All language subtitles for Dokuganryu Masamune 38

City Sendai

City Sendai with
population 710.000 people.

Future of Touhoku

We show you the opening of
exposition "Future of Touhoku".

'87 Exposition
"Future of Touhoku"

Numerous pavilions and
events gather popularity...

...and number of visitors
achieved already 2.000.000.

The 73-days-long exposition
will end in few days.

Star Festival

This is well-know Star Festival.

The City of Trees Sendai,

...as vital-point of trade and
traffic, is developing more and more.

And of course, this stared
with Date Masamune.

Masamune built here a big
castle and castle town.

Western Army

Ishida Mitsunari
decapitated

Konishi Yukinaga
decapitated

Ukita Hideie
exiled

Mori Terumoto
income 120->37

Uesugi Kagekatsu
income 120->30

Satake Yoshinobu
income 55->21

Eastern Army

Fukushima Masanori
income 20->50

Kuroda Nagamasa
income 18->52

Kato Kiyomasa
income 25->52

Ikeda Terumasa
income 15->52

Yamauchi Katsutoyo
income 7->20

Mogami Yoshiaki
income 24->57

Date Masamune
income 58->60

Tokugawa Ieyasu, wining
the Battle of Sekigahara,

trying to seize the
whole country...

...started immediately
giving out the reward.

The commanders in Eastern Army
supporting Ieyasu...

...each of them greatly
increased his income,

...and only Masamune's increase
was in amount of 2.000.

This was meant as punishment for

Masamune supporting Waga-rebellion
in southern domains.

And now during 400 centuries,

...has this 600.000 income become
a metropolis with 710.000 people.

Mutsu Area with income 600.000

Dokuganryu Masamune
(One-eyed Dragon Masamune)

Episode 38:
Building Sendai Castle

Screenplay by James Miki

Based on the novel "Date Masamune"
by Sohachi Yamaoka

Music by Shinichiro Ikebe

Theme music performed by
NHK Symphony Orchestra

CAST

Masamune Date:
KEN WATANABE

Shigezane Date:
TOMOKAZU MIURA

Kojuro Katakura:
TERUHIKO SAIGO

Princess Mego:
JUNKO SAKURADA

Sadatsuna Ouchi:
MINORI TERADA

Lady Yodo
KANAKO HIGUCHI

Sokun Imai:
KEI TANI

Munenori Yagyu:
RENJI ISHIBASHI

Harunaga Ono:
TAKAAKI ENOKI

Nagayasu Okubo:
RYUNOSUKE KANEDA

Lady Neko:
KUMIKO AKIYOSHI

Ieyasu Tokugawa:
MASAHIKO TSUGAWA

October 1601.

Fushimi Castle

Ieyasu ordered Masamune
to come to Kyoto.

At the time, Ieyasu
had left Osaka Castle

and was using
Fushimi Castle as his base.

Thanks for coming
from afar.

I am very pleased to
see you looking so well.

It's been a while.

I congratulate you on
your decisive victory.

You did well, too.
I thank you.

Thank you for
your kind words.

Did you meet Hidetada?

I had the honor of seeing
him at Edo Castle

and he was very kind to me.

That's good.

Here is an inventory of
Sir Date's gifts.

- Munenori.
- Yes, Sir.

The castle?

Excuse me?

I mean Sendai Castle.

Is the construction
going well?

We're a bit stymied by
the lack of forced laborers.

I'm not surprised.

Since I hear it's a stone
mountain castle

larger than Osaka Castle.

Oh no, it's a size befitting
my station in life.

Mountain castles are
rare these days.

Your vassals will have a hard
time commuting.

It will build up their muscles.

I see. You're strengthening
your army

barricading them in the castle.

Are you thinking of
going to war?

A warrior must be prepared
even in peaceful times.

So that when a war
does break out

he is ready to go to battle
for the country.

Oh? Who did you say
you'd work for?

For the county,

which means I plan to work
on your behalf.

That's very sensible.

Build a big castle that will be
the cornerstone of Ou.

Thank you, sir.

How are the residential plots
allotted?

Excuse me?

How much land do the
warriors get?

I haven't decided.

That's strange.

Pardon me?

Our investigation shows
2,000 tsubo for warriors

with income of
more than 1,000

and 1,000 for warriors
who earn more than 500.

Did you send your spy?

It's not good for you
to conceal things from me.

I just slipped my mind.

I must also allot plots in Edo...

to the daimyo lords
for their mansions.

Sir Ieyasu will
soon move to Edo

and will rule the country
from there.

That's wonderful.

You make the
eastern warriors proud.

The Date mansion will be
in Sakurada.

