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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:28,445 --> 00:00:33,200 During the Edo period, ukiyo-e prints were highly popular among townspeople. 2 00:00:39,581 --> 00:00:44,378 Portraits of Kabuki actors were particularly in demand, as were portraits of beauties 3 00:00:44,544 --> 00:00:46,463 like town girls, geisha, and courtesans. 4 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:03,981 Then, a mysterious ukiyo-e artist named Toshusai Sharaku appeared. 5 00:01:04,982 --> 00:01:09,987 His portraits of Kabuki actors made a powerful impression on viewers. 6 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,157 Sharaku designed a hundred prints in ten months. 7 00:01:14,324 --> 00:01:15,993 and then suddenly disappeared... 8 00:01:27,129 --> 00:01:28,338 The world of suffering? 9 00:01:29,631 --> 00:01:32,509 That's a total misunderstanding. 10 00:01:33,969 --> 00:01:40,434 I never thought of myself as pitiful. 11 00:01:41,268 --> 00:01:42,519 Of course, 12 00:01:43,353 --> 00:01:46,773 I didn't get my own way in everything. 13 00:01:47,941 --> 00:01:51,570 But somehow it seems natural 14 00:01:52,904 --> 00:01:55,324 that things turned out like this. 15 00:01:56,825 --> 00:01:58,493 In the end, 16 00:01:58,827 --> 00:02:01,538 I guess I'm a woman who likes "to give." 17 00:02:02,706 --> 00:02:05,042 Hey, I don't like your ugly leers! 18 00:02:08,629 --> 00:02:09,963 How dare you! 19 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:13,300 I don't know. How should I know? 20 00:02:13,675 --> 00:02:17,054 He was a god-like figure for the likes of me. Wasn't he? 21 00:02:18,305 --> 00:02:19,765 Truth be told, 22 00:02:20,432 --> 00:02:24,144 he's not the kind of person you'd get to worship in a lifetime. 23 00:02:27,064 --> 00:02:28,690 Even to you officers 24 00:02:30,567 --> 00:02:31,860 and all the people of Edo? 25 00:02:33,612 --> 00:02:38,450 He's a mystery to everyone? 26 00:02:40,952 --> 00:02:45,749 I'm dumbstruck by my own ignorance. 27 00:02:48,794 --> 00:02:52,798 Proof? 28 00:02:52,964 --> 00:02:54,758 That I killed him? 29 00:02:58,095 --> 00:02:59,679 The ukiyo-e print is proof. 30 00:03:00,263 --> 00:03:02,307 The one that's stirring up such a fuss. 31 00:03:03,183 --> 00:03:05,769 I had the drawing of that print. 32 00:03:05,977 --> 00:03:07,270 I did. 33 00:03:07,688 --> 00:03:10,816 A cheap prostitute like me shouldn't own such a thing. 34 00:03:11,149 --> 00:03:12,776 Isn't that right? 35 00:03:13,235 --> 00:03:17,447 It's the last portrait of a Kabuki actor by the Great Master Sharaku. 36 00:03:19,449 --> 00:03:25,163 One look made me want it for myself. 37 00:03:26,748 --> 00:03:29,793 That's why I took his life. 38 00:03:32,462 --> 00:03:36,007 The life of Master Toshusai Sharaku. 39 00:03:37,718 --> 00:03:40,846 Here, take a look. 40 00:03:44,182 --> 00:03:47,644 This is proof that I killed Sharaku! 41 00:04:45,076 --> 00:04:47,996 Autumn, 1794 42 00:07:39,584 --> 00:07:42,087 Shibashinmei Shrine 43 00:08:49,362 --> 00:08:51,698 Takenoya House in Azabu 44 00:09:09,257 --> 00:09:11,509 Sharaku's Residence 45 00:10:01,184 --> 00:10:03,144 Your name's Yoshino? 46 00:10:03,937 --> 00:10:05,188 Arrived yesterday? 47 00:10:07,774 --> 00:10:10,902 The more I hear of your story, the more pitiful you seem. 48 00:10:11,528 --> 00:10:14,447 You're attractive and very young. 49 00:10:15,907 --> 00:10:18,785 Don't stay in this business for long. 50 00:10:19,119 --> 00:10:21,204 End up like me, and you're as good as dead. 51 00:10:22,163 --> 00:10:23,957 Well, maybe that's overkill. 52 00:10:24,249 --> 00:10:26,960 But you'd reach the first "d" in "dead." 53 00:10:31,297 --> 00:10:32,549 I know! 54 00:10:34,217 --> 00:10:36,386 You can escape tonight in secret. 55 00:10:36,678 --> 00:10:38,596 There's no time like the present. 56 00:10:41,349 --> 00:10:46,104 Don't be shy. I'll help you. 57 00:10:46,271 --> 00:10:50,316 Miyagino! Come here, Miyagino! 58 00:11:19,804 --> 00:11:24,642 COMMISSIONED PORTRAITS CAST LIST OF KABUKI ACTORS 59 00:11:24,809 --> 00:11:30,189 ICHIKAWA KOMAZO III AS SHIGA DAISHICHI 60 00:11:57,926 --> 00:12:00,261 What a mole's hole. 61 00:12:00,428 --> 00:12:02,722 Aye, I am very sorry. 62 00:12:09,896 --> 00:12:13,232 So, you're working on Komazo as Shiga Daishichi. 63 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:21,699 That's it, huh? 64 00:12:22,992 --> 00:12:25,245 Has the publisher arrived? 65 00:12:27,538 --> 00:12:29,207 None of your business. 66 00:12:29,666 --> 00:12:31,876 Yes, sir. I'm sorry. 67 00:12:32,168 --> 00:12:33,169 Kayo! 68 00:12:39,801 --> 00:12:40,843 Kayo! 69 00:12:44,764 --> 00:12:46,057 Where are you? 70 00:12:51,646 --> 00:12:54,440 How annoying. 71 00:12:55,650 --> 00:12:57,902 It grates on my nerves. 72 00:12:58,903 --> 00:13:02,156 They found a corpse in the moat this morning. 73 00:13:03,408 --> 00:13:07,453 When a prostitute dies, the wind always rises. 74 00:13:07,870 --> 00:13:11,582 The madam at the Matsunoya House is having a rough time, 75 00:13:13,167 --> 00:13:19,465 what with her top earner Umegae dying all of a sudden. 76 00:13:22,552 --> 00:13:26,180 Umegae must have been betrayed by her lover. 77 00:13:26,472 --> 00:13:31,185 Or else the senior prostitutes must have driven her out. 78 00:13:31,352 --> 00:13:36,065 Get some other girl to listen to this drivel. 79 00:13:38,067 --> 00:13:42,613 As for advice on how to escape, leave that to me. 80 00:13:44,490 --> 00:13:47,076 Yoshino's not the one who's leaving. 81 00:13:47,410 --> 00:13:50,163 Miyagino, you're the one. 82 00:13:51,039 --> 00:13:56,919 Tomorrow is likely to be windy again. 83 00:13:57,503 --> 00:14:01,507 What kind of a joke is that? 84 00:14:01,674 --> 00:14:03,384 Cut it out. 85 00:14:03,593 --> 00:14:06,846 You think you're being compassionate, 86 00:14:07,138 --> 00:14:10,433 but Yoshino has no home to go back to. 87 00:14:18,274 --> 00:14:19,609 Miyagino. 88 00:14:20,443 --> 00:14:25,782 Do you know what the younger girls call you behind your back? 89 00:14:26,282 --> 00:14:27,492 No idea. 90 00:14:28,242 --> 00:14:30,745 A worn-out, pipe-puffing hooker. 91 00:14:31,829 --> 00:14:35,917 Is it because my customers get addicted to me? 92 00:14:36,959 --> 00:14:40,546 They really don't like you interfering in their lives. 