Original subtitles

By killing the Assistant Governor,

Nobunaga supposedly gained control of the lower four domains.

But, the situation was much more complicated.

I reality, he could not exercise full control.

It was divided amongst land of the nobles, temples,

shrines, local samurai, and large family clans.

And each of these groups influenced farmers and merchants.

Nobunaga was not yet a feudal lord,

but governors collected taxes from these groups...

and not directly from farmers or merchants.

Thus, the feudal lord's finances were complex,

and fiscally it was poised to be unstable.

As a result, when the lord's power diminished,

they were undermined by the powers beneath them.

Nobunaga had taken the first steps towards unification,

but there was still a long road ahead.

Nobunaga

Episode 10: "Domestic Strife"

Original Story & Screenplay: Tamukai Seiken

Music: Mori Kurodo

Original Subtitles TV Network Japan

Transcribed and Edited Subtitles Kame Fansubs

CAST

Oda Nobunaga OGATA NAOTO

Kicho KIKUCHI MOMOKO

Rui TAKAHASHI KEIKO

Ikeda Tsuneoki MATOBA KOJI

Shibata Gonroku TAKITA SAKAE

Shino TAKAGI MIHO

Jikai INAGAWA JUNJI

Sakuma Morishige HONGO KOJIRO

Louis Froez FRANK NEIL

Tokichiro NAKAMURA TOHRU

Takigawa Kazumasu SHIBA TOSHIO

Hayashi Michikatsu UTSUI KEN

Kano Zuiten HIRA MIKIJIRO

Producer: Yagi Masaji

Director: Komatsu Takashi

Kiyosu Castle

She won't speak to anyone?

Right.

She has been just sitting at the altar.

Her father died an unfortunate death.

It can't be helped for a while.

It's a nice day outside.

Ah, there's a pigeon's nest on top of the pine tree.

I once raised a baby crow that fell from a nest.

Everyone said crows brought misfortune.

But, it followed me everywhere I went.

Crows are actually very friendly.

Cheer up.

Dosan has just returned to the soil.

He will be reborn as something wonderful again...

and will watch over you.

If you grieve too much, he can't rest in peace.

Get out of this incense-laden room...

and enjoy the leaves that blow in the wind.

You'll feel much better.

I asked you to let me see my father one more time.

I regret that you didn't.

Don't tell me about vague rumors!

If there is mutiny in the air, find out who it is!

Forgive me, but the seed of mutiny is hard to trace.

But, in the middle of the night...

there are horses running back and forth...

between Nagoya and Suemori.

However, I am trying to find out why this is going on now.

Let me know before it is too late.

With Dosan gone, my treaty with Mino is finished.

If an internal dispute occurs now,

Mino and the Imagawa will jump at the occasion.

Nobutoki.

Your castle is beyond Nagoya and Suemori.

Keep a close watch on those areas.

My lord.

I will go to Suemori Castle to find out...

what is in the heart of Nobuyuki.

It's useless. You can't ask him that point-blank.

I can. If I see his face, I can see into his heart.

Reporting. Sir Sakuma Morishige is here to see you.

Let him in.

Zuiten.

Go to Suemori immediately and bring back an answer.

You may be beheaded depending on what is transpiring.

Yes. Then, I'll be going.

I apologize for the sudden visit.

You may have already heard this rumor,

but it is apparent that Sir Nobuyuki is very restless.

Restless because he is ill?

That may be, but he feels you are out to kill him.

Did you hear him say that?

He seems to be afraid of something.

Last night he called Hayashi...

and they were talking until late in the night.

Why does Nobuyuki think I am going to kill him?

I am not certain,

but he feels you are connected to the deaths...

of your uncle Nobumitsu and brother Kirokuro.

He also asked you about Atsuta recently...

I refused him through Mother about Atsuta.

I know that having Atsuta would make him happy,

but he knows I cannot do that as head of the Oda family.

Nobuyuki thinks you will eventually take all his land.

Please discuss all of this with him.

I need to ask Sir Sakuma a question.

What is it?

Are you asking the lord to patronize Nobuyuki?

I'm not saying that.

I just want him to give Nobuyuki some kind words...

when he is here to see him.

If he fears for his life, he won't come here to visit.

Or, are you suggesting that the lord visit him?

Tsuneoki, restrain yourself!

What do you mean?

Tsuneoki is afraid I'm being set up for a trap.

I Sakuma Morishige have been a servant of the Oda...

since your father's time.

If you doubt me, tell me to commit harakiri.

Don't look so upset.

Tsuneoki, apologize to Sakuma.

You went a bit too far. Just apologize.