I have to give you
a large mansion

befitting your income.

Thank you, sir.

Even though you're building
a castle in Sendai,

your family must live
in Edo.

- As you please.
- You, too.

You can't go home
until I permit it.

If I may say so,

I'm in the middle of
building a castle.

Don't worry.

According to my
investigation

the construction
is going well

under your vassals'
able supervision.

I appreciate you coming
here swiftly on my orders.

Your wife must be
eager to see you.

Date Mansion, Fushimi

Welcome home.

I am happy to see you
looking so well.

I'm sorry for the hardship
you went through.

I thought I'd never see you
alive again.

We relied on Lady
Kita no Mandokoro's mercy.

I also praise Sadatsuna's
judicious actions.

That's good.
I'll remember to praise him.

Say hello to your father.

Welcome home.

Come here.

Come.

You've grown.

Is the Sendai Castle finished?

Right now we're building
the stone wall.

We're moving big stones
and lumber

all the warriors and peasants
are working very hard.

Hirose River, a beautiful river
runs by the castle

and we have to build
a large bridge

that connects the town
and the castle.

I want to see the castle.

Oh?

Please take me to
the castle in Sendai.

All right. Be good and
obey your mother's orders.

Princess, Sir Toragikumaru,
this way.

All right, I'll see you later.

How was Sir Tokugawa?

About the Tadachika Waga
incident?

No admonishment at all.

- That was good.
- But in exchange...

I lost the one million stipend.

At least you have your life.

The gods abandon me at
the most inopportune times.

The taiko chased me out of
Aizu after I subjugated it,

Ieyasu won't give me the
one million he promised.

I've been working hard
with nothing to show for it.

It's like I'm losing in a game
of snakes and ladders.

Just when I'm about to finish,
I'm back at the start.

Please don't lament.

There's more fun in
continuing to play.

Don't try to comfort me.

I've been ordered to stay.

To stay?

I was told not to venture
east of Fushimi...

when I'm in the midst of
building my dream castle.

I have to
twiddle my thumbs here.

I'm here in Fushimi.

Toragiku and Iroha, too.

We've been hostages
for so long

unable to go back home

and we've been counting
the days until your arrival.

- Mego...
- I know...

how important castle building
is for warriors.

However...

I am happy you are
obliged to stay.

I want to always be with you.

My lord.

I've been waiting for you.

You're looking well.

This is Gonpachiro.

He's sleeping.

He looks very smart.

- A good son.
- Thank you.

Gonpachiro.

Gonpachiro.

We have to have a belated
celebration.

Come, come see
Hidemune, too.

Hidemune.

Your father is here.

It's been a long time.

Welcome home.

- I am happy...
- You've been well?

Yes.

What's the matter?
Look at me.

What happened to you?

- I'm sorry.
- Who did this to you?

Hidemune tried to tame
an unruly bronco and fell.

Fool!

What if you break your neck?

I apologize again.

Here.

Hidemune loves
martial arts like you

and he is getting better with
a sword and bow and arrow.

How about scholarship?

Please don't worry.

Hidemune is versed in
the Chinese classics,

also in poetry

and is praised by his teachers.

I'm not asking you.

That's great.

You have my praise.

Thank you.

Since Hidemune is
Date's eldest child

I ask you to arrange
an audience with Sir Tokugawa

as soon as possible.

This is not the right time.

That's strange.

The taiko gave him a letter
from his name

and he has an imperial rank.

It would be discourteous
not to ask for an audience.

- Stop meddling.
- I'm not.

What are you scheming?

How can you say that?

I'm so disappointed.

But Hidemune is different.

I won't let Date's eldest child
be disrespected.

You said you will decide
the heir

based on the character
of the child.

Don't be tedious.

No, I ask you again.

What are your plans
for Hidemune's engagement?

I haven't thought about that.

How cold.

I had plans to receive
Hideiye Ukita's daughter.

But, he sided with Mitsunari
Ishida and the clan perished.

It's a good example of
haste makes waste.

Then how about a daughter
from the Tokugawa family.

It's not that easy.

Why?

Princess Iroha is about to
marry into the Tokugawa.

That may not happen.

Ieyasu is displeased with me.

Iroha's engagement will
probably be annulled.

Oh my!

Ieyasu...

Ieyasu...

Masamune secretly visited
Tsunamoto Moniwa's mansion

and met Lady Ko.

Are you well?

Thank you.

Sir Tsunamoto and all
the Moniwa family

are treating us very well.

You're well behaved,
Matajiro.

Thank you.

I'm sorry I can't see him
in public

although he is my child.

Forgive me.

I want you to do
something for me.