93 00:14:40,713 --> 00:14:44,675 That's a good one. 94 00:14:58,815 --> 00:15:03,444 Take a look at Komazo's prominent nose. 95 00:15:03,945 --> 00:15:06,114 Isn't that quite an artistic feat? 96 00:15:08,533 --> 00:15:12,787 Even I am deeply impressed with my own work. 97 00:15:15,081 --> 00:15:20,586 People may get excited about how much an ukiyo-e looks like the actor. 98 00:15:20,837 --> 00:15:23,798 I don't care about such crude comments. 99 00:15:24,882 --> 00:15:28,719 What I want to portray is the truth of the actor, no, 100 00:15:29,137 --> 00:15:31,973 of the human being under the makeup, 101 00:15:32,306 --> 00:15:36,144 the truth buried in his human nature. 102 00:15:38,604 --> 00:15:43,234 Yes, I am the most taken aback. 103 00:15:44,318 --> 00:15:48,823 In the beginning, my brush strokes were not fluid, 104 00:15:49,365 --> 00:15:54,328 but nowadays, my brush takes over 105 00:15:54,495 --> 00:15:56,581 and creates masterpieces. 106 00:16:00,710 --> 00:16:05,798 You are what you are, thanks to my spirited brushes. 107 00:16:13,181 --> 00:16:18,686 No, no. That fellow's portraits are no good. 108 00:16:19,604 --> 00:16:24,442 His work doesn't have a drop of venom. 109 00:16:26,903 --> 00:16:31,157 He paints what's black, black, and white, white. 110 00:16:31,324 --> 00:16:37,413 When he asks for my critical opinion as his master, I am at a loss for words. 111 00:16:40,833 --> 00:16:43,878 We're not kids playing house, you know. 112 00:16:47,423 --> 00:16:50,760 Yataro, are you leaving now? 113 00:16:51,677 --> 00:16:52,970 Yes, miss. 114 00:16:58,100 --> 00:17:00,269 Please raise your face. 115 00:17:02,813 --> 00:17:03,648 Yes, miss. 116 00:17:10,279 --> 00:17:13,157 Please come again tomorrow. 117 00:17:14,534 --> 00:17:16,827 Yes, miss. Thank you. 118 00:17:34,971 --> 00:17:35,930 Hey. 119 00:17:36,681 --> 00:17:38,557 What's the word for it? 120 00:17:40,184 --> 00:17:42,270 You know, like this morning. 121 00:17:42,728 --> 00:17:46,190 I always get like that when I come across you unexpectedly. 122 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:49,485 That wasn't unexpected. 123 00:17:50,027 --> 00:17:51,737 I was waiting in ambush for you. 124 00:17:53,114 --> 00:17:56,534 I love to see your natural face without any makeup on. 125 00:18:00,204 --> 00:18:03,749 Dazzled! That's it. That's the word. 126 00:18:03,916 --> 00:18:05,418 Don't shout like that! 127 00:18:05,584 --> 00:18:11,674 Sorry. Whenever I see you, I'm dazzled. 128 00:18:11,841 --> 00:18:13,426 That's what I wanted to say. 129 00:18:15,845 --> 00:18:21,434 My heart is full of thoughts of you. 130 00:18:22,351 --> 00:18:25,021 Like a boiling iron kettle, 131 00:18:25,438 --> 00:18:30,693 my heart goes clink, clink, clink... 132 00:18:32,445 --> 00:18:35,281 Making a clear bell-like sound, it keeps ringing. 133 00:18:35,781 --> 00:18:37,199 Clink, clink, clink. 134 00:18:37,366 --> 00:18:38,618 Oh sorry. 135 00:18:47,251 --> 00:18:53,382 I really bow down in respect to you, Yata. 136 00:18:54,133 --> 00:18:58,387 From sunrise to sunset, you study ukiyo-e. 137 00:18:59,555 --> 00:19:03,184 You really have brain power, don't you? 138 00:19:06,646 --> 00:19:10,274 You became the great master's disciple 139 00:19:10,941 --> 00:19:13,736 because he recognized your artistic abilities. 140 00:19:15,363 --> 00:19:20,076 Master Toshusai Sharaku, was that his name? 141 00:19:20,868 --> 00:19:24,121 He must be very demanding, a great master like that. 142 00:19:24,622 --> 00:19:26,082 I don't know. 143 00:19:27,208 --> 00:19:30,711 I'm just doing exactly what the sarcastic old man says 144 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,589 blindly copying ukiyo-e all day long. 145 00:19:34,256 --> 00:19:37,343 Still that's a big deal, you know. 146 00:19:42,181 --> 00:19:44,600 True. The master's work was fabulous. 147 00:19:44,975 --> 00:19:46,602 The human soul danced in them. 148 00:19:47,103 --> 00:19:48,896 But now... 149 00:19:51,690 --> 00:19:54,694 Yata, you've stopped drinking. 150 00:19:54,860 --> 00:19:57,196 Gulp it all down. 151 00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:10,209 I'm following your example and learning how to play the shamisen. 152 00:20:11,794 --> 00:20:16,674 Practice is best to clear your mind, don't you think? 153 00:20:18,551 --> 00:20:21,720 A shamisen. Come on, bring in a shamisen! 154 00:20:21,887 --> 00:20:24,140 Wait a second! 155 00:20:37,695 --> 00:20:40,614 All right, let's make a drunken deal. 156 00:20:40,865 --> 00:20:43,534 If you can play this, I'll paint a portrait of you. 157 00:20:43,701 --> 00:20:46,078 Yata, you're so mean. 158 00:20:46,245 --> 00:20:48,581 Stop fussing and get on with it. 159 00:21:16,275 --> 00:21:22,364 Come on, drink up. You're hopeless. 160 00:21:30,331 --> 00:21:31,707 Come on, drink more. 161 00:21:51,811 --> 00:21:54,939 What the heck are you doing so early in the morning? 162 00:21:55,439 --> 00:21:58,192 If you're looking for the money, here it is. 163 00:22:01,445 --> 00:22:06,367 There weren't many customers last night. 164 00:22:06,534 --> 00:22:08,661 You didn't take any, did you? 165 00:22:10,329 --> 00:22:13,249 These are the better ones. That's about it. 166 00:22:13,415 --> 00:22:18,671 Wait a second. If you take those, I won't be able to work, you know. 167 00:22:18,838 --> 00:22:21,465 I beg you, please Madam. 168 00:22:21,632 --> 00:22:25,177 You paid for your customer and drank through the night. 169 00:22:25,844 --> 00:22:28,347 You can treat your lover if you want. 170 00:22:28,514 --> 00:22:30,766 But remember you're running up a huge debt. 171 00:22:30,933 --> 00:22:34,478 I'll take lots of customers tonight. 172 00:22:34,645 --> 00:22:37,439 I'll pay off the debt and make some change. 173 00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:39,108 Fantastic. 174 00:22:39,275 --> 00:22:42,903 You can buy yourself new kimono with the cash. 175 00:22:45,906 --> 00:22:47,992 You bloodsucking monster! 176 00:24:08,489 --> 00:24:09,657 It's me, Kayo. 177 00:24:10,282 --> 00:24:12,242 I brought you some tea. 178 00:24:14,453 --> 00:24:17,456 Is it alright if I come in? 179 00:24:24,296 --> 00:24:25,130 Yes. 180 00:24:26,465 --> 00:24:27,341 Please. 181 00:24:28,258 --> 00:24:29,176 Come inside. 182 00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:16,140 Here you are. 183 00:25:18,809 --> 00:25:21,228 Oh, thank you very much. 184 00:25:29,278 --> 00:25:32,197 Uh, where is the master? 