01:58:31,910 That was his choice? 1046 01:58:34,830 --> 01:58:36,460 Yes. 1047 01:58:38,590 --> 01:58:40,790 He refused a second... 1048 01:58:42,420 --> 01:58:45,590 and bravely, alone... 1049 01:58:45,840 --> 01:58:47,970 cut open his stomach. 1050 01:58:50,810 --> 01:58:53,470 With that sword? 1051 01:58:54,350 --> 01:58:55,600 No. 1052 01:58:56,270 --> 01:58:59,860 He wanted to give it to you. 1053 01:59:00,820 --> 01:59:02,940 He didn't want it stained. 1054 01:59:04,530 --> 01:59:06,150 He used another. 1055 01:59:08,780 --> 01:59:10,620 I see... 1056 01:59:18,960 --> 01:59:20,670 Husband... 1057 01:59:23,210 --> 01:59:25,630 thank you. 1058 01:59:28,890 --> 01:59:34,680 You worked so hard... 1059 01:59:37,390 --> 01:59:39,140 to support us. 1060 01:59:43,780 --> 01:59:46,070 Thank you. 1061 02:00:28,860 --> 02:00:31,160 So that's what happened... 1062 02:00:37,540 --> 02:00:44,710 Ordering him to do that must have broken your father's heart. 1063 02:00:47,460 --> 02:00:50,420 Suddenly, after that... 1064 02:00:52,010 --> 02:00:56,850 my father was like a different man. 1065 02:00:56,970 --> 02:00:59,770 They must never become the imperial army! 1066 02:01:00,310 --> 02:01:04,520 The southwestern clans started this war. 1067 02:01:04,650 --> 02:01:06,190 They are the rebels! 1068 02:01:06,320 --> 02:01:09,940 He had always been so cautious... 1069 02:01:10,070 --> 02:01:13,240 but when Akita went over to the southwestern clans... 1070 02:01:13,370 --> 02:01:16,990 he led the attack on it. 1071 02:01:18,080 --> 02:01:21,120 I call on the samurai of Nanbu to do their duty! 1072 02:01:21,250 --> 02:01:24,330 I can only think... 1073 02:01:24,630 --> 02:01:30,210 that he was looking for death in battle himself. 1074 02:01:30,920 --> 02:01:35,180 And, sadly, he found it. 1075 02:01:48,980 --> 02:01:52,030 May all be well with you. 1076 02:02:10,510 --> 02:02:11,710 Squire Chiaki! 1077 02:02:19,060 --> 02:02:20,310 Kaichiro... 1078 02:02:29,440 --> 02:02:32,400 I'm going to Hakodate to fight. 1079 02:02:34,360 --> 02:02:35,860 At the fort there? 1080 02:02:36,110 --> 02:02:37,110 Yes. 1081 02:02:38,070 --> 02:02:42,040 You'll never come back alive out of there! 1082 02:02:47,330 --> 02:02:49,000 I don't care. 1083 02:02:50,040 --> 02:02:55,590 That's not very smart. Why go if you know you won't come back? 1084 02:02:56,430 --> 02:03:00,890 The duty of a Nanbu samurai is to fight until the very last. 1085 02:03:09,560 --> 02:03:12,270 Don't go! Don't go! 1086 02:03:16,700 --> 02:03:17,820 Mitsu... 1087 02:03:19,030 --> 02:03:21,030 you can't stop him. 1088 02:03:44,180 --> 02:03:47,520 This is far enough, Squire Chiaki. 1089 02:03:48,230 --> 02:03:49,810 Thank you. 1090 02:03:51,940 --> 02:03:56,190 This is pure spring-water. Let's drink from it... 1091 02:03:57,240 --> 02:03:58,780 for luck. 1092 02:04:07,580 --> 02:04:10,210 Drink from my hands. 1093 02:04:18,260 --> 02:04:21,300 Now you drink from mine. 1094 02:04:28,140 --> 02:04:29,180 Here. 1095 02:04:35,530 --> 02:04:38,530 I won't take it! 1096 02:04:40,360 --> 02:04:44,910 When everyone else is trying to stay alive... 1097 02:04:46,080 --> 02:04:48,040 you're going to die! 1098 02:04:50,710 --> 02:04:54,920 You're only 16! You haven't lived yet! 1099 02:04:57,510 --> 02:05:01,130 Why do you have to die? 1100 02:05:04,220 --> 02:05:05,640 Squire Chiaki... 1101 02:05:07,310 --> 02:05:12,690 I can't leave the father I love to cross the River of Death alone. 1102 02:05:21,700 --> 02:05:24,660 So please... drink. 1103 02:05:36,290 --> 02:05:37,590 Kaichiro... 1104 02:05:38,840 --> 02:05:40,050 don't die! 1105 02:05:43,220 --> 02:05:44,550 Kaichiro! 1106 02:05:49,890 --> 02:05:50,500 Chiaki... 1107 02:05:56,730 --> 02:05:58,230 Chiaki! 1108 02:06:00,150 --> 02:06:01,400 Kaichiro... 