I'm happy to oblige.

Take Matajiro and leave
Fushimi for Sendai.

Go see Tsunamoto.

He is the caretaker
lord of Sendai Castle.

Are we in your way?

That's not so.

Ieyasu is displeased with me
and I am confined here.

My family and I won't be able
to return home for some time.

Is that so?

You and Matajiro are the
only ones

who can leave Fushimi.

Who knows what will happen.

If the worst happens,

I want at least one of my
children to survive.

If the Date clan perishes

Matajiro would remain to
restore the clan one day.

I understand.

Thank you.

This sword will prove
his identity.

Towards the end of the year,

Lady Ko and Matajiro
left for Sendai.

New Years, 1602.

Masamune visited Osaka Castle
without Ieyasu's permission

and had an audience with
Hideyori Toyotomi.

I wish you a happy New Year
and take this opportunity

to extend my hopes
for the Toyotomi's prosperity.

Thank you.

Sir Masamune?

Your New Year's greeting...
Fushimi or Osaka first?

She's asking if you went to
Sir Ieyasu or Sir Hideyori first?

That goes without saying.
My master was the taiko.

So I couldn't go to
Sir Tokugawa

before coming to Sir Hideyori.

I applaud you.

But most of the lords

have forgotten their debt
to the taiko

and go first to Fushimi.

Who do they think
Hideyori is?

It is lamentable.

All the lords are spineless
and do as Tokugawa wishes.

That way their income
keeps rising.

I heard your increase
was only 20,000.

I don't know why but
he doesn't look kindly on me.

Why is that, I wonder?

Sir Date has backbone.

To put it plainly
he's a thorn in his side.

If he was given a million

Tokugawa must
watch his back.

How small.
So like Ieyasu.

I hear you are building
a huge castle in your fief.

Yes, it's larger than Edo
and Osaka castles.

Oh?
Rumor has it that

Sir Tokugawa will
stop the construction.

That's ridiculous.

If that's true,
I'm prepared.

What do you mean?

I'm prepared to go to war
with Sir Tokugawa.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Excuse me?

If you had joined Mitsunari

he would not have lost
to Ieyasu.

Unfortunately, Mitsunari
wasn't capable.

A ruler needs to embrace
both good and evil.

You mean Sir Tokugawa.

There's one person here too.

Forgive me.
I shouldn't have bragged.

Sir Masamune?

You've lifted my spirits.

Please come to Osaka
from time to time

and get to know Hideyori.

Thank you.

Sir Harunaga?
More sake.

Someone.

Why did you go see Sir Hideyori
without permission?

Fushimi Castle

Sir Tokugawa
reallocated lands

as Sir Hideyori's
representative.

I merely offered greetings
to the family head.

You don't understand
the position you're in...

I'm not under house arrest!

I didn't go east of Fushimi.

I resent having my every move
questioned.

The minister is very angry.

That's so unreasonable.

It's you who are being
unreasonable.

This is the Date way.

The lord is here.

As the head of
the Date family,

I'm here to offer our
New Year's greeting to you.

How old are you now,
Masamune?

I am thirty-six.

You're still a brat.

Excuse me?

Did Lady Yodo
badmouth me?

She was out of sorts.

She's so hard-nosed,
she's hard to control.

Will you go to war and
kill Sir Hideyori?

That would be breaking
my promise to the taiko.

Then why don't you
go to Osaka?

Insolence.

Are you giving orders
to the minister?

Shut up.

You said you would rule
based on moral principles.

I believe that means to
go through proper channels

and honor reason.

Although Sir Hideyori is
still young,

he will be
the kanpaku.

It's natural
I pay respect to him

as one who serves him.

Masamune.

Come closer.

What you say is correct.

Hideyori will eventually
become kanpaku.

But the world has changed.

No one can maintain
order in the country

without the help
of warriors.

It's a contest
of endurance.

Ieyasu finally visited
Osaka Castle in February

to wish Hideyori
a happy New Year.

But Lady Yodo and those
close to Hideyori

didn't alter their hardline
against Ieyasu.

Tokugawa is
unexpectedly lenient.

How can the winner of the
Battle of Sekigahara

be fooled by that Osaka vixen

and be at a loss
how to deal with her?

No, Sir Ieyasu is very shrewd.

While doing his duty
to Sir Hideyori

he's trying to get the favor
of the Imperial Court

and waiting for his chance.

What chance?

What?
I'll tell you.

Many of the Toyotomi
hereditary vassals

are abandoning Osaka Castle

and leaning towards
Tokugawa.

Eventually, Sir Hideyori
will have no one.

So he's slowly tightening
the noose around his neck?

