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I think she has only ten days left.

During his checkered life, Motonari had some women who supported him.

Among them, the woman who stayed near him for the longest time...

...was his wife, Lady Mii.

You should live as you wish.

You didn't do anything wrong, sire.

She had been warmly watching Motonari when he was suffering and hurt.

But the dark shadow of death was approaching her.

You're the most precious to me, Mii.

Don't get weak-hearted.

During her last ten days,

Mii would keep the flame of her life.

MORI MOTONARI

Episode 30: Good-bye, Mii

Screenplay by: Uchidate Makiko

Original Story by: Nagai Michiko

Music by: Watanabe Toshiyuki

Theme Song Performed by: NHK Symphony Orchestra Music Performed by: Concert Regnie

Title Calligraphy by: Mori Motonari Narration by: Hirano Keiko

CAST

Mori Motonari: Nakamura Hashinosuke

Lady Mii: Tomita Yasuko

Fujino: Kaga Mariko

Mori Takamoto: Kamikawa Takaya

Eno: Takahashi Yumiko

Akagawa Motoyasu: Nagashima Toshiyuki

Kodama Naritada: Masuoka Toru

Katsura Motozumi: Tsurumi Shingo

Shiji Hiroyoshi: Nakamura Baijaku

Mori Motoharu: Matsushige Yutaka Hisa: Matsukane Yoneko

Sue Takafusa: Jinnai Takanori

Kikkawa Okitsune: Kyomoto Masaki

Naito Okimori: Onodera Akira

Toshi: Otsuka Nene

Ouchi Yoshitaka: Kazama Toru

Noda Jiro: Matoba Koji

Amago Kunihisa: Shimizu Koji

Amago Haruhisa: Takashima Masahiro

Shishido Takaie: Kase Taishu Inoue Harutada: Namase Katsuhisa

Kunishi Motosuke: Sakamoto Akira Awaya Motochika: Shionoya Masayuki

Sagara Taketou: Shirai Akira Kosanta: Nasa Kenji Tokujumaru: Tomita Shigeo

Lady Sugi: Matsuzaka Keiko

Produced by: Kida Yukinori

English Subtitles: Koala Fansubs

Directed by: Matsuoka Koji

They were told that Mii would have only ten days left.

Then, dawn broke.

Ten more days...?

Can't be!

How can a physician predict such a thing?

He has seen a patient with the same illness...

...who lived only ten days after diagnosis.

She has only ten more days.

We shouldn't let her find that out.

Buddha...

...won't let her die.

The physician did say she would have only ten days left.

But...

...if she is still alive after ten days...

...that means Buddha won't allow her to die.

That's right.

People are allowed to die only with permission from Buddha.

Please, everyone.

Please complain to Buddha how mean, deceitful and selfish Her Ladyship is.

Mother is not that kind of woman.

Young girls are so shallow-minded.

If everyone complains the same things...

...Buddha won't want to have her in heaven.

Hurry.

Go to the Buddhist altar room.

Hurry.

"It is sad, but..."

"...according to the physician,"

"your mother can live only ten more days."

TOKUJUMARU (Motonari's Third Son)

"Come to Koriyama Castle quickly."

If she has only ten days left, sire,

you must visit her immediately.

I'm not going!

You're not going?

INOUE HARUTADA (Mori Vassal, Aide for Tokujumaru) - Mother's not dying.

I know it.

She's not dying.

Come to think of it, you're right.

Illness hates people who laugh a lot.

It doesn't want to stay in her body too long.

Harutada, you think so?

Do you?

Harutada, you think so, too?

Do you?

You think so, too?

What are you looking at?

"What an old man." Is that what you want to say?

I'm not saying that.

If I do, you would say, "What an old woman."

Well.

I'm gonna say more.

You were so cute when you came from the Kikkawa.

But you're beyond recognition now.

The Kikkawa clan is now beyond recognition, too.

When I came to marry you,

they were well-known as the "Demon Kikkawa".

The Kikkawa must be...

...all done.

But...

...it is sad to see my parents' home disappear.

Inoue-dono is not here yet?

He's been neglecting his duties these days.

Never mind.

Scoot over.

Now.

There's something I want you to talk over.

Sire.

I'm thinking of sending Okitsune back to the Kikkawa castle...

...and restoring his title as the Kikkawa clan head.

- Why? - What did you say?

Please wait.

You're returning to him the Kikkawa fief that we obtained. Is that right?

That's right.

You're returning it to the betrayer?

Are you going to appease Lord Ouchi's anger for him?

You're right.

No matter what you say, I'm against it.

Okitsune let us down badly. He's a betrayer.

Why are you helping him that much?

That doesn't make any sense.

- Well.

They are still the "Demon Kikkawa".

I want to save at least their name.

You must crush them now, because they are demons.

Oh, no.

That's the opposite.

If we save the Kikkawa's name, Okitsune will feel much obliged to us.

Right.

I agree with you, sire.

Save their name, and we can manipulate them.

Takamoto!

You're wrong.

Okitsune is the kind of man who bites the hand that feeds him.

Once he becomes the head again, you can't manipulate him.