1109 02:06:02,400 --> 02:06:03,700 don't die! 1110 02:06:04,820 --> 02:06:06,160 Don't die! 1111 02:06:07,280 --> 02:06:11,410 Brother! Don't go away! 1112 02:06:29,390 --> 02:06:33,100 Mitsu... l have to. 1113 02:06:33,770 --> 02:06:41,770 Brother! 1114 02:06:47,370 --> 02:06:49,450 Look after her, will you? 1115 02:06:51,660 --> 02:06:55,410 I will go and fight for Nanbu. 1116 02:07:13,060 --> 02:07:15,890 Brother! Brother! 1117 02:07:17,230 --> 02:07:18,480 Brother! 1118 02:07:29,990 --> 02:07:34,660 Kaichiro never came back to Morioka. 1119 02:07:35,120 --> 02:07:40,040 He died in the Battle of Hakodate. 1120 02:07:41,090 --> 02:07:42,670 Brother! 1121 02:07:42,800 --> 02:07:43,920 Mitsu! 1122 02:07:44,670 --> 02:07:48,130 I'll be your big brother now. 1123 02:07:55,020 --> 02:07:59,310 And then, later on... 1124 02:07:59,650 --> 02:08:02,110 I married Mitsu. 1125 02:08:28,880 --> 02:08:30,010 There! 1126 02:08:31,510 --> 02:08:32,550 All finished! 1127 02:08:32,680 --> 02:08:35,060 Well done! 1128 02:08:35,770 --> 02:08:37,350 Sorry to keep you. 1129 02:08:37,480 --> 02:08:38,640 Minoru... 1130 02:08:43,650 --> 02:08:47,400 I don't think it's serious. Just a cold. 1131 02:08:49,030 --> 02:08:54,120 I've mixed some medicine for his symptoms. 1132 02:08:54,700 --> 02:08:58,200 Give it to him after meals, and see he gets lots of rest. 1133 02:09:00,210 --> 02:09:02,210 Make sure you take this. OK? 1134 02:09:10,800 --> 02:09:14,800 My humble thanks, Yoshimura-sensei. 1135 02:09:26,150 --> 02:09:27,230 Well... 1136 02:09:35,700 --> 02:09:37,660 Thank you for your help. 1137 02:09:40,410 --> 02:09:42,120 Take care. 1138 02:09:46,960 --> 02:09:48,040 Come on. 1139 02:10:03,480 --> 02:10:09,940 Morioka, in Nanbu. It's a beautiful place. 1140 02:10:10,990 --> 02:10:14,400 Away to the south is Mt Hayachine... 1141 02:10:14,780 --> 02:10:19,160 with Mt Nansho and Mt Azumane to the west. 1142 02:10:23,210 --> 02:10:29,500 In the north are Mt lwate and Mt Himekami. 1143 02:10:30,500 --> 02:10:35,260 Out of the high mountains... 1144 02:10:35,680 --> 02:10:37,890 Grandpa, carry me! 1145 02:10:38,010 --> 02:10:41,100 No! A samurai walks! 1146 02:10:41,430 --> 02:10:42,770 Yes, sir. 1147 02:10:43,520 --> 02:10:47,520 Ah, it's pretty as a picture! 1148 02:10:47,900 --> 02:10:51,780 There is nowhere like it in all Japan! 1149 02:11:36,200 --> 02:11:39,200 May all be well with you. 1150 02:11:55,510 --> 02:11:58,930 Mitsu has lost so many who are close... 1151 02:11:59,640 --> 02:12:04,930 that even now in sleep she holds my hand and won't let go. 1152 02:12:05,770 --> 02:12:11,190 Words can not express how much of a help Mitsu has been to me. 1153 02:12:12,110 --> 02:12:15,070 After my father died in battle... 1154 02:12:15,320 --> 02:12:19,110 my family were treated as rebels and suppressed. 1155 02:12:19,320 --> 02:12:23,910 But perhaps that was luck, as it made it possible for me... 1156 02:12:24,040 --> 02:12:26,040 to marry Mitsu. 1157 02:12:27,410 --> 02:12:31,210 Sasuke, who has become the boss of a gambling syndicate... 1158 02:12:31,500 --> 02:12:35,250 looks out for us even now. 1159 02:12:36,550 --> 02:12:40,590 Mitsu and I have decided to move to China... 1160 02:12:40,720 --> 02:12:44,600 where we will practice medicine in Manchuria. 1161 02:12:45,430 --> 02:12:49,930 We will cross the sea and live in that empty land... 1162 02:12:50,390 --> 02:12:54,020 and do the best we can there. 1163 02:12:57,780 --> 02:13:04,820 Morioka, in Nanbu. It's pretty as a picture! 1164 02:13:04,950 --> 02:13:08,500 There's nowhere like it in all Japan! 1165 02:13:09,620 --> 02:13:13,580 The Morioka cherry blossom splits through rock to bloom. 1166 02:13:14,290 --> 02:13:18,630 The Morioka magnolia blooms even facing north. 1167 02:13:19,670 --> 02:13:24,640 So I want you to run ahead of the times. 1168 02:13:25,720 --> 02:13:33,720 Go wild. Bloom.