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ANKAN-JI TEMPLE

- There is no food no matter how hard you look.

Hey, who are you?

You came in without asking for permission.

You must be a temple burglar.

Bastard!

Ouch!

THE HOODLUM PRIEST (Yakuza Bozu)

Planning by: OKUDA Hisashi Screenplay by: TAKAIWA Hajime

Photography by: MORITA Fujio Sound Recording by: HAYASHI Tsuchitaro Lighting by: KATO Hiroya Art Direction by: KATO Shigeru

Music by: WATANABE Chumei Editor: YAMADA Hiroshi Fight Choreography by: MIYAUCHI Shohei Assistant Director: OTA Akikazu Production Chief: YOSHIOKA Toru Film Processing: TOYO LABORATORY LTD.

Cast

KATSU Shintaro

NARITA Mikio OGAWA Mayumi MIKIMOTO Kayo KUBO Naoko

TATARA Jun KOMATSU Hosei WATANABE Fumio GOMI Ryutaro YAMAMOTO Ichiro KANAUCHI Yoshio

SUGIYAMA Shosaku TAMAKI Kazue HORIKITA Yukio SHIGA Akira ISHIHARA Sumao KATSUMURA Jun FUJIKAWA Jun YABUUCHI Takeshi NISHIOKA Hiroyoshi

YAMAOKA Eijiro KIKUNO Masayoshi TOMURA Masako OSUGI Jun KUROKI Gen IWATA Tadashi SANTO Yorie SENGOKU Taizo BAN Yutaro KAGAMI Kenichi HIGASHIYAMA Teruyo TANIGUCHI Kazuko

Directed by: YASUDA Kimiyoshi

- I will end your suffering soon.

Here!

- My body is honest. Now it is in top condition.

- That is too sad.

- I didn't know that Ryuzen was a good chicken catcher.

- I am really great at catching women.

- Women? With a face like that?

Are you really a priest?

- I stole a chicken and enjoy sake while eating it.

I committed three sins out of five major sins.

So it is not really a big deal to add womanizing and lying.

- You should speak more carefully.

You are still the head priest of this Ankan-ji Temple.

Don't look that way.

- But Gonroku-san, there are no parishioners or funerals.

Only thing we would get is caring for deserted dead bodies for nominal fees.

I would not have come into this temple

if I knew that this place was so shabby.

- Don't ask too much!

You should be grateful that you can take shelter from the rain.

- There are only a limited number of chickens we can catch.

Gonroku-san, shall we do it?

- Do what?

- Make money.

- We have no seed money.

- Even little kids can make money... if they have seed money.

- There is not such easy business.

- Well, there is.

We have many empty dirty rooms.

If we charge only half of what those love hotels get, we will have lots of business.

Young people are curious about new things,

so they will come to experience hot love affairs in a temple building.

Then we will charge other customers a fee

to let them peep from the next room.

- Stop your silly joking.

- No, no I am not joking.

And that is not all. We may be able to extort money from some of those people.

This is like killing three birds with one stone.

- What if the temple and shrine magistrate finds out?

They will take over the temple and we will be executed by crucifixion.

- Hello!

- What is it?

- Hey, no one here?

- Ryuzen, funeral! A funeral just came in!

- That's silly.

- What are you saying? This is a temple.

- That's right.

- This is a shabby temple!

- That does not really matter as long as Janome gets tricked.

Is everything ready? - Yes, it is.

- Are you the chief mourner?

- Yes, I am.

- I am sure these are not normal deaths.

- I don't need your lecture. Just begin the funeral service.

- Hey Shoten, we will pay you back now.

- Janome, you were tricked.

- What?

- We were expecting you. This is a trap.

- Damn! Kill them!

- Let's go back!

- Hey, wait.

- The funeral is done now.

- You may be done with it, but we are not done with it yet.

What about an offering?

- Huh?

Damn, here!

- And leave a few young gang members for clean up.

- Hey, help him.

- Yes.

- You are quite a man!

- They become impudent if you behave modestly.

- But that is Shoten. You wouldn't get away with it for a long time.

- I want to tell him the same thing.

Well "Good deeds should be done quickly," no...

"Evil deeds should be done quickly."

- Where are you going?

- You just wait. You will like it.

- So Janome was killed?

- Where did you hear that?

- From Shoten's relative.

We could get by because Janome and Shoten were competing.