Forgive me for my rudeness.

Isn't there any joyous news...

Sakuma.

Leave things concerning my brother to me.

Good work. I appreciate you for informing me.

Tsuneoki, get ready to go hawk hunting.

Now?

Right. I doubt if the mutiny will occur today.

This corridor is dirty!

First the death of the governor and then the assistant governor...

both might have been the work of my brother.

Then, the recent deaths of my uncle and Kirokuro.

Have they been from orders from the top or by coincidence?

And, they all possessed a lot of land, too.

What has happened to all of it thus far?

It all belongs to my brother.

My brother wants to monopolize Owari.

So, either you have to give him the land or fight him.

Next, he will be after my land and my life.

Or next, maybe it's you, Hayashi.

Then after that, it's you, Shibata.

Or, do you think I am wrong?

But, can he rise by taking his vassals' land?

My brother just wants it, no matter what!

He's not thinking that far ahead.

It may be a kind of illness.

Unless we join now, we may eventually be dead.

Let's talk this over with the lord.

Can't you see through him yet?!

I'm not saying this out of greed.

Now the peace treaty with Saito is gone.

If the head of the Oda is using this time to take...

the lands of his people, what is yet to come?

Before we are invaded, this must be settled!

I need to speak to you.

I told you not to come until you are called!

Forgive me.

Come in. What is it?

Kano Zuiten from Kiyosu Castle is here to see you.

Zuiten?

Yes.

Let him wait awhile.

Let's kill him and cause things to blow up.

Then my brother will know how we feel!

Why are you smiling?

What's so funny?

When you said you wanted to hawk hunt,

I knew you would be coming here.

What's so funny? It's a nice place to rest.

Yes, it is surely a nice place to rest.

What? Do you think I came here to see that woman?

No, not at all.

She is not a girl. She is a married woman.

She wouldn't be here.

Right.

You are being insolent. You had better find a wife soon.

I didn't know you were waiting here, my lord.

Please go to the other side.

They are all so inconsiderate.

Forgive me.

No, I came down here on my own.

I wanted to be in the sun on this clear day.

Her husband sided with Saito Dosan...

and was killed at Nagayama Castle.

So I took her back in.

Is that so?

My lord, please come into the residence to drink.

Please.

Thank you for coming.

Please have some tea.

I have heard of your misfortune.

I heard he sided with Dosan.

Yes.

Lord Dosan was a dear person to me.

I feel the same.

I will take revenge one day for sure.

Where are we going?

To Lady Rui's room.

First I need to speak with Nobuyuki.

Personally, I would like to see you killed,

but I am saving you for her sake.

Come to the altar.

Pardon me. I have brought him.

Enter.

You are safe here.

I heard that they are going to kill you.

Is that Nobuyuki's order?

That's right.

After I begged you,

why didn't you work to make them get along?

Forgive me.

You have supernatural powers.

Lady Rui...

Please smooth over their relations.

Then, I will give you anything you want.

Lady Rui, please listen to me.

They are not the brothers of younger days.

They are the lords of castles.

They both desire Owari for themselves.

Childhood fights are things of the past.

Now they are enemies.

Hatred based on greed spreads like wildfire.

There is no way of extinguishing it.

I would gladly give my life to prevent it.

Zuiten! You were here!

Forgive me.

Why are you here?!

Were you told to take my life?!

Nobuyuki!

It is rude of you to go to the altar...

and sit in an enclosed room with my mother! Be prepared!

Nobuyuki, I was the one who called Zuiten.

He is responsible for ruining the Oda.

Get out! The altar will be tainted! Get up!

Nobuyuki!

Zuiten, escape!

If you want more land, work with the lord...

and acquire lands from other domains.

Then you will get ten... no, a hundred times more land.

Even if you hate him, collaboration is the key.

Nobuyuki! Stop it!

Matsu! Get some men to help.

I will give you my life.

But, make amends with your brother.

And, take care of your mother.

I will kill you if you wish.

If you kill Zuiten, I'll kill myself.

I will kill myself on the spot.

Why would you kill yourself for this man?

Without Zuiten, I have no hope.

Don't tell me...

That's disgusting!

You want me to live and see my sons kill each other?

You ungrateful son!

What are you doing?!

I didn't give birth to you two so...

I can see you kill each other.

If that's the case, I would rather kill you myself...

and kill myself after that.

You ungrateful son!

I have never been hit by my mother,

but a mother's love is the same in Japan as in Europe.

I left my mother and family and set aside greed...

to serve the lord every day.

But I sometimes recall my mother at home.

My family was poor, so she suffered a lot.