He did shameful conducts as samurai. No need to save the Kikkawa's name!

When you crush a clan, you must cut off the head.

Motoharu, don't you understand Father's feelings?

I do!

For the sake of Mother, right?

You shouldn't be lost to emotion when you govern your fief.

He is right.

Sire, you just thought about that, didn't you?

That's right. Okitsune is too dangerous.

You are right.

But...

...I'm sending Okitsune back to the Kikkawa.

- Got it? - Sire!!

Sire!

Wait, Motoharu!

Motoharu.

What you said and what everyone is worried about...

...they all make sense.

I'll do something about Okitsune in future.

But I can't tell you now.

Motoharu.

Do you understand?

Everyone is being so nice to me.

Being sick isn't bad.

Yeah, something even better will happen to you.

A cute young boy is coming to take care of me?

Hey, Shiji.

Don't you have any herb to shut her bad mouth?

If I had any, I'd use it on my wife.

Oh, Takamoto-dono must take a wife pretty soon.

Ah, right.

Don't you know any girl who doesn't have bad mouth?

Right, Mii?

Takamoto.

You seem to be getting letters often from Yamaguchi, from a girl called Toshi.

You two are in love, aren't you?

Well...

Oh, my...

Naito-dono's daughter would be perfect for him.

- Takamoto-dono, I'll talk to them. - Oh, no...

That means 'yes', Takamoto?

OUCHI YOSHITAKA'S MANSION (Yamaguchi)

What a fine tea cup.

A soul-shaking beauty, isn't it?

Look how radiant this is.

How shiny.

Sire.

The Amago are taking advantage of the momentum.

They keep attacking the Bingo and are trying to get Aki.

Despite that,

you keep talking about tea parties and poetry parites.

You're spending money like water, having them make tea cups...

...having them paint for you.

The money should be used for battles, shouldn't it?

I dislike battles.

Battle is not a question of like or dislike.

It's a matter of survival.

I realized something.

I fight and capture fiefs, but those fiefs might be taken away in the future.

You don't know how long they belong to the Ouchi.

But...

...poems, tea cups, towers and temples remain for generations.

They comfort people.

Showing our power attracts more people and money.

Ideals don't do anything.

That's your job, Takafusa.

I heard you're doing great attacking the Yamana's Kannnabe Castle.

I'm proud of you, Takafusa.

I'll leave everything to you.

Takafusa's telling me that he cannot respect you, sire.

A man can demonstrate his ability...

...only when he respects his leader.

The Murakami Navy took over the Inland Sea...

...because we always had leaders whom we can respect.

I came here to learn more, but...

...I have nothing to learn from the rotten Ouchi.

Insolent!

- I'll chop off your head! - Wait!

Sire!

Every time I touch this scar...

...I remember how loathsome killing is.

Every time I touch this scar...

...I feel urged to protect everyone risking my own life.

Takafusa.

I'll leave it to you.

GASSAN-TODA CASTLE (Izumo)

What is your famous Shingu Party doing?

If this goes on, the Ouchi will have Kannabe Castle back...

...and we'll lose our stronghold in Bingo!

As it stands now, even the Shingu Party cannot protect the castle.

- We must rethink the strategy... - No excuse!

Take care of it right now!

We must conquer Bingo as soon as possible to get to Aki.

No time to rethink the strategy!

Right, Okitsune?

KIKKAWA OKITSUNE (Kikkawa Clan Head)

What do you think?

I'm right, aren't I?

Sire!

- He doesn't answer, because he thinks I'm right. - Well.

I see.

If you disagree with me, you cannot stay in this castle.

Even worse, the Kikkawa fief belongs to the Mori now.

What do you say, Okitsune?

You're useless!

I don't know what to do with him.

Because he does have power...

...he's growing bullish.

Okitsune-dono.

Who's there?

This is from the Mori lord.

From Motonari?

NAITO OKIMORI'S MANSION (Yamaguchi)

As for restoring Kikkawa Okitsune as the clan's head...

...Lord Ouchi agreed easily, thanks to your mediation.

Thank you very much.

Well, I'm glad that I could be of help.

Now, we haven't told him about Miss Toshi.

We thought we should find out how you two are feeling.

Father, I'd like to say something on that.

I would like to marry Takamoto-dono.

Really?

Yes.

You cannot marry anyone without the lord's permission.

Before that, I'd like to go to Yoshida secretly with Shiji-dono.

Father.

Please allow me to sneak out only for one day.

KORIYAMA CASTLE (Aki)

I have good appetite these days.

I feel sorry for Takamoto, who doesn't have an appetite.

Why is that, Takamoto-dono?

He's taking a wife, but he hasn't heard from Shiji-dono yet.

That's why he gets a lump in his throat.

Motoharu!

Why do you speak so bluntly!?

You don't know the subtlety of human feelings!

He was born to be a tasteless man.

Huh!? I'm a warrior.

What the heck is 'subtlety'?

You can't capture castles thinking about such a thing.

Winning a woman's heart is different from castle-capturing.

- Yeah, different! - No, same!

Hey, stop it.

Mii.

I wonder why they don't get along.

My teaching of three arrows isn't helping at all.