185 00:25:35,576 --> 00:25:38,954 He has gone out. 186 00:25:51,508 --> 00:25:53,510 Could you show me? 187 00:25:55,679 --> 00:25:57,389 Some of your ukiyo-e? 188 00:26:23,290 --> 00:26:25,209 It's a silly sketch. 189 00:26:27,044 --> 00:26:30,005 I painted that kind of ukiyo-e until I came here. 190 00:26:30,756 --> 00:26:32,007 It's a beauty portrait. 191 00:26:33,842 --> 00:26:35,677 I had nothing going for me. 192 00:26:36,804 --> 00:26:39,056 If the master hadn't discovered me, 193 00:26:39,807 --> 00:26:41,683 I would have starved to death by now. 194 00:26:44,144 --> 00:26:45,813 This is the first time 195 00:26:47,606 --> 00:26:51,819 you've shared anything about yourself. 196 00:27:08,669 --> 00:27:13,257 So this is what your portraits are really like. 197 00:27:22,057 --> 00:27:22,933 Yes, miss. 198 00:27:31,525 --> 00:27:34,862 They're all of the same woman. 199 00:27:37,990 --> 00:27:39,741 Just scribbles, you see. 200 00:27:49,418 --> 00:27:50,627 This is harmful. 201 00:27:59,136 --> 00:28:03,515 Exerting yourself in a dark place all the time. 202 00:28:06,727 --> 00:28:08,687 It's bad for your health. 203 00:28:36,882 --> 00:28:38,842 Hello. 204 00:28:45,766 --> 00:28:48,560 Excuse me, is the head clerk here? 205 00:30:02,259 --> 00:30:03,510 Shinobu... 206 00:30:08,223 --> 00:30:10,100 How have you been? 207 00:30:11,685 --> 00:30:15,856 You look thinner than the last time I saw you. 208 00:30:23,989 --> 00:30:25,323 Sorry. 209 00:30:27,701 --> 00:30:28,827 Here, take this. 210 00:30:30,454 --> 00:30:32,539 There's more cash than last time. 211 00:30:33,832 --> 00:30:40,589 You said you had a lot of expenses working at a fancy samurai residence. 212 00:30:51,933 --> 00:30:58,857 I see, you've risen in life, just like you said. 213 00:30:59,524 --> 00:31:02,944 You don't want your big sister coming by dressed like this. 214 00:31:07,574 --> 00:31:10,911 Oh, right. Sounds good. 215 00:31:11,286 --> 00:31:16,124 I'll ask the head clerk at Shirokiya to pass this money on to you from now on. 216 00:31:32,766 --> 00:31:34,476 I stink, she says. 217 00:31:39,523 --> 00:31:41,566 It's not a matter of what part. 218 00:31:44,528 --> 00:31:46,613 My whole body 219 00:31:54,830 --> 00:31:57,207 and my whole heart stink. 220 00:32:01,336 --> 00:32:05,757 Sorry to always bother you like this. 221 00:32:06,758 --> 00:32:08,885 But did Shinobu leave a message? 222 00:32:09,845 --> 00:32:11,930 For me. 223 00:32:13,181 --> 00:32:16,101 Oh really? Well, that's OK. 224 00:32:16,393 --> 00:32:18,478 As long as she is healthy and well. 225 00:32:42,294 --> 00:32:43,753 How does it look? 226 00:32:44,921 --> 00:32:48,675 Oh, it suits you very well. 227 00:32:51,094 --> 00:32:55,182 I'm so glad you chose it for me. 228 00:33:04,608 --> 00:33:05,859 Excuse me. 229 00:33:15,035 --> 00:33:21,791 Yataro, close your eyes and count to ten. 230 00:33:23,585 --> 00:33:25,337 You are "it." 231 00:33:26,379 --> 00:33:28,215 You have to catch me. 232 00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:31,843 Yes miss. 233 00:33:38,225 --> 00:33:39,267 One... 234 00:33:40,602 --> 00:33:41,645 two... 235 00:33:42,938 --> 00:33:43,855 three... 236 00:33:45,065 --> 00:33:45,982 four... 237 00:33:47,234 --> 00:33:48,193 five... 238 00:33:49,569 --> 00:33:50,612 six... 239 00:33:51,947 --> 00:33:52,948 seven... 240 00:33:53,990 --> 00:33:55,033 eight... 241 00:33:56,284 --> 00:33:57,369 nine... 242 00:33:58,662 --> 00:33:59,496 ten. 243 00:34:17,389 --> 00:34:18,265 Okayo? 244 00:34:33,238 --> 00:34:35,782 Okayo, where are you? 245 00:34:54,801 --> 00:34:57,178 Okayo? Please wait for me! 246 00:35:34,466 --> 00:35:35,759 Yataro... 247 00:35:36,384 --> 00:35:38,053 You be "it" now. 248 00:35:52,734 --> 00:35:56,529 You look like you've seen a ghost. 249 00:36:04,496 --> 00:36:11,294 Come on mister, let's go to bed now. 250 00:36:38,655 --> 00:36:40,573 Kayo's gone out. 251 00:36:41,449 --> 00:36:42,617 Prepare the sake. 252 00:36:55,046 --> 00:36:57,048 You were covered in dust 253 00:36:59,008 --> 00:37:01,636 and looked like a beggar. 254 00:37:02,887 --> 00:37:07,600 When the publisher first brought you to this residence. 255 00:37:08,643 --> 00:37:09,477 Yes sir. 256 00:37:14,149 --> 00:37:15,900 Now look at you. 257 00:37:17,193 --> 00:37:21,614 You've reached the point where you can feed yourself. 258 00:37:22,657 --> 00:37:24,367 Who's to thank for that? 259 00:37:27,996 --> 00:37:30,373 It is all thanks to you, my master. 260 00:37:35,253 --> 00:37:36,546 Listen up, you. 261 00:37:38,047 --> 00:37:44,012 Don't ever flatter yourself that you're an ukiyo-e artist. 262 00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:48,683 I took you in 263 00:37:50,018 --> 00:37:52,979 not because I thought you had artistic skill, 264 00:37:54,981 --> 00:37:58,610 but because you were so damn pitiful without any family to help you. 265 00:38:00,528 --> 00:38:01,446 Yes, Master. 266 00:38:19,672 --> 00:38:25,512 The most important thing about ukiyo-e is the soul. 267 00:38:27,639 --> 00:38:28,473 Yes, sir. 268 00:38:33,311 --> 00:38:37,315 Your drawings have soul. 269 00:38:41,236 --> 00:38:42,445 But 270 00:38:43,988 --> 00:38:46,783 it's my soul. 271 00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:49,369 In other words, 272 00:38:50,662 --> 00:38:52,580 you, sitting there, 273 00:38:53,831 --> 00:38:56,209 are a soulless shell of a man. 274 00:39:11,224 --> 00:39:12,267 Master? 275 00:39:13,393 --> 00:39:14,936 Enough. 276 00:39:21,317 --> 00:39:22,402 Get out of here! 277 00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,221 "You're a slut." 278 00:39:51,556 --> 00:39:56,019 I remember a long time ago a man scolded me like that. 279 00:39:56,436 --> 00:40:00,106 He was a young, dashing samurai. 280 00:40:00,857 --> 00:40:04,402 I was thinking of giving him my body and soul. 281 00:40:04,903 --> 00:40:07,530 I picked up my courage to write him a letter. 282 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,575 My calligraphy is terrible. 283 00:40:11,492 --> 00:40:15,330 But with a letter, you don't have to face the other's feelings directly. 284 00:40:17,123 --> 00:40:19,167 "On the night of the full moon 285 00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:25,089 please come to the single cedar tree at the edge of the village," like so. 286 00:40:26,716 --> 00:40:30,845 He came, striding along like a migrant locust. 