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DAIEI MOTION PICTURE CORPORATION

- Is it your child?

- Yes.

- It seems to me the baby was born without being wished for.

- I was betrayed by a cruel good-for-nothing

who used me, and in the end... he left me.

The baby was born right after that.

- Giving birth has nothing to do with it.

Now your job is to make sure that

you don't raise your kid to become the same type of man as me.

NEMURI KYOSHIRO FYLFOT SWORDPLAY (Nemuri Kyoshiro Manjigiri)

Planning by: YAHIRO Yamato Original Story by: SHIBATA Renzaburo Screenplay by: YODA Yoshikata

Photography by: TAKEDA Senkichiro Sound Recording by: OSUMI Masao Lighting by: FURUYA Kenji Art Direction: KATO Shigeru Music by: WATANABE Takeo

Film Editor: TANIGUCHI Toshio Fight Choreography: MIYAUCHI Shohei Sound Effects: KURASHIMA Nobu Ass't Director: OZU Hitoshi Production Manager: INAGAKI Masahiko Theme song: DAIEI RECORDS Performed by: MATSUKATA Hiroki Film Processing: TOYO LABORATORIES

Cast

MATSUKATA Hiroki

TAMURA Masakazu NAMIKAWA Yoko MATSUOKA Kikko

SHIMEGI Shigako KASAHARA Reiko MIKAGE Kyoko UDA Atsumi

NAKATANI Ichiro NAGATA Yasushi KATO Yoshi KAMEISHI Seiichiro DATE Takeshi UCHIDA Asao

KIMURA Gen MINAKAMI Yasuhiro HOTTA Shinzo KITANO Takuya KOBAYASHI Kanae TOMURA Masako KOYANAGI Keiko

HASHIMOTO Riki HAMADA Yuji HORIKITA Yukio KASUGA Kiyoshi WADA Tetsuji KIKUNO Masayoshi NIIZEKI Junjiro

YABUUCHI Takeshi MORIUCHI Kazuo OBAYASHI Kazuo KUROKI Gen UEHARA Kanji NUNOME Shinji MIYAMA Shinpachi BABA Katsuyoshi

ANDO Jinichiro AKATSUKI Shinjiro MATSUDA Gobu FUJIHARU Tamotsu BAN Yutaro HANAMURA Hideki TAKEUCHI Haruyoshi AZUMA Shinji

Directed by IKEHIRO Kazuo

- You saw it, didn't you?

- So what?

- Come with us!

- I refuse. - What?

- Are you ready to get killed?

- What did you say?

- If you're ready to die,

I don't mind playing the game with you.

- Where should I take you?

- Take me to the house where I came from, please.

I will show you the house.

- Let me ask you a silly question.

What do you want me to do?

- You can do anything you want with me.

- Lie down.

You're shaking.

You must be a virgin.

But why are you throwing yourself at a strange man?

Can't say?

Or, are you told to not say anything?

- Nemuri Kyoshiro, will you to try to escape?

- Your job is done.

Take the woman and get out of here.

- I'm the house caretaker for the Kishiwada clan of Edo...

- My policy is not to get involved

without the homeowner, nor do a favour and guard the house staff.

- But...

the way that you brought me here is interesting.

- I understand your policy, but I must say thank you...

- No! You want me to do something for you,

but I'm not sure that I'll do a favour for you.

- I beg your indulgence!

I want to ask you to rape a woman.

There is a set of Hina dolls that were handed down

from the Shogun's family in the clan's main house in Takanawa,

and a maid named Rie is guarding those Hina dolls.

Our lord has fallen for her

and he loves her so much that

he does whatever she wants him to.

Now we can't tell her what to do anymore.

- A stupid lord who likes women sleeps with a maid.

There's nothing wrong with that.

- But we found out that maid is a spy for the Satsuma clan.

So, we told our lord right away, but he doesn't believe us.

- So, you want me to rape her

and make him think that she is a soiled woman.

- That's right.

- Rumour has it,

that Satsuma's Shimazu and Kishiwada's Okabe

are in the bloom of manhood and both have burning ambitions.

If lenari becomes the Shogun, as we expect,

Mizuno Echizen will become the Chief Roju Elder,

and every post will be changed.

To get one of those posts, Shimazu or Okabe must fight for it.

What is the woman spy looking for?

Is it about finding the poison that's being used by the Edo house?

I'm right on target, aren't I?

- Nemuri-dono, I can't hide anything from you.

If the Satsuma clan learns where it is and tells the government,

the Kishiwada clan will be destroyed!