But at the age of 14,

my religious mother offered me to the lord.

Yamaguchi

I hear this man was of humble origins, too.

But he was abandoned and has lived this life ever since.

Pray that he will know the lord.

Were you abandoned?

God, please save this child.

Please forgive his mother.

Jikai felt the presence of God that night.

Not much later,

another incident involving a relative occurred to Nobunaga.

Pardon me.

Ikeda Tsuneoki is here.

Let him in.

It's Tsuneoki.

Come in.

Your brother, Nobutoki,

was killed by his retainer Tsunoda at Moriyama Castle.

What? Nobutoki was killed?

It just happened, so I sent a messenger.

Will you go to battle?

Why was he killed?

I don't know. It seems like it was a sudden act.

It might be Nobuyuki's doing.

He wants Moriyama Castle to increase his holdings.

I guess he wants to take me on.

Tsuneoki. Have the men get ready for battle by tomorrow morning.

Hurry!

I'll see to it!

Send someone to watch Suemori Castle and Nagoya Castle.

I cannot let this go like this!

He killed Nobutoki. Now you know his intentions.

This is not a retainer's loss of his senses.

My brother instigated this.

We will be killed one-by-one and our lands taken.

Shibata. Make up your mind.

I already have.

I have land to protect.

I cannot allow the lord to act in this manner.

A warrior is useless without his land.

A warrior without land is not a warrior.

He wants to monopolize everything for himself.

We can't keep him as the head of the Oda.

It's time for battle.

Every minute counts.

How many men can we gather?

Not very many. Our envoys are still searching.

That will take too much time.

There is nobody here.

Lord, please be seated.

The battle hasn't begun.

Naito. Even if Nobutoki was killed by his retainer,

there is still Nobuyuki behind him.

What would be the first thing you would do?

It would be to take Moriyama Castle.

I need to get there and close the gates...

before Moriyama Castle is taken over by him!

Lord, I think your doubts are going too far.

It was Nobutoki's retainer Tsunoda that killed him.

It may have nothing to do with Nobuyuki.

You would think they are not connected.

Can't you see what Nobuyuki is up to?

Nobuyuki is afraid of you.

He thinks you are after his life.

That is an excuse to attack me.

No, somewhere in your heart you despise him.

Why would I despise Nobuyuki?

Because you two are competing.

That's ridiculous! Nobuyuki is not even a match!

Then don't even bother with it this time.

He is a brother to you, no matter what.

Stepping on a brother who is weak is useless.

If you kill a powerless brother, people will laugh.

Think of how your mother will grieve.

Wait until he makes a move.

If he should ever go against you,

I, Naito Katsusuke, will lead the army to fight him.

Treat a rumor like a rumor.

It may be part of an evil scheme.

Rumors of mutiny are not mere rumors.

This arm is evidence.

I don't know how you got that.

You may have been rude to Nobuyuki.

Sir Naito, trust me.

Nobuyuki will be making his move shortly.

There is no way of stopping that.

Zuiten. I hope you are not part of this evil scheme.

I will not take that even from you.

Don't get carried away. I have heard things.

What do you mean?

Nothing at all.

What have you heard? Tell me.

It's about his insolent behaviors.

That's not what it seemed like.

Zuiten. What kind of rumors are being heard about you?

I have many bad rumors going on.

I don't know what he is talking about.

Remember this, betrayal is unforgivable.

I will behead anyone who betrays me.

Do you understand?

Nobuyuki is no longer my brother.

Get ready for battle!

Isn't there a way to prevent this?

Kill Nobuyuki!

Take Nobuyuki's head!

Sir Nobuyuki, please retreat!

The enemy is near! Now hurry!

I won't lose to my brother!

Follow me!

Our defeat is inevitable.

Sakuma Morishige and many others have switched loyalties.

Please retreat!

Follow me!

Sir Nobuyuki!

Sir Nobuyuki!

Don't move and wait here.

Brother.

Brother.

Get a hold of yourself! Don't die.

Brother...

Mimasaka...

Did the lord retreat?

He went out to battle. Have him return.

We can't win this battle.

Keep fighting! I can't lose to Nobunaga!

Please give the signal for retreat!

Don't!

Sir Nobuyuki, this is as far as we should go. Let's retreat!

I refuse!

Give the signal for retreat!

Don't retreat!

The two brothers finally went to battle out of hatred.

The result was a victory for Nobunaga.

Was it that Nobunaga's hatred was greater?

Or, was his existence farther away from God?

That day, his mother Rui came to ask for forgiveness.

Little did she know that a bigger tragedy lay ahead.

So everybody, until next time...

To be continued.

To be continued.