287 00:41:11,094 --> 00:41:14,514 At the single cedar on the edge of the village 288 00:41:15,556 --> 00:41:18,601 if you hold both hands with someone 289 00:41:19,185 --> 00:41:21,771 and circle around and around 290 00:41:22,355 --> 00:41:26,150 they say your wish will come true. 291 00:41:34,075 --> 00:41:38,663 "Please, please on the night of the full moon 292 00:41:39,288 --> 00:41:44,127 come to the cedar tree at the edge of the village." 293 00:43:55,174 --> 00:44:01,722 NAKAYAMA TOMISABURO, FEMALE IMPERSONATOR AS MIYAGINO 294 00:49:30,050 --> 00:49:32,011 Let me go. I'm in a hurry. 295 00:49:32,178 --> 00:49:35,347 I tried to paint a portrait of you but I couldn't. 296 00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:36,932 So I drew a Kabuki actor. 297 00:49:37,099 --> 00:49:38,392 I can't accept it. 298 00:49:38,559 --> 00:49:39,518 Jealous? 299 00:49:39,685 --> 00:49:40,853 Of whom? 300 00:49:41,020 --> 00:49:43,230 You met her here yesterday. 301 00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:46,650 Give me a break. 302 00:49:47,610 --> 00:49:49,445 If you don't want it, throw it away. 303 00:49:50,029 --> 00:49:50,905 See ya. 304 00:49:53,490 --> 00:49:54,825 Yata! 305 00:49:57,411 --> 00:50:00,039 Were you waiting to ambush me today, too? 306 00:50:02,583 --> 00:50:04,877 Don't be so full of yourself, Miyagino. 307 00:50:11,383 --> 00:50:13,052 Clink, clink... 308 00:50:13,928 --> 00:50:16,472 Clink, clink, clink, clink... 309 00:50:24,146 --> 00:50:30,110 NAKAYAMA TOMISABURO, FEMALE IMPERSONATOR AS MIYAGINO 310 00:50:37,910 --> 00:50:40,496 That's not why I asked you for the favor. 311 00:50:43,499 --> 00:50:44,583 Master... 312 00:51:13,112 --> 00:51:15,364 That kid has fallen badly in love. 313 00:51:19,326 --> 00:51:21,287 Aren't you going to ask who it is? 314 00:51:31,171 --> 00:51:33,632 You already know. Is that it? 315 00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,219 You really got me. 316 00:51:39,972 --> 00:51:43,309 What did you say to Okayo? 317 00:51:47,438 --> 00:51:51,233 She wanted me to take your portrait to the publisher. 318 00:51:53,986 --> 00:51:55,779 Not my copies. 319 00:51:56,613 --> 00:52:00,409 But the genuine portrait you painted. 320 00:52:06,248 --> 00:52:09,043 She lost both parents when she was very young. 321 00:52:10,210 --> 00:52:13,589 I took a lot of trouble raising her. 322 00:52:15,341 --> 00:52:17,343 Now that she's a grown woman 323 00:52:18,218 --> 00:52:24,183 she's fallen badly for the likes of you. 324 00:52:24,350 --> 00:52:27,061 That's not possible. 325 00:52:33,192 --> 00:52:37,071 Then are you the one who's got the passion? 326 00:52:40,074 --> 00:52:44,828 Is that it? Huh? 327 00:52:48,207 --> 00:52:54,046 In the middle of the night, do you imagine her face and body? 328 00:52:55,381 --> 00:53:00,219 You clutch the thin bedding and roll this way and that. 329 00:53:01,095 --> 00:53:04,556 Is that it? 330 00:53:06,475 --> 00:53:07,768 Master... 331 00:53:09,103 --> 00:53:12,439 Please do not crack such horrible jokes. 332 00:53:28,455 --> 00:53:29,832 This is a good opportunity. 333 00:53:30,666 --> 00:53:32,376 I'll appraise your portrait. 334 00:53:34,628 --> 00:53:36,672 Not my copy work 335 00:53:37,923 --> 00:53:39,716 but your very own. 336 00:53:41,718 --> 00:53:43,095 With my expert eyes, 337 00:53:43,762 --> 00:53:47,015 I'll judge the state of your soul. 338 00:53:57,568 --> 00:53:59,027 What are you doing? 339 00:53:59,653 --> 00:54:01,405 Bring it here at once. 340 00:54:05,325 --> 00:54:06,160 Yes, Master. 341 00:56:38,353 --> 00:56:40,439 Miyagino, someone's here to see you. 342 00:56:40,606 --> 00:56:42,024 So early? 343 00:56:42,190 --> 00:56:45,027 It's not a customer. 344 00:59:10,005 --> 00:59:11,506 Miyagino. 345 00:59:12,966 --> 00:59:14,760 Hey, Miyagino. 346 00:59:18,388 --> 00:59:20,557 Sorry, I'll be back right away. 347 00:59:23,393 --> 00:59:26,646 What's going on? That's your lover, right? 348 00:59:26,813 --> 00:59:30,776 His face is so pale he looks like he's had his spirit sucked out. 349 00:59:30,942 --> 00:59:32,360 It's horrifying. 350 00:59:32,527 --> 00:59:35,238 You sound like you've seen a ghost. 351 00:59:35,906 --> 00:59:38,784 What I mean is, I don't want any trouble. Got it? 352 00:59:38,950 --> 00:59:41,995 What's eating you up? Don't worry. 353 00:59:42,162 --> 00:59:43,580 Miyagino. 354 00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:51,713 I'm sorry, Yata. 355 00:59:58,053 --> 00:59:59,930 Playing hide-and-seek, are you? 356 01:00:05,143 --> 01:00:07,104 Come on out. 357 01:00:11,358 --> 01:00:12,275 So? 358 01:00:14,611 --> 01:00:16,613 Did something happen? 359 01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:21,243 I see. 360 01:00:22,536 --> 01:00:24,746 You must've killed someone. 361 01:00:28,959 --> 01:00:32,087 We had a customer like that before. 362 01:00:32,504 --> 01:00:36,842 He was so noisy. 363 01:00:37,008 --> 01:00:39,427 As soon as he came in, he'd talk non-stop. 364 01:00:39,594 --> 01:00:41,805 He didn't just drink, 365 01:00:41,972 --> 01:00:45,016 he poured sake into himself. 366 01:00:45,183 --> 01:00:48,937 All I had to do was nod and go along with him. 367 01:00:52,023 --> 01:00:53,400 Ah-ha. 368 01:00:54,568 --> 01:00:57,529 Tonight, I can do the opposite. 369 01:00:58,071 --> 01:01:01,116 I'll talk my heart out 370 01:01:01,324 --> 01:01:03,535 and drink to the full. 371 01:01:05,203 --> 01:01:06,121 I... 372 01:01:06,913 --> 01:01:08,790 I haven't killed anyone. 373 01:01:10,375 --> 01:01:14,504 Do you think I have enough bravado to kill? 374 01:01:17,799 --> 01:01:21,344 Those who aren't daring end up killing. 375 01:01:22,929 --> 01:01:25,599 Those who have real daring 376 01:01:26,766 --> 01:01:29,561 are able to hold back from killing. 377 01:01:38,570 --> 01:01:39,821 Miyagino. 378 01:01:41,406 --> 01:01:43,366 Did you look at the portrait I drew? 379 01:01:49,331 --> 01:01:52,500 You don't have to. 380 01:01:53,710 --> 01:01:58,423 After some time, you can sell it as Sharaku's work. 381 01:01:59,049 --> 01:02:02,427 It'll bring you so much money, your eyes'll jump out of their sockets. 382 01:02:07,807 --> 01:02:08,850 But this... 383 01:02:10,894 --> 01:02:12,604 This is your own work, right? 384 01:02:15,357 --> 01:02:19,194 It's a lump of my vomit. 