- I'm not interested in problems between Daimyo,

but I will listen to your request...

about raping the woman.

- Then, you will do it?

I will leave the lock on the front gate open about midnight.

Are you sure that you will do it?

- I must tell you this...

I just want to find out something.

- What is it?

- Just wait... You'll find out soon.

- Even! Even! Even!

- Bet! Bet! Bet! - Ready!

- Game!

- Even! Odd!

- What is it? Damn it all!

- Bet, bet, bet!

- It's all set.

- Game!

- 4 and 6, it's Even!

- Hey, you!

- What are you doing!

- You!

- I thought something was fishy.

You cheated! Kill this dealer!

- Wait!

- What? - Who are you?

- Let me handle this.

Let me take care of this dealer!

- What did you say? I don't need you!

- Maybe not, but I need you!

Is your name Yasugoro? - Yes.

- I want to use your contortionist skills

and try to break into a house.

- You're joking!

- It's risky, but I'll pay you well.

Yasugoro, this will be a graveyard,

so wait at the Shimada clan's house in Takao.

Hurry up! - Yes!

You showed up fast...

Satsuma spies!

You're sharp dressers!

- Nemuri Kyoshiro,

I don't know what that Kishiwada man asked you to do,

but if you have something to do with the Kishiwada Clan,

you should leave them!

- If I don't?

- I'll kill you! - That sounds like fun.

Show me the Jigen-ryusword skill.

As usual, you men are too stiff.

Multiple swordsmen can't attack a single foe

because of the Satsuma Clan's pride.

- That's right!

Our rule is to fight man to man.

If our man gets killed, the next steps over his corpse and fights.

Nemuri Kyoshiro, will you accept our Jigen-ryu challenge?

- Yes, I will!

You're a half-breed?

- So what?

- Tell me your name.

- Umezu Ichirota.

- Why does a man who has a

foreigner parent fight for the Satsuma clan?

- My mother was the Miyakojima Magistrate's daughter.

She went to Miyakojima with her father and when they came 2 years later,

she had given birth to me already.

- How about your father?

- I don't know.

And then...

After he reported his return home to the office,

my grandfather killed my mother and committed suicide.

But the people of Satsuma were very good to this sad, lonely child.

It's natural for me to help the people of Satsuma.

- Don't you think that it's odd?

- Then, are you saying that your life is not odd?

You became a roving scoundrel...

and you're living as a cynical cross-breed.

Stop being so self-centered.

- Go on.

I'm not in the mood to kill you!

- No, I won't leave!

I want to kill you with these hands!

- Why?

- Your father is Croby Varderon of Holland.

I don't need your sympathy!

- It's not sympathy!

I want to see with my own eyes just how a man

with red hair like mine lives on.

- There's no need to say that!

- You better not hurry to die.

- Kyoshiro, I'll cut you down some day!

For myself and for Satsuma.

KISHIWADA CLAN MANSION

- Can you do it?

If you know that it's useless, you must give up.

I'm sure that you were taught that.

A real lady is to obey no matter how humiliating. That is a woman's fate.

- Please don't put on the light!

- I didn't sneak in to practice manners, so you have to

put up with this.

Your name is Rie, right?

I don't think that you came here voluntarily, did you?

You slept with a man who knew your real identity.

Are you prepared for it?

Don't feel guilty!

Is this Kishiwada clan mansion vacant?!

Nemuri Kyoshiro slept with the lord's woman!

Come out! Come out!

- Kill him! Kill him!

- It's an intruder! - It's an intruder!

- Kill him! Kill him!

- It's an intruder! It's an intruder!

- Nemuri-dono, I asked you to rape the woman,

but I didn't ask you to steal the dolls!

Please tell me where you hid the dolls!

- When I accepted your request,

I'm sure you heard me say I want to find something out.

- So. What's that got to do with Hina dolls?

- You'll soon see...

- What?

- You are Nemuri Kyoshiro, aren't you?

Is it true that you raped this woman?

- I don't lie.

- Tell me why!

Why didn't you leave silently?

Why did you shout out to everyone!?

- In order to get caught.

- What did you say?

- I wanted to get caught.

- Very well!

I am going to chop your head off! - Before that...

- I have something to say! - What?

- Two Hina dolls handed down by the Shogun's family

are missing...

- Mundo, is that true?

- Yes, sir!

- You... you stole them, didn't you?

- Lf you kill me now, you'll never find out where those dolls are...

- Tell me! Where did you hide them?

- I want you to listen to me before I tell you.

- You thief!

Are you trying to blackmail me?

- First, I want you to chop off this Hina doll's head.