He's the best schemer
in the country.

Even I can't hold
a candle to him.

Ieyasu intends to issue official
notices to the daimyo lords

to contribute to the building
of Nijo and Fushimi castles.

What?

Are we to provide
forced labor as well?

Of course. If we refuse
he'll consider us an enemy.

This is very inconvenient.

It will affect the construction
for Sendai Castle.

I'm not going to
stand for it.

We can't bow to
Ieyasu's harassment.

I agree.

Sending labor for Nijo
Castle can't be helped

but we can't delay the
construction of Sendai Castle.

We have to complete it
at any cost.

Yes, sir.

Already, Date's hereditary
towns of artisans are moving

from Iwadeyama to Sendai

and the castle town
is bustling.

Shigenobu, Tsunamoto
and other vassals

are united in going beyond
the call of duty.

I think we may be done
by summer.

I was almost killed three times
by the taiko.

He made me run around
in circles at his will.

I'm no longer a kid.

I'm not the Masamune
of old.

I'll preside over Oshu as its
king from Sendai Castle

and someday Ieyasu will get
his comeuppance

and kneel at my feet.

However

to demonstrate Tokugawa's
power to the country

Ieyasu began to build
daimyo mansions

around Edo Castle.

Hidemune.

Yes, sir.

I am sending you to Edo.

What?

Sir Ieyasu gave us
a splendid mansion.

We have to accept it
with thanks.

You're not sending him
as a hostage?

It can't be helped.

All the daimyo lords will
send hostages to Edo.

Are you forsaking Hidemune?

Fool.

Edo is the headquarters
of Tokugawa's 2.4 million fief.

Eventually it will exceed
even Kyoto in prosperity.

Then Sir Toragikumaru
will go to Edo, too?

No. Just Hidemune.

I don't like it.

Why must Hidemune be the
one to go?

Toragiku is still young.

He hasn't come of age.
He can't be my representative.

Then, I will go with him.

What?

As a mother, I can't bear
the thought of

Hidemune facing hardships
in an unknown land.

Don't worry.

Seibei, and many vassals
will accompany him.

He needs a parent to
raise him.

You have Gonpachiro.

Gonpachiro is my child.
So is Hidemune.

That goes without saying.

Even if you won't permit it,
I will go to Edo with Hidemune.

Don't be obstinate.

My lord.
My lord, please.

Please wait.

I won't be parted from
my child ever again.

If that happens,
I will kill myself.

Please.
Please allow me to go.

September.

Lady Neko, also known as
Lady Iizaka

accompanied Hidemune and left
for Edo taking Gonpachiro.

Osaka people
are too proud.

I told them I'll give Hideyori
a 600,000 income

but they are finding fault
with the arrangement.

Carrots for horses,
catnip for cats.

Catnip?

Bring Lady Yodo down.

- You mean kill her?
- No, no.

Entrap her with sexual charm.

Who will?

You, of course,
using your wiles.

That's ridiculous.

Why don't you tell her

you'll take charge of
Sir Hideyori and raise him?

- You're a clever man.
- Thank you.

But at sixty-one,
I'm too old for that.

If I wait patiently
without any fuss

a path will naturally
show itself.

I'm afraid I'm a bit
short-tempered.

Oh, then you'll seduce her?

Oh, please not that.

Then what are you
talking about?

Your magnanimity
allowed me to finish

Sendai Castle's construction.

So, I want your permission
to return home

to attend the completion
ceremony.

It's too early.

But Sir Date refrained from
building a castle tower.

That is out of respect
for you.

I know that.

I've sent my eldest child
Hidemune to Edo.

I will leave my heir
Toragikumaru in Fushimi.

Masamune.

Don't keep saying Sendai
so loudly.

If you have any respect
for me,

you would follow form
and to go to Edo first.

October.

Masamune accompanied
Ieyasu to Edo

and had an audience with
Ieyasu's third son Hidetada.

Date Mansion, Edo

How befitting as the home
of the Tokugawa clan.

All the daimyo mansions
are spacious,

they're just as good as
those in Fushimi.

I've finally figured out
Ieyasu's strategy.

He's going to set Hideyori up
as kanpaku

and confine him to Osaka
and save face for Toyotomi.

While on the other, he's
gathering the daimyos in Edo

to seize real power by showing
off military might.

So that's it.

If he establishes the seat of
government in Kanto

it's the second coming
of Sir Yoritomo.

No matter how you look at it,
Sir Ieyasu has the upper hand.

He's not very skillful

but while not going against
the laws of nature,

he knows when to push
and when to retreat.

He has keen insight.

He's not going to take
Japan by force

he's making it so that the
rule will come to him.