Now Shoten has all.

He will do whatever he wants. He will be greedy and unreasonable.

What do we do?

- That is a big problem.

Damn! Ignorance is bold...

- What's the matter?

- You would never know.

Hashi and Tora used to be such a pain in the neck when they were alive.

But as soon as they died, the territory became ours.

The credit is all theirs!

- Boss, don't you think that priest is too annoying?

- We will have a funeral service for him someday in the future.

- That is a priest's duty.

- What are you doing here?

- The offering was not enough, so I came to collect.

- Are you complaining?

- Yes, I am.

You must make at least 80 or 100 ryo a month from this territory.

You were too stingy to give me only 3 ryo.

- What are you saying?

- If you can manage to pay the half,

I would negotiate with Buddha to let you into heaven.

How about it?

- Bastard!

You will regret if you treat me like Janome.

- I just came to talk.

- What have you done!

- There, you too.

- I won't tell! I won't tell that they were killed.

- Stop it! Do you have any money?

TOMOE-YA - Stop it! Do you have any money?

TOMOE-YA

- Thank you very much.

Thanks to you, all of us in this neighborhood are relieved.

This is a small token of my appreciation.

I will collect more from others later for you.

- What do you say, Ryuzen?

- I shall gratefully accept your offering.

- I will keep this for you.

- Then please enjoy tonight. I will send some women in.

- Hey master! - Yes, what is it?

- If you are sending some woman...

I saw a pretty one.

- Ah... You mean Otatsu...

She is not good, She is very selfish.

You never know what she would do when she does not like the customer.

You may be offended.

- I am really good at letting those kind of women attain "Buddhahood."

- Really?

Then I will send her, but please don't get upset.

Excuse me. I will send them immediately.

- You are so outrageous.

You forgot about what you just did a moment ago.

- Gonroku-san, you must watch your language when you are outside.

You are a sexton

and I am the head priest.

That's what we are supposed to be.

- Good evening. - Ah! Welcome.

- Here, sit here!

Hey, sit here!

- It is fine here.

- What did your master tell you?

- I've disliked priests and yam potatoes since I was a child.

- That's sheer prejudice.

- Huh? I don't think so.

- Yes. Yam potato has a strange texture, but try eating it.

It is delicious.

And it makes you vigorous.

- Ryuzen disgraced himself.

- I will make her attain Buddhahood sometime. It just takes money.

Women and money are our enemies in this world.

I would love to be with our enemies!

- Money is important

but you should do something about your beggar's hairstyle first.

Are they...

- Thank you for your hard work.

I am not quoting Ishikawa Goemon, but there are always thieves in this world.

- And you think you are a virtuous man?

How can you call yourself a priest?

- If you don't like it, please leave the temple.

- You kidding?

I started living at Ankan-ji Temple first.

But the priest and cemetery are the temple's main draw.

That's why I am letting you stay!

Hey! Hey! Don't sleep there.

I will prepare bedding.

- Be quiet!

I escaped from the prison island.

I will let you live if you stay quiet.

Bring some food and some money.

Move!

- You are the one who should be quiet.

- What?

I will not show any mercy because you are a priest.

I broke out from prison!

- Why were you sent to prison?

- Murder.

- How many?

- How many...

- Did you kill like 100?

- Killing men is not that easy!

- Don't act big!

Huh? So you killed one man?

- That's right!

- Feed him some leftovers and let him sleep in the barn.

- Ryuzen! Hey!

Well I'll be....

You don't look too bad now.

- I kept hair to keep women away.

- You are conceited.

You might as well make it a more priest-like hairstyle.

- What did you want?

- A dead body was left.

- Dead body?

- 200 mon was left with it.

- Let that prison breaker help you.

- Damn, you make me work too hard.

- I am handing you the body so catch it there.

- In here? Do I have to?

- If you don't want to do it...

Go tell the police about the prison break...

- I will do it!

I should not have come in here.

It is a heavy body.

- It started to decompose.

- Yes it smells bad.

- Ah..!!!

- Idiot! You must treat a dead body with more respect.

- But...

- You shouldn't be peeping. This is our business.

- It seems that we have enough customers.

- We had three couples and 14 peepers.

Look! Look!

- What was the most interesting couple?

- Yukiya's wife hooked up with this actor, Bando Senjuro.

- Yukiya, the merchant? - Yes.