I don't mean to chop off our heads...

I'm talking about one of dolls.

Kunimune-dono...

Have you the nerve to behead a doll given by the Shogun's family?

Of course not.

You act like a good lord in the public,

but behind closed doors, you break every law.

But knowing that it has to do with the Shogun's family,

you can't destroy one little doll.

I've seen with my own eyes what a coward you are.

If you can't destroy that Hina doll,

I'm taking this woman with me.

- Where are the dolls?

- Over there.

Exactly like her.

The very image...

- Me?

With who?

- My mother.

- Where is your mother?

- She is on a hill east of Kyoto.

She is resting in peace near the home of the man who made these dolls.

And when I saw you,

I made up my mind to put my mother's soul into this dolls.

- That's why you offered to get these dolls repaired, isn't it?

Nemuri-sama, please don't! It's a very dangerous job!

- Lf I get my foot on the ship,

even if that ship is sinking, I must stay on the ship.

This is my policy.

- But... - There's another reason.

If these dolls were destroyed, it would be a good opportunity

for the Satsuma clan to destroy the Kishiwada clan,

so I am sure that they are coming after me.

And in that group of spies,

there is a man who I am very interested in.

- Please take me with you!

- No, I can't.

- Then, please let me wait for you here!

Kyoshiro-sama!

- I'm not a man who worries about tomorrow.

I always think that today is the last day.

If you understand this,

you're free to do whatever you want.

- "Kami ga misuteta... (The gods left me with... )

"Kodokunokage ni... (this shadow of loneliness)

"Teki ga chikazuku... (My enemy sneaks in... )

"Shinobiyoru. (from somewhere.)

"Edo no Yozora no... (In Edo's night sky... )

"Hoshi ga mita. (the stars are watching.)

"Muso Masamune... ('Peerless' Masamune... )

"Kyo mo kiru." (kills again today.)

"NOTICE FOR NEMURI KYOSHIRO"

"A woman came in here and prayed desperately...

"I saw tears in a beautiful woman's eyes...

"So, I am inviting you."

"Yamagatsu Tenshin"

- You're here.

It's been almost a year... I missed you.

- How did you know I was coming?

- I heard you're making trouble for the Satsuma clan. Are you?

- How much trouble can just one ronin make?

- But you aren't just a ronin.

I just wanted to see your sword technique,

but not as a challenger!

- How do you know her?

- Her late father and I were very good friends...

He was a straightforward bushido man...

and he raised his daughter and son strictly.

- Where is the woman?

- At the hut in back.

- I'm the wife of Satsuma clan leader Koizumi Yaichiro. I am Ito.

I have a favor to ask of you.

Tomorrow late afternoon,

the best samurai in our clan, chosen from the dojo

will come to get you.

Among them

is my husband.

Teishinbo-dono told me how good your sword skill is.

I beg of you,

please... try not to hurt my husband!

This is the favour I ask of you.

- A samurai must protect his own clan.

To do so,

he must fight at the risk of his life.

- Yes.

- That's a good attitude.

A lowly ronin is hungry for his own benefit,

so when the opportunity arises, I will take it.

I want to have you!

You're too young to be an assassin!

Be a good girl and think of how to please a man.

Enjoy...

Enjoy it more...

The more you enjoy it, the more excited...

you make me.

- From Satsuma clan, Horio Masanoshin!

- Same as him, Kano Chuzaburo!

- The same, Koizumi Yaichiro!

- Same as them, Sato Nizaemon!

- Same, Yokota Muro!

- Kume Eijiro!

- Higashida Chizen!

- I'm not saying that you men are unskilled,

but if you attack from the front, you have no chance to defeat me.

I'm going down these stone steps,

so why not attack from the rear?

I promise not to turn around.

A woman gives herself to another man to save her husband's life.

You are the ideal of a good wife.

It's the ideal all right, but something is missing.

I got what you offered,

but didn't promise to not cut him down.

- Ten men of the first Edo unit have been killed.

And today Kyoshiro has struck another seven dead.

That man's sword skill is far beyond the ordinary!

He doesn't worry about pride or honor.

It's like a powerful ocean current.

- But Kyoshiro must have some weak point.

If we find it, we can beat him.

- That's right! He must have!

We must act before he goes to Kyoto!

Whatever it takes, we shall kill Kyoshiro!

And take back those dolls!

- Excuse me... Sir traveler.

- Are you staying in Numazu tonight?

- Most likely.

- Then, I have a favour to ask of you.

Can you listen to me?

- Are you selling yourself?

- You are a very clever man.