385 01:02:28,286 --> 01:02:32,540 That old man could never draw 386 01:02:32,707 --> 01:02:36,461 such an elegant and vibrant masterpiece. 387 01:02:38,046 --> 01:02:41,132 It's a soulless masterpiece of vomit. 388 01:02:43,176 --> 01:02:45,011 The irony is too much even for me. 389 01:02:48,682 --> 01:02:54,729 The soul of ukiyo-e is too difficult for me to understand. 390 01:03:04,864 --> 01:03:09,911 Hey, Yata. Do you remember? 391 01:03:11,496 --> 01:03:14,291 That snowy day when we first met? 392 01:03:15,792 --> 01:03:17,252 You remember, don't you? 393 01:03:20,005 --> 01:03:21,423 Oh, I see. 394 01:03:22,382 --> 01:03:26,261 Of course, you'd forget. 395 01:03:29,723 --> 01:03:34,060 I won't forget. 396 01:03:34,352 --> 01:03:35,812 For the whole of my life. 397 01:03:37,939 --> 01:03:39,065 That's true. 398 01:03:41,109 --> 01:03:42,485 Yata. 399 01:03:43,945 --> 01:03:50,076 Now it's my turn to save you. 400 01:03:53,621 --> 01:03:55,040 What are you trying to say? 401 01:03:58,334 --> 01:03:59,461 Miyagino. 402 01:04:02,714 --> 01:04:08,053 I... heard from someone... 403 01:04:09,554 --> 01:04:10,764 You... 404 01:04:12,390 --> 01:04:14,225 You did him in. 405 01:04:15,185 --> 01:04:16,728 That Master Sharaku! 406 01:04:17,354 --> 01:04:18,980 Who told you?! No one should know. 407 01:04:19,147 --> 01:04:21,566 Calm down. It was in the spur of the moment, right? 408 01:04:21,733 --> 01:04:23,735 Answer me, Miyagino! Who told you? 409 01:04:23,902 --> 01:04:27,947 Don't worry. No one knows besides me. 410 01:04:41,252 --> 01:04:42,754 Yata? 411 01:04:43,588 --> 01:04:47,967 Damnit, who cares! 412 01:04:50,011 --> 01:04:52,472 The authorities will hear soon enough. 413 01:04:53,348 --> 01:04:55,809 If they want to arrest me, they can go ahead. 414 01:05:02,398 --> 01:05:03,650 Hey, Miyagino. 415 01:05:06,694 --> 01:05:10,698 I envy you so much. 416 01:05:11,241 --> 01:05:13,284 What's this all of a sudden? 417 01:05:13,451 --> 01:05:14,911 Even when you're trodden on, 418 01:05:15,078 --> 01:05:18,998 you sashay through life shamelessly. You have a natural power like weeds. 419 01:05:19,374 --> 01:05:22,252 What! You're just making fun of me. 420 01:05:22,419 --> 01:05:23,753 No, I'm not! 421 01:05:26,506 --> 01:05:28,007 I'm really not. 422 01:05:29,676 --> 01:05:35,348 Weeds are weaklings that don't have status or talent. 423 01:05:36,432 --> 01:05:41,312 So, when those weeds suffer through rough winds and grow up strong, 424 01:05:41,479 --> 01:05:43,231 that's an uncommon achievement. 425 01:05:43,398 --> 01:05:46,901 You've achieved that, too, you see. 426 01:05:54,742 --> 01:05:59,706 What have I lived my life for? 427 01:06:03,543 --> 01:06:07,797 What have I taken up a paintbrush for? 428 01:06:21,811 --> 01:06:23,146 Miyagino. 429 01:06:24,856 --> 01:06:29,527 Share the secret of your resilience with me. 430 01:06:30,278 --> 01:06:31,112 Do me a favor. 431 01:06:31,279 --> 01:06:32,405 Strip for me. 432 01:06:32,572 --> 01:06:35,950 If I painted a portrait of you again, maybe I'd become a better person. 433 01:06:36,117 --> 01:06:38,453 Sure, I'll strip for you. 434 01:06:42,624 --> 01:06:46,669 But my body has collapsed with age. 435 01:07:21,204 --> 01:07:24,499 The old man's face keeps flashing across my mind. 436 01:07:43,268 --> 01:07:47,021 His decline was disturbing to say the least. 437 01:07:51,276 --> 01:07:55,947 Old man Sharaku was suspicious of Okayo and me being together. 438 01:07:57,365 --> 01:08:00,785 Okayo is his granddaughter. 439 01:08:02,537 --> 01:08:06,207 Of course, he was sodden drunk a lot of the time. 440 01:08:18,261 --> 01:08:19,846 This is a good opportunity. 441 01:08:20,638 --> 01:08:23,099 I'll appraise your portrait. 442 01:08:25,059 --> 01:08:27,437 Not my copy work. 443 01:08:27,895 --> 01:08:30,189 but your very own. 444 01:08:32,775 --> 01:08:34,110 With my expert eye, 445 01:08:35,153 --> 01:08:38,531 I'll judge the state of your soul. 446 01:08:46,914 --> 01:08:48,416 What are you doing? 447 01:08:49,125 --> 01:08:51,002 Bring it here at once. 448 01:08:54,631 --> 01:08:55,465 Yes, Master. 449 01:09:05,808 --> 01:09:11,314 Well, I haven't seen how you are, 450 01:09:12,523 --> 01:09:15,026 but Kayo, I saw with my own eyes. 451 01:09:17,862 --> 01:09:21,032 She had a hard pillow between her legs 452 01:09:21,324 --> 01:09:24,994 and was wiggling her little hips, 453 01:09:25,453 --> 01:09:27,038 crying out, "Yataro!" 454 01:09:38,966 --> 01:09:40,301 Okayo is 455 01:09:42,470 --> 01:09:44,097 a naive young person. 456 01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:53,690 You may be right about her immaturity. 457 01:09:55,608 --> 01:10:00,196 Kayo doesn't have hair growing where it should. 458 01:10:08,037 --> 01:10:09,664 When I realized, 459 01:10:10,623 --> 01:10:15,294 all my ten fingers were digging deep into the master's neck... 460 01:10:19,632 --> 01:10:22,927 Men who talk dirty like that are the scum of the earth. 461 01:10:25,221 --> 01:10:29,892 You really like her, 462 01:10:30,643 --> 01:10:32,437 that Okayo girl. 463 01:10:34,188 --> 01:10:36,232 Not really. 464 01:10:36,441 --> 01:10:39,152 You don't need to lie. 465 01:10:39,610 --> 01:10:42,363 Didn't I meet her at Shibashinmei yesterday? 466 01:10:43,364 --> 01:10:44,532 Don't be suspicious. 467 01:10:45,533 --> 01:10:47,952 It's not the kind of relationship you suspect. 468 01:10:50,037 --> 01:10:53,458 Yata, your brush has stopped. 469 01:10:56,502 --> 01:10:57,378 Oh, right. 470 01:11:11,809 --> 01:11:16,397 Okayo likes you, too. 471 01:11:17,982 --> 01:11:19,358 You see... 472 01:11:20,151 --> 01:11:25,281 I heard from Okayo about your murder incident. 473 01:11:28,201 --> 01:11:29,952 Okayo came here? 474 01:11:31,954 --> 01:11:33,664 This is what she said. 475 01:11:34,582 --> 01:11:37,168 "Am I an evil woman? 476 01:11:37,919 --> 01:11:40,171 Grandfather was killed but 477 01:11:40,421 --> 01:11:43,758 I can't help feeling sorry for Yataro. 478 01:11:44,675 --> 01:11:49,096 He will come here for your help. 479 01:11:49,806 --> 01:11:54,101 When he does, please let him escape. 480 01:11:54,644 --> 01:11:56,938 I don't care what happens to me." 481 01:12:00,149 --> 01:12:01,025 You know, 482 01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:06,364 I was happy – no, thrilled 483 01:12:07,490 --> 01:12:13,246 because you'd told her about me. 484 01:12:15,915 --> 01:12:17,542 Where is Okayo? 