- Oh!

Are you alone tonight?

- Yes. Do you feel better today?

- Well, I don't know.

- You should get rid of your prejudice.

- You...

You are not too stuffy for a priest.

Where were you born?

- I don't know.

- You don't know your hometown?

Ah, you were an orphan?

- Yes. You are right.

- Where did you grow up?

- In Joshu.

- How?

- How...

Everyone grows bigger as time goes by.

- That's not true. You were a baby. Someone had to take care of you.

- Hey, you should be grateful to me for allowing you so patiently...

Usually, at a place like this,

a customer listens to the woman's life story.

This is the other way around.

- What's wrong with that?

- I feel the same. It is good to be the other way around sometimes.

I also want to know about you.

- Damn, what is that samurai?

- I don't know.

Hey, have you really been a priest since you were a child?

- The head priest of a temple took care of me, so I had no choice.

- When did you become a priest like that?

- Are you the depraved priest, Ryuzen?

I heard that you started an outrageous business using the temple

including extortion.

- Who are you?

- We are from the Daihachi family of Igeta.

We will extend our territory to this red-light district in the near future.

- I have nothing to do with that.

- This is the message from our boss.

Which do you prefer, leaving the temple or leaving this world?

- I don't like either choice.

- Damn!

- Men like you will never attain Buddhahood.

- Shut up. Do your chanting in hell!

- Hey, it is priest's duty to conduct a funeral service too.

- Sensei!

- Don't be hasty.

- You broke the agreement.

- Ah, you were a pet dog of the yakuza.

- You are too interesting to kill. I'll let you live for now.

- Ha! Otatsu, let's start drinking again.

Do you know Daihachi of Igeta?

- Igeta?

- They raided me last night.

- Really?

- They are trying to kill me, I think.

- Be careful. You have been too outrageous.

By the way, what happened to the money we extorted from Yukiya?

- I spent it all for Otatsu.

- Why did you do that?

- Don't get so upset for small money like 5 or 10 ryo.

- 5 or 10 ryo? Hey!

- Once we open the gambling hall, we will make a lot of money.

- Gambling hall in the temple?

- Yes. We will do it in the temple.

- If they catch you, you won't be joking.

- Get out, if you don't like it!

- Get out?

- Gonroku!

- What?

- Who has been buying you all the sake you have been drinking?

- You are buying... - What?

- Well, thanks to you...

- Say it louder!

- Thanks to Ryuzen-san.

- It is all right, as long as you know it.

- Move!

- Gambling hall? He is an outrageous priest!

- The sexton is telling everyone about it.

- Boss, we should crush him soon.

- He is just a priest. Let him be for a while.

- Place your bet now!

= Odd! Even!

- Now, we are ready.

- Game!

- 3-6 odd!

= Ah! - I won.

- Please let me play.

- Yes. Please.

- Place your bets.

Everyone ready?

Here we go.

- Even.

- We have "even." Anyone for odd? Anyone for odd?

Place your bet now. Anyone betting on odd?

Place your bet!

Anyone betting on odd? Place your bet!

- It seems this game is for just you and me.

- It seems so.

Would you take it?

- Priest!

- I will take it... gladly.

- Please.

- Game!

5-2 odd.

Then I will accept this offering gratefully.

- That's amazing.

- This is the lucky coin.

- We are closing now.

Please come back tomorrow night.

Come back tomorrow.

Who was that woman?

- She is probably Igeta's...

- She is Igeta's mistress as you have guessed.

- So you were still here.

- Shake those dice again in front of me.

- Why?

- If I can trust my eyes...

- You think it was foul play?

- I am telling you to shake again.

- No, it is not for a show.

- Are you afraid that your deceit will be detected?

- What?

- I would not force you.

- Fine, I will do it.

- If you fail, I will cut you to death.

- That's interesting.

- Priest...

- I say it will be 3-6.

Game!

- I definitely lost tonight.

But I will be back for sure.

- Some people are past praying for.

- Stop it!

- Let me go!

- Calm down.

It would be such a waste for a young girl. Why do you want to die?

- Gonroku-san...

- Come on, we will take care of you. Come this way.

- What are you going to do to that girl?

- Why did you sign the contract knowing that you would be

sold to a red-light district?

- I wanted to cure my father's illness.

I could buy some ginseng with 10 ryo.

I thought I could save my father with that.