But it's not me, it's my sister.

- What's going on here?

- She's possessed by a bad animal spirit.

She acts violently so we have no choice.

- You want me to rid her of that evil spirit?

- I guarantee you that she is really a virgin,

and to get rid of an evil spirit from a virgin,

she needs a man with good luck to sleep with her.

- Do I look like a man with good luck?

- Don't tell me...

that you don't want to.

- No man would refuse to have a virgin girl.

- Sir, the purpose is

to rid of her of that evil sprit.

So, I don't want you

to play around with her.

- Some saké?

- Later.

- You want me to take her while sober?

- Well, be my guest...

- Evil spirit...

Where are you?

Where!?

Say it!

Is it here?

Is it here?

Are you really possessed?

They put this cloth in your mouth,

so you can't speak, didn't they?

Hey! Say something!

I am going to kiss you,

so your mouth will be open.

- I've got you!

Nemuri Kyoshiro, I'm going to kill you!

- You're not skilled enough to kill me!

A woman should think about just being a woman!

Excuse me... Can you take me across the river?

- Oh yes, you can't see what to do, can you?

Come on!

- Thank you.

- Nemuri-sama, over here, hurry!

- I must say thank you.

What happened to your sister?

- She is not my sister.

She's a Satsuma ninja.

She asked me to kill Nemuri Kyoshiro and I accepted.

- You tried to kill me once.

Why did you rescue me?

- I want to see Nemuri Kyoshiro in his final great moment.

In Edo I saw you fight and kill 15 men.

Ever since that day,

I became intrigued with Nemuri Kyoshiro.

- Why didn't you come see me?

- I love you as a swordsman,

not as a sexual partner.

- Are you waiting for my final day?

- I don't think you're the type to die in bed.

I want to see you fighting at your very best.

And I want to see your final day with these eyes.

When Nemuri Kyoshiro's final day has come,

I can then be one with you.

- Be one with me?

- There's no need for more than one Nemuri Kyoshiro in this world.

If the real Kyoshiro dies,

I'll have this Kyoshiro on my back all to myself!

- I am sorry, but I can't die so easily,

nor can I ever be yours.

Just think of me as a very unlucky man.

- No! No!

No! Let go of me! Let go of me! No!

- I took you because you tried to kill me.

Don't you dare act like you have feelings for me!

- Kyoshiro!

I, Hayato Onmitsu(The Spy) Will get you for sure!

We're going to show you our own Full Moon Style!

- Sir ronin, you better pray, too!

Bad luck will turn to good luck!

- What rite is this?

- We are going to sacrifice the girl!

If we offer a pure virgin girl,

the rest of our people

will be saved for the entire year!

- Our father in Heaven! Please give us hope!

Santa Maria!

- What are you doing!?

- I am taking this girl with me!

Object and I'll kill you!

- You damned wretch!

- Are you a secret Christian?

While the people were chanting

as they put you inside the ceremonial Gong

I heard your prayer.

- Please, I beg of you!

Don't tell anyone about this, please!

- What are you afraid of? You accepted death, didn't you?

- Please let me go.

I can't tell you!

- When the young monk asked a favor of me,

I accepted in exchange the favor of a young virgin girl.

- You can have me.

Ryuma!

- Shino-sama, stop that!

Stop being foolish!

You're a government spy!

I can't let you live!

- Don't do it, Ryuma!

Killing is against our religion!

- Let go of me! - No, I won't!

Ryuma!

- Move!

- I'm not a government spy!

Just a lowly ronin!

But I have a deep hatred...

toward your religion...

and the religious leader...

- Then I can't let you live!

- Ryuma!

Ryuma...

I was sacrificing my life in order to

save our people from becoming victims.

I will tell you everything now.

I am from Kurusu village.

And as you can see, everyone in our village are Christians

and we don't associate with outsiders, not even in marriage.

But then, four days ago,

a man with a devil's mask came to my father

and ordered him to offer a young girl as sacrifice.

If he refused,

we feared trouble with the other village

and the secret that we're Christians would be revealed.

That's why I wanted to be an offering.

- Are you the daughter of Muraoki?

- Yes.

- I didn't rescue you because I felt sorry for you,

but I just didn't like you to be giving up your life

to protect your religion!

Let me play with you for a while, then I'll sell you to a brothel!

After being a prostitute...

Do you still have the faith to keep being Christian?

- Please give me that back!

- Rie-dono...

- Please forgive me.

I couldn't help myself.

I had to follow you.

- Once before I had a quiet night like this.

It was not by my choosing,

but the women who came to me had sad ends to their lives.