485 01:12:18,042 --> 01:12:19,085 Don't tell me... 486 01:12:19,710 --> 01:12:22,838 She's with the master's soulless corpse? 487 01:12:23,923 --> 01:12:27,218 Yata, your hand has stopped. 488 01:12:33,891 --> 01:12:39,647 Okayo has gone to the publisher to discuss what to do. 489 01:12:40,898 --> 01:12:44,527 She intends to say that Sharaku was strangled by a robber. 490 01:12:45,152 --> 01:12:47,780 For someone so young, she is very clever. 491 01:12:52,076 --> 01:12:55,997 Oh, by the way, Okayo said 492 01:12:56,956 --> 01:13:01,794 that if possible, I should escape with you, Yata. 493 01:13:02,753 --> 01:13:06,841 She said that you belong to Miyagino. 494 01:13:07,008 --> 01:13:10,177 Isn't that amazing? 495 01:13:10,344 --> 01:13:12,430 So, I said to her 496 01:13:12,972 --> 01:13:15,516 that this was no joke. 497 01:13:15,766 --> 01:13:20,646 Of course, I like Yata. I like him so much. 498 01:13:22,231 --> 01:13:27,403 But however I may seem, I have guts. 499 01:13:27,862 --> 01:13:31,532 So even if Yata leaves, I will be calm and serene and live on. 500 01:13:31,699 --> 01:13:37,622 I'll hum a tune, sleep with a man I dislike and still enjoy myself, in fact. 501 01:13:38,539 --> 01:13:42,001 But Okayo, you're different. 502 01:13:43,044 --> 01:13:47,131 So, hurry on to the publisher. 503 01:13:48,007 --> 01:13:54,722 When the sun sets completely, wait at the Shibashinmei precinct. 504 01:13:55,848 --> 01:14:00,978 Your dear Yata is certain to meet you there. 505 01:14:05,733 --> 01:14:08,944 She's a good person Okayo is... 506 01:14:17,536 --> 01:14:23,167 Yata, it's true that you liked me. 507 01:14:24,585 --> 01:14:25,544 But... 508 01:14:27,046 --> 01:14:33,469 But that was because 509 01:14:36,305 --> 01:14:42,561 a passionate young man could have a woman without paying. 510 01:14:44,146 --> 01:14:47,984 You don't have family, 511 01:14:48,150 --> 01:14:51,737 so, on dreary rainy nights, 512 01:14:52,113 --> 01:14:55,282 you thought of me as your mom or big sister. 513 01:14:55,491 --> 01:14:56,617 Isn't that right? 514 01:15:13,092 --> 01:15:14,468 What's funny? 515 01:15:17,471 --> 01:15:21,892 How did I fall for you? 516 01:15:22,059 --> 01:15:25,020 Such a hopeless man. 517 01:15:26,397 --> 01:15:27,732 Goddamnit! 518 01:15:29,775 --> 01:15:34,447 I've spent endless days in a dim storage room drawing copies! 519 01:15:34,613 --> 01:15:38,033 Then to marry an old prostitute 520 01:15:38,534 --> 01:15:41,704 and end my days is too miserable! 521 01:15:46,292 --> 01:15:50,004 Clink, clink, clink... 522 01:15:51,922 --> 01:15:56,260 Yata, your brush has stopped. 523 01:16:02,141 --> 01:16:03,517 It's over! 524 01:16:04,602 --> 01:16:06,103 What are you doing? 525 01:16:07,229 --> 01:16:08,981 Bring it here at once. 526 01:16:16,322 --> 01:16:17,156 Yes, Master. 527 01:16:26,332 --> 01:16:27,416 You bastard. 528 01:16:28,834 --> 01:16:35,341 You think it's beneath you to do copy work for me. 529 01:16:38,093 --> 01:16:40,763 And you trick Okayo into being on your side. 530 01:16:43,557 --> 01:16:47,436 You don't have the courage to go public with your own work. 531 01:16:48,062 --> 01:16:50,064 What an impressive failure. 532 01:17:03,869 --> 01:17:07,039 You must be aware of the truth. 533 01:17:08,290 --> 01:17:12,920 Thankfully, you are not stupid. 534 01:17:38,487 --> 01:17:41,115 For a soulless fellow like you, 535 01:17:42,449 --> 01:17:47,913 wherever you search, either body or mind, 536 01:17:50,040 --> 01:17:55,838 your own work no longer lives in you. 537 01:19:07,284 --> 01:19:08,702 Hey, what are you doing?! 538 01:19:13,207 --> 01:19:15,084 What are you doing? That's mine. 539 01:19:15,251 --> 01:19:18,253 I can't let you keep this, in case you change your mind. 540 01:19:18,420 --> 01:19:21,382 Kayo's wishes may never be fulfilled! 541 01:19:23,175 --> 01:19:25,678 "Please allow me to make a statement. 542 01:19:26,011 --> 01:19:29,431 A man called Yataro, for various reasons, took this portrait 543 01:19:29,598 --> 01:19:31,934 and visited me, Miyagino. 544 01:19:32,101 --> 01:19:35,229 He is the man who killed Sharaku." 545 01:19:35,396 --> 01:19:36,230 Like that! 546 01:19:37,648 --> 01:19:38,691 I'm going now. 547 01:19:38,857 --> 01:19:40,067 See ya, Miyagino. 548 01:19:40,234 --> 01:19:44,405 Give it back. It's mine. This portrait is mine! 549 01:19:46,740 --> 01:19:52,830 You'll understand one day why I want this portrait so much! 550 01:20:41,628 --> 01:20:44,548 Yata and Okayo, 551 01:20:45,257 --> 01:20:47,801 don't get burnt to death. 552 01:21:05,652 --> 01:21:11,283 Ah, it's ringing, ringing. 553 01:21:15,913 --> 01:21:22,294 When I pay full attention to that ringing sound, 554 01:21:23,337 --> 01:21:29,843 I feel nobler than any princess and become proud. 555 01:21:34,765 --> 01:21:37,893 I'm sorry. Forgive me, Miyagino. 556 01:21:40,312 --> 01:21:43,273 You're impossible. Why do you care about me of all people? 557 01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:45,192 Don't get all cocky, Yataro. 558 01:21:47,027 --> 01:21:53,033 I'm the kind of woman who's just got "to give." 559 01:21:55,452 --> 01:21:56,286 "Give" what? 560 01:22:05,003 --> 01:22:07,172 Shall I confess? 561 01:22:07,589 --> 01:22:10,884 Hey, what are you talking about? 562 01:22:11,218 --> 01:22:13,470 You can leave whenever you want. 563 01:22:14,596 --> 01:22:20,519 I don't know how long my confession will be. 564 01:22:21,103 --> 01:22:23,856 On top of that, it's a bit insulting to you. 565 01:22:26,150 --> 01:22:28,694 What is this about? You're worrying me. 566 01:22:33,449 --> 01:22:37,536 When I was sold, Dad said, 567 01:22:39,371 --> 01:22:43,709 "If we stay as we are, the whole family will starve to death. 568 01:22:44,751 --> 01:22:49,339 But if you go into servitude, only you will suffer. 569 01:22:49,631 --> 01:22:52,509 Based on the numbers, it's better you went." 570 01:22:53,343 --> 01:22:56,805 Being told like that, I found it persuasive. 571 01:22:57,264 --> 01:23:00,726 I have a strange kind of mindset. 572 01:23:01,935 --> 01:23:05,314 Even so, Dad is kind of strange, too. 573 01:23:06,064 --> 01:23:10,527 This spring, he dropped by after visiting Ise Shrine. 574 01:23:11,195 --> 01:23:12,988 I hadn't seen him in over ten years. 575 01:23:13,906 --> 01:23:20,078 He must've kept drinking that whole time, his voice was so hoarse. 