Now.

Get out of here to fight more.

That's what I want.

Go outside.

I don't know what to do with them.

Takaie-dono, let's go with them.

Fujino, take care of her. Eno, hurry up.

Let's watch them fight.

Hurry up.

Fujino.

I'm dying soon, aren't I?

No need to hide.

The lord looks older for some reason.

Even just now, when they all laughed, they seemed to be crying.

Eno visits me often.

They are trying to get a wife for Takamoto.

- That's... - Fujino.

Tell me. How long do I have?

I'll be honest with you.

Nobody has said you're dying. Not even once.

Really?

OK, if you say so.

When I die...

...I want to smile and say, "I had so much fun."

That's why I couldn't help asking you.

Nobody has said you're dying.

I want to thank the lord like this...

"I was so happy having talked leisurely with you, sire."

If I'm getting well, I'm not supposed to thank my husband.

But, if I die suddenly, I'll regret that.

Nobody is saying you're dying.

OK, if you say so.

Fujino.

People must live well and die well.

If they have any regret, they can't die well.

That's what I thought.

You don't have much time left.

You have only several days...

Fujino.

I've always thought you...

...as my elder sister.

Your younger sister can die well, thanks to you, Sister.

Sister.

Holy Buddha, please listen to me carefully.

Her Ladyship is a lier, a wicked woman and a thief.

She doesn't deserve dying.

Sugi-sama, that's too much saying she's a wicked woman and a thief.

If I lie, Buddha won't let me die.

A single prayer saves two people.

I see.

Please... please...

Sugi-sama.

Mii-sama asked me twice...

...and I told her that she didn't have much time left.

Really?

You did something irreparable.

People get energy because they don't know when they will die.

If they know when they will die, they get scared every day.

What are you thinking?

Mii-sama is a strong person.

She wants to cherish the moments until she dies.

Shut up!

Some people get more energy after they find out when they will die.

I cannot keep deceiving her.

While she's being deceived, she might overcome her incurable disease.

Everyone is different.

I think Mii-sama can die better if she knows when she will die.

Mii.

What are you doing?

Sire.

I found our four children's writings.

Our small children got bigger already.

Their personalities have been distinct since childhood.

"Parents" - Takamoto was round (soft)...

Motoharu was sharp...

Tokujumaru was cheerful even in writing...

Eno was strong-minded even in writing.

These four papers are my charms. I'd like to bring them wherever I go.

Please remember that.

I got it.

What's wrong?

Are you all right?

Mii.

It's cold here.

Now.

Rest in bed.

All right?

Ready?

KORIYAMA CASTLE (Aki)

Excuse me.

Miss Toshi is here.

She's here!?

Why?

I just came back.

I wanted her to see Her Ladyship.

So I kidnapped her before the wedding.

Father.

My name is Toshi.

Fath...?

Oh, thank you.

I would like to see Mother.

Takamoto-dono.

This way.

KOBAYAKAWA-KIMURA CASTLE (Takehara)

Upon receiving a letter saying Mii would have only two more days...

...Tokujumaru decided to see his mother.

I'm not going.

You're not going?

If I go there, Mother will find out she's dying.

That's not good for her.

This might be your last chance to see her.

Go and see her.

I'll bear with it.

If I go there, that's not good for her.

I was wrong.

I shouldn't have told her that she is dying.

Mii-sama must be feeling so sad saying good-bye to everyone...

I can feel that now.

No.

I'm the one who was wrong.

Her Ladyship lived admirably these nine days.

No matter what happens...

...she won't have any regrets.

If she didn't know she was dying,

she might have just laid down.

I did something irreparable...!

Mii-sama.

Let's pray together.

Please come over here.

Here.

Please save Mii-sama.

Mii...

I was...

...blessed with really good children.

Takamoto has deep mercy. He is dignified.

Motoharu doesn't have any wit...

...but he is straight-forward and honest.

I was often comforted by you and my children.

I was happy.

That's why I'm wondering now.

About what?

When you were weak-hearted...

...did I comfort you as warm-heartedly as you all did?

You've always been warm-hearted.

You and I...

...have been a real interesting couple, haven't we?

We have.

Marriage is really good.

We met among numerous men and women...

...had children, and...

Hitting on other woman secretly?

It was fun.

Mii.

The good part of marriage starts from now on.

I want you to encourage me all the while.

Say, "You're almost winning."

Sire.

You're almost winning.

Now.

Mii.

Get some rest.

The sun will be up soon.

My rouge...

What's that?

My rouge...

OK.

I'll get it.

Go ahead.

Now.

Here.

Mii.

You're pretty.

You're making me happy.

Sire.

We live in the transient world.

The time flew by quickly.

When I came to marry you...

...you lived in the tiny Sarukake Castle.

That's right.

Whenever something happened...

...you and I ran around the mountain castle together.

My kimono...

...got wet with mountain fog.

Mii.

Can you show me outside?

I want to see the dawn.

The fog...

...has lifted.

The fog...

...has lifted.

Sire.

Mii.

That's right.

The fog has lifted.

Mii ended her 47 year-long life.

Mii...!

End of Episode 30