- But your father died and the debt remained.

- And the amount on the contract was increased to 30 ryo.

- 30 ryo?

- There are some evil people in this world!

- But it is all right.

Although my father died,

I did the best I could do.

- What about your mother?

- I have a legal mother, but I don't want to go back to her.

- You don't want to go back?

- She is my father's second wife.

- Mother bullying step-daughter... That's not unusual.

- Where is that loan shark, Jinbei?

- Otsuru? Where is she?

- She is at the temple.

- Really?

Thank you very much for telling me.

You go with him.

- I have something I want to ask you.

- What is it?

- She said that she borrowed only 10 ryo, but the contract says 30 ryo now.

- She is outrageous!

Please let us take her.

I will give you a reward later.

What temple is this?

- Do you have the contract?

- Of course, I do.

- Let me see it. Priests are strict about these things.

- This is it.

- Thanks for your time. - Hey, what are you doing?

- I am going back.

- Stop joking! Give me the contract back.

Hey get it!

- If you have any complaints, make a formal appeal!

It is obvious by the color of ink you added the # 3 to make it 30 ryo instead of 10 ryo.

You must have done the same thing to all those contracts in that box.

- No, never!

- Now you are free for the rest of your life.

- I will never forget your kindness.

- It is a priest's duty to help people.

- But you have done so much for me...

- You feel obligated?

- Yes.

- I will let you thank me.

Come on.

- Priest!

- If she was sold to the red-light district,

she would have to please many men in one night.

It is so much better for her that she has to please only one man.

- Priest, she doesn't know anything yet.

- So I am going to teach her.

- I knew something was fishy from the beginning.

- What's the matter?

Do you have a stomach pain or something?

Where is the priest?

Priest! Priest!

Ah! What's wrong?

Oh, priest!

- What is it? I was on duty.

Now you can go anywhere you like.

- Igeta came with many of his henchmen yesterday afternoon.

And they forcefully bought out 7 or 8 shops

and changed the interiors right away.

- So they finally came in.

- Yes.

Overnight they prepared to start business.

Now they are gathering women.

Of course we wouldn't complain about them starting business.

But Igeta came in today

and he told us that the town is their territory now,

so every shop in town has to pay 3 ryo to him every day.

- That's outrageous!

- This red-light district does not make that much profit. If they take 3 ryo every day,

we can't stay in business.

We were relieved that Shoten and Janome were gone, but the relief did not last long.

Now we have to deal with Igeta.

I am wondering if you would negotiate with Igeta.

- I wish I could help, but I don't want to kill anymore.

Besides, that red-light district is under the control of the temple and shrine magistrate.

You should appeal to the temple and shrine magistrate.

- We already have appealed.

But they would not listen.

Igeta has cajoled the temple and shrine magistrate already.

So you are the only hope for us now.

This is from all of us.

- Priest, you should help them out.

Igeta will try to dominate sooner or later.

- He is resourceful enough to cajole the temple and shrine magistrate,

I can't handle him.

- Priest...

- So he won't help us...

- Don't be discouraged.

I will ask him again later.

I will keep this for now.

- Thank you for your help.

UDON + SOBA NOODLES

UDON +SOBA NOODLES - Three more orders. - Yes, yes.

UDON +SOBA NOODLES

Ah, damn!

- Raid!

- You all must go!

= What happened?

- Be quiet!

- Don't let anyone escape!

Hurry!

- How can I help you?

- Someone reported that gambling has been taking place at this temple every night.

- How outrageous!

As you can see, all these religious people are gathered here for prayer.

That is an unfounded report.

- You say that was an unfounded report...

Hey you!

What were you doing here?

Hey! Tell me.

Fine, I will execute you someday.

Don't forget!

- Everyone, please refrain from the activity for a while.

This is all for tonight.

- I was so panicked I left all of my money.

- I left my wallet.

- As you can see, it is such chaos here,

so please just leave now.

- But...

- It is in the cloth the priest used to wrap everything.

- I threw that into the well.

So it is at the bottom of the well now. Isn't that right, Gonroku?

- Yes. - That's not right.

= That is outrageous!

- You people don't understand.

If you were caught then, you would have to go to prison

and have to live as ex-cons the rest of your lives.

You can't get away for 5 or 10 ryo.

So you should just leave tonight.

- Please! Please!

Who tipped off the police?

- Igeta did.