576 01:23:21,121 --> 01:23:25,876 He said, "If you'd thought more about my happiness, 577 01:23:26,126 --> 01:23:30,130 you wouldn't have become a prostitute." 578 01:23:30,547 --> 01:23:31,757 In other words, 579 01:23:32,841 --> 01:23:35,469 if I hadn't joined this trade, 580 01:23:36,136 --> 01:23:40,766 he would have had to grit his teeth and sweat it out working. 581 01:23:41,183 --> 01:23:46,772 Then he wouldn't have become the lazy, wretched good-for-nothing he is now. 582 01:23:46,939 --> 01:23:52,027 Enraged and reeking of drink, he beat and kicked me. 583 01:23:53,362 --> 01:23:55,989 But even then, I thought... 584 01:23:56,573 --> 01:24:01,161 Even that seemed persuasive. Right? 585 01:24:04,498 --> 01:24:11,004 When my sister said she didn't like farm work or barley rice, 586 01:24:11,797 --> 01:24:14,091 and wanted to live the good life in a palace, 587 01:24:14,258 --> 01:24:18,178 wearing beautiful kimonos and eating lots of delicious foods... 588 01:24:18,345 --> 01:24:23,684 What she said seemed persuasive, too. 589 01:24:26,019 --> 01:24:27,771 So that's your secret? 590 01:24:29,147 --> 01:24:33,986 Even a good story falls flat when it's told by the heroine. 591 01:24:35,612 --> 01:24:41,493 You are too innocent, my darling princess! 592 01:24:48,959 --> 01:24:50,711 It is strange after all. 593 01:24:52,087 --> 01:24:54,172 I shouldn't share this with others. 594 01:24:59,970 --> 01:25:01,138 Yata. 595 01:25:03,056 --> 01:25:04,933 It's night already. 596 01:25:09,229 --> 01:25:10,314 See ya. 597 01:25:17,070 --> 01:25:17,863 Miyagino... 598 01:25:18,030 --> 01:25:20,615 Stop it. I can't stand your tearful voice... 599 01:25:26,204 --> 01:25:27,247 Sorry about that. 600 01:25:28,790 --> 01:25:32,169 As this is the end, I have something to confess. 601 01:25:33,128 --> 01:25:36,214 I didn't kill Sharaku on impulse. 602 01:25:36,381 --> 01:25:37,966 I'm not that artless. 603 01:25:38,300 --> 01:25:39,092 Listen! 604 01:25:39,968 --> 01:25:43,513 As long as Sharaku is out of this world, 605 01:25:44,264 --> 01:25:47,351 the money from selling my ukiyo-e as his will all come to me. 606 01:25:47,809 --> 01:25:51,605 Or more accurately, to me and Okayo. 607 01:25:51,772 --> 01:25:52,564 How's that? 608 01:25:52,981 --> 01:25:54,191 Are you disgusted? 609 01:25:57,694 --> 01:25:59,696 Tell Okayo, 610 01:26:01,073 --> 01:26:03,450 that she'll surely be happy. 611 01:26:07,245 --> 01:26:08,663 I'll say it again. 612 01:26:11,208 --> 01:26:12,209 See ya. 613 01:26:15,379 --> 01:26:19,049 How far are you going to side with the hopeless? 614 01:26:19,716 --> 01:26:22,594 You are a strange one after all. 615 01:26:23,678 --> 01:26:27,432 Alright, I'll say it again, too. 616 01:26:29,059 --> 01:26:30,268 See ya. 617 01:26:53,792 --> 01:26:54,835 What the hell! 618 01:26:55,001 --> 01:26:57,170 Trashing me like that! 619 01:27:02,342 --> 01:27:03,468 Seriously! 620 01:27:04,845 --> 01:27:06,721 What the hell. 621 01:27:08,557 --> 01:27:13,603 They plotted together 622 01:27:15,147 --> 01:27:16,314 from the beginning. 623 01:27:27,868 --> 01:27:30,704 Yataro is mine. 624 01:27:45,594 --> 01:27:49,639 You have Yataro wrapped around your finger. 625 01:27:51,266 --> 01:27:54,144 So he will certainly come here. 626 01:27:55,061 --> 01:27:59,983 Please tell him to come to Shibashinmei Shrine. 627 01:28:14,539 --> 01:28:17,042 What a foul and indecent room. 628 01:28:46,613 --> 01:28:48,198 He's gone. 629 01:28:50,242 --> 01:28:52,536 Yata didn't die. 630 01:28:53,745 --> 01:28:55,539 He ran off alive. 631 01:28:59,709 --> 01:29:01,086 Oh no, I hate it. 632 01:29:01,795 --> 01:29:04,548 That ringing sound has started again. 633 01:29:05,382 --> 01:29:06,800 And again. 634 01:29:21,398 --> 01:29:24,317 Yoshino! 635 01:29:24,568 --> 01:29:26,361 Go run an errand for me, will you! 636 01:29:29,364 --> 01:29:33,493 I am so thankful to you, Master Choki. 637 01:29:33,660 --> 01:29:36,371 I can earn a little more at the end. 638 01:29:37,330 --> 01:29:40,667 I am in great debt to the madam, 639 01:29:40,834 --> 01:29:44,671 though mostly because of my own liking "to give." 640 01:29:44,838 --> 01:29:47,173 So, it can't be helped. 641 01:29:48,383 --> 01:29:52,804 Oh, Master Choki, I didn't mean "giving" like that! 642 01:30:01,646 --> 01:30:03,148 Then what do I like "to give?" 643 01:30:04,065 --> 01:30:09,571 When was it that I got hooked on "giving?" 644 01:30:12,324 --> 01:30:14,492 It was summer when I was seven. 645 01:30:15,702 --> 01:30:18,413 That day, I was catching tadpoles 646 01:30:18,580 --> 01:30:20,707 at the stream by the hills behind the village. 647 01:30:21,249 --> 01:30:22,751 I was alone. 648 01:30:23,585 --> 01:30:29,257 All of a sudden, heavy rain started. 649 01:30:37,390 --> 01:30:41,686 The heavens suddenly cloud over. 650 01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:47,776 A downpour is followed by wind and thunder. 651 01:30:48,526 --> 01:30:54,783 Little children run hither and thither in fear. 652 01:30:55,909 --> 01:30:59,579 The ground cracks open and the woods topple over. 653 01:30:59,746 --> 01:31:03,208 Lightning flashes and 654 01:31:03,375 --> 01:31:09,756 before my eyes 655 01:31:15,011 --> 01:31:20,850 barbs of fire 656 01:31:21,017 --> 01:31:25,897 crash down. 657 01:31:31,277 --> 01:31:37,367 "Bodhisattvas, Shinto gods, and the sun god, 658 01:31:37,534 --> 01:31:42,497 if you will save me, 659 01:31:42,664 --> 01:31:47,502 whatever hard days may come, 660 01:31:47,669 --> 01:31:51,006 from now to eternity, 661 01:31:51,172 --> 01:31:56,511 I will never complain. 662 01:31:57,512 --> 01:32:02,767 This is my prayer now and forever. 663 01:32:02,934 --> 01:32:06,563 I beg you, I beg you," I prayed. 664 01:32:06,730 --> 01:32:12,277 That said, the surroundings are overtaken 665 01:32:12,444 --> 01:32:19,117 by surging flames and drifting rocks. 666 01:32:30,211 --> 01:32:34,340 Magically, from the depths of this hell, 667 01:32:34,716 --> 01:32:39,596 "Jump into the river!" a voice says. 668 01:32:39,763 --> 01:32:52,692 A spray of water rises to meet me. 669 01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:57,405 The whole area was bright red like a forest fire. 670 01:32:58,239 --> 01:33:00,867 My legs trembled and I couldn't move. 671 01:33:01,785 --> 01:33:03,161 Help! 672 01:33:03,411 --> 01:33:07,123 Dear gods and buddhas, this is my prayer of a lifetime. 673 01:33:09,083 --> 01:33:10,335 At that moment... 