Stop admiring him.

If Ieyasu is thinking ahead,

I have to be two steps
ahead of him.

I agree.

If Ieyasu is creating
his capital in Edo,

I will create a capital
in Sendai.

Kojuro.
Shigezane.

If we have to go to war
with Ieyasu

the defense of Kakuda,
Shiroishi and Watari is key.

You're right.

I already have Akimitsu Ishida
in Kakuda Castle.

Therefore, I'll put you
in Shiroishi Castle.

And you will take over
Watari Castle.

My lord.

Are you dissatisfied?

Of course not.

I once abandoned my castle
and absconded.

I never imagined you'd
give me a castle again.

Well, Kojuro.

It is my pleasure.

I will do all I can to
obey your will.

Make haste and go to
your appointed fiefs.

And make the castle
doubly secure in my stead

and tighten the reins
of rule.

I will do as you wish.

I know what to do.

February 12, 1603.

The Imperial Court appointed
Ieyasu Tokugawa as shogun.

This meant that Ieyasu

whose aim was to establish
a samurai government

became Japan's de facto
power and authority.

On the other hand,

Ieyasu appointed
Hideyori Toyotomi

as his Lord Keeper
of the Privy Seal

married his granddaughter
Princess Sen to Hideyori

to reconcile with the
Osaka forces.

That summer,
Nagayasu Okubo

visited Masamune
at his Edo mansion.

Ieyasu had appointed
Nagayasu as chief retainer

to his sixth son Tadateru.

Sir Nagayasu is well versed
in the management

of gold and silver mines

and doubles as the
Sado Magistrate.

Is the Sado gold mines
still producing?

You can find gold and silver
anywhere in Japan.

The foreigners call Japan
the gold islands.

That's an overstatement.

Wherever I go, gold and
silver speak to me.

Here I am, Sir Nagayasu,
they say.

- Come dig me up quickly.
- That was some boast.

It's unfortunate that
there aren't many people

who know how to make
good use of them.

Almost none.

There was the taiko.

No, he was bad at it.

He should have attacked
Korea with gold and silver.

Using spears and swords
was stupidity itself.

In that respect, you are
an expert in using money.

When you were ordered
to Odawara

you piled your gift
of gold dust on a tray

and you theatrically scattered
it around the floor.

It made me feel so good.

- And what brings you here?
- Er?

He's asking why you're here.

Oh, excuse me.

By the shogun's orders,
I, Nagayasu

am here to arrange
Princess Iroha's marriage.

Iroha's marriage?

Yes, her marriage to
my master Sir Tadateru.

Oh, I thought that
had gone away.

Oh, my goodness.

The two families exchanged
engagement presents

and pledged eternal friendship
to each other 4 years ago.

You don't intend to break
your promise to the shogun

and annul the engagement?

Of course not.

Depending on your reply,
I am prepared to act.

Silence Nagayasu.

I've pledged eternal
friendship to the Tokugawa.

Yet he speaks of engagement

when he has put shackles
on me?

My lord.

Unless he permits me to
return to Sendai

I won't let Iroha marry.

Don't concern yourself
about that.

The shogun says that

you can go back to your
fief whenever you please

and as often as you please.

Is that true?

Yes.

August 1603.

Masamune happily
returned to Sendai Castle.

The castle was abuzz

at the long-awaited return
of their master.

Sendai Castle

The completion ceremony
and banquet

continued for several nights.

Like the Sendai pine
prosperity of the country

will not be limited
to a thousand generations

Masamune composed a poem

and changed the characters
for Sendai.

I won't limit Date's prosperity
to a thousand generations.

I've changed the characters
so it will last forever.

Prosperity forever.

Our lord took the characters
from a Chinese poem

about a hill overlooking
the town.

I see. It's auspicious.

Do you know the poem?

What? I have an idea.

Sendai means the hill where
the immortal wizard lives.

I see. That's great.

Congratulations.

- Congratulations.
- Congratulations.

I congratulate you also

on the marriage
of Princess Iroha.

Now that you'll be related
to Sir Tokugawa,

the clan will be even more
secure.

Although we'll be relatives
I'm not his vassal.

I agree.

Listen, everyone.

The castle construction
will continue.

We have to build
a second and third citadel,

widen the moats,
build a bridge over it and

build stone walls to create
the best castle in Japan.

We'll build shrines and temples
within the territory

and decorate them
so that they equal

those of Fushimi
and Momoyama.

We need to increase
our rice, gold and horses.

Many markets will attract
lots of people

and the town will bustle
just like Kyoto, Osaka and Edo.

I'm going to build
a grand metropolis here.