- Please wait!

I will manage to get the money by tonight.

- Be quiet.

We waited until the time you promised. Get lost!

- Ah, priest!

- It's you again, damn priest!

- I just wanted to thank you for last night.

Take me to Daihachi.

= Beat them up!

- Tell Daihachi that I will be visiting soon!

- Damn!

- You were not just an ordinary priest.

Ah! Watch out!

I walked with you far enough.

- You came this far, you should stay at the temple tonight.

- Temple? It is not sexy at all.

- So you are going to walk back alone in this rain?

- It is creepy walking back alone.

- You were going to stay with me to begin with.

- You say whatever you like.

You are going to get wet.

- If we are going to get wet, let's get wet at the main hall in the temple.

We will be going to the land of perfect bliss.

What are you doing here? You came back?

- Good night.

- Hey!

- You are better off with that immature girl.

- Hey, what are you doing?

- Hey Otsuru-san,

why did you come back?

I am telling you this for your sake. You should leave when you can.

If you wait too long, you will be destroyed.

- Priest, it is urgent!

- Don't get panicked just because a few men are on a stakeout outside.

- So you knew about them?

- Who cares about a stakeout by scum.

But customers are scared and stopped coming.

I will teach them a lesson soon.

- That's impossible.

We are up against the temple and shrine magistrate. We don't want to lose our lives.

Now is the time to close the business.

- Gonroku,

you are mistaken if you think I would quit with a minor interruption like this.

If the enemy has two pairs, we will come up with three of a kind.

That's how I am. We will win as long as we have the better hand.

- Are you still planning something new?

- Damn, of course I am.

We haven't even started.

Gambling and prostitution are inseparable things.

It is just like the relationship between a doctor and a priest.

It is a give-and-take mutually advantageous relationship.

I have decided to take tons of money from that red-light district.

- So you are going to confront Igeta?

- No.

The one whom I will defeat is the man behind Igeta.

- What do you mean?

- The government official is turning a blind eye to the red-light district

being openly operated where the temple and shrine magistrate has control...

that is fishy.

- Are you going to fight against a government official? You shouldn't do that.

- You don't need to be afraid.

If I can reveal him, Igeta would be like a fish out of water.

- Priest, what are you going to do about that girl?

She says that she doesn't want to go home.

- She came back of her own free will.

But I only do it once with any woman.

- That is too cruel to her.

- Get her if you like.

- That's outrageous.

You could talk to her nicely.

What's the matter?

Ah, just a rat! I set a trap.

Serves you right!

It is a fat one.

- How vexing about that priest beating you out of 30 ryo!

- Who was boasting

that any man would be easily controlled after showing your thigh?

- Well, I want to face him one on one next time.

- You'd better not.

He is not just a regular priest.

- I will teach him a lesson some day.

- I heard that he is quite a lady's man.

- That priest? You must be joking.

- He will not be strutting around for too long.

- I am not so sure about that. He has been overpowering.

- You just wait and see.

I will destroy that temple and extend our red-light district there in the near future.

- I will look forward to it without much expectation.

Ah! Welcome.

- Come in.

- Please come this way.

Please make yourself at home.

- This is what I promised.

- That priest is tough. It is hard to catch him out.

- There is no choice other than killing him.

- Right. The sooner the better.

He will be a big obstacle in the future if we leave him be.

- That priest is not the only enemy.

Hayate no Ihachi is also hovering.

- That's right.

We should get rid of him with the priest soon, or I will be in danger.

- You got involved with quite a fellow.

- It is a troublesome connection.

I should have sent him to the gallows that time.

- Kondo-san!

Ah, it is Kondo-san as I thought.

A police constable and a red-light district...

It is like a riddle solved.

- I don't need to hear your nonsense!

- Is that right?

This shop is run by Igeta, isn't it?

And you are patrolling with your hood up.

Thank you for your industrious service.

- Move!

Go! = Yes.

- Priest, what are you doing here?

- I just met someone interesting. Guess who.

The temple and shrine magistrate's constable, Kondo.

- Kondo?

- He just came out from Igeta's shop.

- Really?

I thought something was suspicious...

TSUKINO-YA

- Otatsu came back very upset.

- We had an unexpected interruption. Is she still upset?

- She is all right now. I calmed her anger.

- Thanks.

- Enjoy.

- Here.

- What did Kansuke say to you?