I made up my mind to remain single.

So, if I sleep with you tonight,

it's not a promise for tomorrow.

- Women...

don't think about anything else but the here and now.

- I just guessed and revealed your true identity,

with the very cruel way that I raped you.

- When I left Edo...

I made up my mind...

to be yours.

What made me feel that way...

I don't know.

But...

I made up my mind already, so I can't change now.

Therefore...

I am not thinking about tomorrow!

- Why don't you make the bed?

Just one bed.

- Kyoshiro-sama!

- These Hina dolls

were made when I was at the peak of my career.

So making exactly the same items,

at this time may not be possible.

- I expected you to say that.

I am only a wandering ronin,

without the ability to tell originals from duplicates.

I want to protect myself from trouble caused by these dolls

going from Edo to Kyoto.

If you refuse to make duplicates,

I can't force you,

then I will give up.

- Please wait!

I don't know how,

but you have the ability to read other people's hearts!

In my old age I can make these Hina dolls,

but I don't know if they will be exactly the same.

I want to do this as the last production in my life.

I will accept your request!

- Thank you!

As I see, you are alone here.

So, I brought someone to take care of your meals.

Please accept my offer.

Rie!

Rie!

"Kyoshiro, I have your woman, so come see me."

- Nemuri Kyoshiro, I was waiting for you!

- Where is the woman?

Who are you?

- Three years ago at Ganryu dojo on Mt. Nikko you killed

my brother Okumura Koten.

I'm Okumura Benjiro!

- Is this revenge for your brother?

- It's a challenge, Kyoshiro!

But it's not an easy fight!

Let's see if you can kill me first,

or if I can cut this rope first!

You are a man who can kill your own women.

Behind your cool face, there is an icy cold heart.

Come on!

If you can let her plunge to the bottom, attack!

What's wrong, Kyoshiro?

- What do you want me to do?

- Lf you can't draw your sword,

I want you to take your peerless Masamune that killed so many

and break it in half!

- There is no choice.

Let's fight!

- Are you bragging that you can kill me

before I cut her rope?

- I'm not bragging!

I just can't break my peerless Masamune in half.

- Very well... Come on!

- Umezu Ichirota.

I must say thank you.

- There's no need!

Nemuri Kyoshiro, I'll kill you someday.

That's why I rescued you!

- To finish these, I went 7 days without sleeping.

- They're wonderful!

- What shall I do with these?

- It's not necessary to have two sets of rare items.

- Is your mother's grave far away?

- Past that corner on the mountain top.

Mother's grave is there.

- Kyoshiro-sama.

If I die,

can you bury me right next to your mother?

- Lf I am still alive...

I shall do so.

- I am so happy...

- Ichirota...

You...

- The spy who betrayed the Satsuma clan had to die!

- I just wanted see how a man lives his life

with hair the same color as mine.

And if he is living a happy life.

But... I think your life will end

as a spy who spent his life in the underworld.

- Shut up!

Even if I die as a spy, I had a dream that I reached.

But you don't have a dream.

Do you have a dream?

Did you have happiness as a human being?

- I became a man who wants to kill you!

- Kyoshiro!

We 10 men of the Hayato spy group challenge you!

With our pride,

it will be a man-to-man fight!

It will be a tough fight! Be ready and come on!

- Lf you insist on a fight, I'll give you one!

Nemuri Kyoshiro...

will cut you down!

- Edo's First unit leader, Umezu Ichirota!

- Kagoshima's First unit leader, Inuzuki Kageyu!

- Kagoshima's 2nd unit leader, ljuin Tsukasa!

- Edo's 3rd unit Co-leader, Togo Kuranosuke!

- Kagoshima's 3rd unit Leader, Kuwa Menbun!

- Kagoshima's First unit, Co-leader, Hoshino Gengo!

- 15th unit Co-leader, Fukuzaki Tetsumasa!

- 13th unit Leader, Uchi Eizaburo!

- 13th unit Co-leader, Oyama Shinpachi!

- Satsuma's Hayato spy group Leader, Toda Suishin!

- Kyoshiro, the fight is not over yet.

- You insist on finishing the fight?

- Yes...

"- Asu ni ikinai... (Not for tomorrow)

"Ronin Sugata. (is the life of a ronin.)

"Hito niwa Misenai... (No one get to see... )

"Kono Namida. (the tears that he sheds.)

"Edo no Yozora no... (In Edo's night sky... )

"Hoshi ga mita. (the stars are watching.)

"Nemuri Kyoshiro...

"Doko e Iku?" (where are you going?)

THE END