- You must know what he said.

- Damn, he is meddling.

- He says you are the only one he can depend on.

- No one can make you accept doing what you don't want to do.

- I have been trying to accept...

- Hey, you are really nice to me today.

- You are hasty.

- Yes. You may change your mind.

- Once I decide, I don't change my mind easily.

But it will be expensive for you.

- All right. Here.

- Have you seen Sanji?

- He ran off with Otsuru last night.

- Huh?

- As might be expected of a prison breaker, he took money with him.

- Ah!

Thief!

- Thief?

It was not your money to begin with.

You have been pinching my money.

- But, priest...

Otsuru is stupid to be allured by a man like him.

He will sell her to some whorehouse.

Damn!

- Otsuru may be the one who allured him.

- Huh?

- Help!

- Damn!

- Please let me go!

- Damn, I will not let you escape!

- This man took my money!

- Damn you!

- Help!

The man is the prison breaker, Sanji. He took me by force.

- What? = Wait! Wait!

- You bitch! Don't forget about this!

- So you insist on not withdrawing?

- You are persistent.

I'll never withdraw until I get that red-light district.

- You are a strange priest.

- I don't think I am that strange.

- You violated not only the five major sins, but also other sins without any scruples.

And you did it smartly.

- You don't need to compliment me.

I just have my own way of living.

Helping people in small ways doesn't mean anything. But if I crush big evil,

I will make money and help people too.

- That's some logic.

Is it called teachings of "Demon" Ryuzen?

- It doesn't matter.

What is the relationship between you and Igeta?

You are not just his bodyguard.

There must be something beyond that. Something...

- Don't be nosy.

- You are threatening me now?

- Nothing would threaten you.

- That's right. I would not give in at all.

I will take apart Igeta and Kondo.

I may have to take you apart too.

- So I will have to kill you.

- Yes, for money?

- Not only for money.

- Priest...

- I wouldn't let him.

- Ah, Kondo-san.

The head priest of Ankan-ji Temple wants to see you.

- What?

- I met you last night at a most unexpected place.

- Either you are a complete moron or a deranged hoodlum.

- Those were harsh words.

- What did you come here for?

- I came here for a favor...

maybe it is more like a discussion.

Let's be straightforward.

You can't avoid drawing suspicion

when a government official of the temple and shrine magistrate

frequently visits the red-light district at night.

But I, Ryuzen, would never talk about that from now on,

if...

- What?

- Please overlook Ankan-ji Temple as well.

- Shut up! Where do you think this is?

This discussion is totally outrageous!

- Are you sure you want to speak so loudly?

If you refuse, I have no other choice.

- Ryuzen!

Our investigation of you is steadily going forward.

I was going to wait for concrete evidence to arrest you,

but you were stupid enough to show up yourself.

I'll arrest you now!

- Arrest me?

That's interesting. Go ahead, arrest me!

You go ahead and execute me by decapitation or crucifixion, whatever you like.

I wouldn't be a priest if I was afraid of dying.

But, hey!

I would not die alone.

I will tell everyone that you are in cahoots with Igeta

and I will bring you with me. So be prepared, bastard!

It is not enough to get just you.

Listen, all of your colleagues who have been taking bribes

from the red-light district to overlook their business will be taken with you!

Bastard!

Understood?

Hey, what is your answer?

- Wait.

I can't give you an immediate answer. I will answer you for sure.

- So you are going to talk with them?

Huh? All right.

I will be waiting at 6 o'clock in the evening at Ankan-ji Temple tomorrow.

I will be waiting!

It is all right as long as you understand.

6 o'clock in the evening, all right?

- Priest!

This is urgent. Please come with me!

- What's wrong?

- Please come with me anyway! Hurry!

I heard noise outside, then I saw two men come out from the shed.

- He is a very skilled killer. Can you think of anyone who might have done this?

- No.

What should we do?

The temple and shrine magistrate has been keeping a watchful eye on us.

If they find out that Kondo-san was killed here, they would suspect me.

My business will be closed for sure. This is a bad situation.

- I will send Gonroku later. Then bring the body to Ankan-ji Temple.

- Huh...

- I will take care of it.

- Really?

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

- Constable Kondo of the temple and shrine magistrate was murdered.

And it was done with one clean sword stroke.

- There must have been a reason for the killing.

- I see.

- I just don't want any other worthless fellow to kill you.

So stay away from the temple tonight.

- I gathered enough men.

- Good. I will settle it tonight for you too.

Where is the priest?

- Over there.

- He must be hiding somewhere.

Find him! = Yes!

- What is it?

You look as if you were seeing a monster or something.

- What did you come here for?

- Huh? Stay back it would be dangerous.

- What are you doing?

- You will soon know what I am going to do.

- What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Stop it!

Hey, stop it!

Please stop it!

What are you doing?

- I am breaking everything down and setting fire to it!

- Stop! Please stop!

- Igeta must be looking for me at the temple now.

Hey!

- We can't find him anywhere.

- Damn priest! He escaped.

- I knew this would happen since the first time we met.

- Then I didn't need to be so forceful.

- That is right. I have been waiting for this.

- Then would you take up with me instead of Igeta?

- Can I take that seriously?

I am becoming disgusted with that man.

- It is cruel to make me too happy.

- I am serious!

You know Hayate no Ihachi?

- He was executed three years ago.

- That is just in official records. The murdered Kondo-san saved him by using a double.

- That Kondo did that?

- Yes.

Igeta is just a puppet controlled by Ihachi.

- Then, what about that ronin, Kashiwa?

- He is Ihachi's bodyguard.

- Ah, they are back.

Thanks. - Dear!

Why did you do that?

- You were with that priest...

- How outrageous! I am a woman, what could I do?

Look what has happened. He got me too.

And I am disgusted with you now.

- What? - You talk but you can't do anything right.

It is a good opportunity for me to switch men.

- Where are you going?

- Wherever I want. Let me go.

- Wait!

- Daihachi, you are a useless man.

- Wait! Please wait!

- Does that man, Ihachi, really exist?

- Yes, he does.

And he is nearby.

- Nearby?

- Who would do this?

- Ihachi did it.

Ihachi tried to send me a message.

- Huh?

- Ihachi, you played a trick on me.

Why did you kill Oen?

- That's the rule.

Ryuzen, do you want to team up with me?

- Are you asking me to take part in your business

after I found out your true identity?

- Like a really bad hoodlum, you found out.

- I won't take it. One really bad hoodlum would be enough.

- What?

- Either I disappear...

or you disappear...

- Is that right?

Then I ask you to disappear.

I never thought that I would be telling a priest to prepare for his death.

- Igeta, kill him!

I spared your life for this purpose.

- Sensei! Kashiwa!

- It was a priest's duty to prepare someone's death after all.

- Damn!

- Priest!

- Gonroku, you'll be in charge of that red-light district starting tomorrow.

- Huh?

- Don't be so low class as to pinch money,

make as much money as you want.

- That's great!

- That will not happen!

I feel an obligation to Kansuke.

So I can't let you take over the red-light district.

- Obligation?

Then why did you let me kill him?

- Humans are odd.

Sometimes you can't sever relationships even if you want to.

- That's silly.

You were just an ordinary samurai after all.

- Where should we do it?

- Graveyard would be good.

It is easier for clean-up afterwards.

Gonroku, dig a hole for a coffin for either way.

Gonroku, stay away from this!

- Ryuzen, give up the red-light district.

- No way!

- You insist?

I am attacking.

You are a priest with... the devil's luck.

- Priest! It is urgent!

Hey, wake up! Wake up!

- Stay back!

- What is going on?

- The master of Tomoeya was Hayate no Ihachi.

- Kondo left a note before he was killed.

- What's the matter, you two? You look so miserable.

After one night, everything is back to the beginning.

All of it was just a dream.

- We are completely back to where we started.

- But it was a nice dream for you, wasn't it?

You had me once.

- So you are moving to another place?

- Of course, I am.

I could never learn to like priests or yam potatoes after all.

- Priest! Priest!

Hey priest, isn't there anything we can do?

- You did not lose any money. You should not feel any pain whatsoever.

- Damn, I wonder where they are going now.

- To the temple. - Huh?

Ah! Damn!

- That damn Kondo did this too.

- Hey! Wait!

- Hey! You must not enter.

- I have my things in this temple.

- Shut up!

Because of all the outrageous activities, it is confiscated today and no one

can enter the premises.

- Please, my money!

Please! My money! Please! My money!

Translation by: Jiro Matsuki THE END Subtitles by: Merlin David Authoring by: John Gainfort