674 01:33:12,003 --> 01:33:14,672 I don't remember where the voice came from. 675 01:33:16,633 --> 01:33:19,177 Maybe it was from the sky 676 01:33:19,844 --> 01:33:22,305 or maybe from the ground. 677 01:33:23,431 --> 01:33:25,558 Anyway, I heard it. 678 01:33:27,018 --> 01:33:31,731 "Little girl, jump into the river." 679 01:33:33,733 --> 01:33:39,405 At once, a black bundle crashed into me. 680 01:33:39,572 --> 01:33:42,075 It pushed me into the river—splash! 681 01:33:50,583 --> 01:33:55,713 When I looked at the black bundle later, 682 01:33:57,132 --> 01:33:59,926 I saw it was the burnt corpse of an old wood cutter. 683 01:34:02,220 --> 01:34:07,433 At that moment, I made a promise. 684 01:34:09,936 --> 01:34:14,941 "From now on, I must give back. 685 01:34:16,025 --> 01:34:18,361 If someone is in danger of fire, 686 01:34:18,528 --> 01:34:20,780 I must give my life for them. 687 01:34:20,947 --> 01:34:23,324 That's what it means to be human..." 688 01:34:28,496 --> 01:34:30,999 How stupid of me. 689 01:34:33,418 --> 01:34:38,464 The promise I made when I was only seven 690 01:34:38,631 --> 01:34:41,593 is still stuck deep in my heart. 691 01:34:57,609 --> 01:34:59,944 The rain has stopped, it seems. 692 01:35:04,282 --> 01:35:06,701 Come on, Miyagino! What's going on? 693 01:35:07,785 --> 01:35:09,454 The police are here. 694 01:35:09,621 --> 01:35:11,998 They said you called for them. 695 01:35:26,930 --> 01:35:28,848 Sorry, sir. 696 01:35:29,307 --> 01:35:30,808 It's time for farewell. 697 01:35:33,603 --> 01:35:36,189 What have you been up to? 698 01:35:36,356 --> 01:35:38,858 I told you I don't want any trouble! 699 01:35:39,025 --> 01:35:41,527 It's a sad tale to listen to, Madam, 700 01:35:41,694 --> 01:35:44,364 about a pipe-puffing hooker going up in smoke... 701 01:35:44,530 --> 01:35:46,783 Miyagino, did you... 702 01:35:47,492 --> 01:35:49,827 With my bird brain, 703 01:35:50,411 --> 01:35:53,915 this was the best scheme I could come up with. 704 01:36:43,047 --> 01:36:45,425 Step right up! 705 01:36:45,591 --> 01:36:47,510 Here on display, 706 01:36:47,677 --> 01:36:52,765 by the famous Great Master Toshusai Sharaku, 707 01:36:52,932 --> 01:36:59,314 are his remaining portraits of Kabuki actors. 708 01:36:59,731 --> 01:37:05,778 The great master was murdered by an old prostitute a while ago 709 01:37:05,945 --> 01:37:09,157 and has gone with the winter wind. 710 01:37:09,615 --> 01:37:13,619 Even his end is a big hit like the finale of a Kabuki play. 711 01:37:13,995 --> 01:37:16,331 All hail Sharaku, star of the ukiyo-e world! 712 01:37:16,497 --> 01:37:19,459 Don't lament his unbefitting fate. 713 01:37:20,209 --> 01:37:22,503 This is your chance to buy his prints. 714 01:37:22,670 --> 01:37:25,173 Come on, step right up! 715 01:37:25,423 --> 01:37:26,799 I'll take a Miyagino print! 716 01:37:30,053 --> 01:37:31,012 What? 717 01:37:33,222 --> 01:37:37,393 They're selling many times more than usual? 718 01:37:40,646 --> 01:37:43,816 In that case, it was a good idea to kill Sharaku. 719 01:37:45,526 --> 01:37:51,115 Truth be told, I thought that portrait by Sharaku would fetch a good price 720 01:37:51,282 --> 01:37:53,910 so I thought I'd snitch it, but he caught me. 721 01:37:54,077 --> 01:37:58,456 Then, it so happens that he turned out to be a wild lech. 722 01:37:58,623 --> 01:38:01,250 He promised to let me go if I undid my robe. 723 01:38:01,959 --> 01:38:06,297 Well, to perform at his age is something to celebrate. 724 01:38:06,589 --> 01:38:10,718 So, we got to it and untangled and tried again when... 725 01:38:10,885 --> 01:38:14,555 I guess it was his age, he suddenly passed away. 726 01:38:21,646 --> 01:38:23,064 Is it time now? 727 01:38:26,484 --> 01:38:28,027 Already? 728 01:38:42,917 --> 01:38:48,381 I feel strangely excited. 729 01:38:50,466 --> 01:38:53,594 Every part of my body is tingling. 730 01:38:54,846 --> 01:38:57,390 Clink... clink... 731 01:39:01,644 --> 01:39:06,023 It's ringing, ringing... 732 01:39:08,276 --> 01:39:11,863 Clink, clink, clink... 733 01:39:47,690 --> 01:39:49,317 It's dangerous here. 734 01:39:50,318 --> 01:39:53,988 Around this time of day at this moat, dead bodies rise to the surface. 735 01:39:54,197 --> 01:39:57,158 When I die, my dead body won't rise up. 736 01:39:58,701 --> 01:40:01,662 Sister, are you a ghost? 737 01:40:03,247 --> 01:40:07,502 As I am now, I'm just living on borrowed time. 738 01:40:09,045 --> 01:40:15,635 When that time ends, I'll disappear with the snow. 739 01:40:18,763 --> 01:40:22,516 Sister, do you live around here? 740 01:40:29,482 --> 01:40:32,777 Your life has no home, huh? 741 01:40:35,738 --> 01:40:40,326 Hey, brother... 742 01:40:41,786 --> 01:40:43,412 Have a good time with me. 743 01:40:43,579 --> 01:40:46,290 Just a streetwalker, huh? Get lost. 744 01:40:46,457 --> 01:40:48,751 Don't say such cruel things. 745 01:41:16,570 --> 01:41:18,864 Here, eat this. 746 01:41:21,659 --> 01:41:22,451 Go on. 747 01:41:40,428 --> 01:41:41,679 Delicious. 748 01:41:50,438 --> 01:41:55,234 Don't I smell? 749 01:42:01,949 --> 01:42:02,950 Doesn't bother me. 750 01:42:03,117 --> 01:42:05,119 Sniff much harder. 751 01:42:06,871 --> 01:42:08,664 I was told... 752 01:42:09,832 --> 01:42:11,500 It's not that a part of me stinks, 753 01:42:12,251 --> 01:42:16,255 but my whole body and heart, the whole of me. 754 01:42:25,765 --> 01:42:28,267 I can't tell because I stink, too. 755 01:42:37,068 --> 01:42:41,155 What's your name? 756 01:42:43,491 --> 01:42:44,575 Yataro. 757 01:42:46,494 --> 01:42:47,411 Yataro. 758 01:42:47,578 --> 01:42:50,247 And yours? 759 01:42:55,169 --> 01:42:58,047 If you're on borrowed time, you won't have a name. 760 01:43:00,132 --> 01:43:01,592 I have a birthplace. 761 01:43:01,759 --> 01:43:03,219 Where? 762 01:43:03,719 --> 01:43:06,389 Shiroishi in the Oshu district. 763 01:43:08,891 --> 01:43:11,060 Like the tale of Shiraishi in Oshu... 764 01:43:12,770 --> 01:43:16,774 How about Miyagino? 765 01:43:18,275 --> 01:43:19,652 Miyagino? 766 01:43:20,945 --> 01:43:26,158 She's a character in a famed Kabuki play that's played by a female impersonator. 767 01:43:27,493 --> 01:43:30,579 It doesn't cost money to have a name. 768 01:43:30,996 --> 01:43:32,957 It's no problem to have a name. 769 01:43:36,419 --> 01:43:37,837 Miyagino. 770 01:43:41,006 --> 01:43:42,383 You don't like it? 771 01:43:45,219 --> 01:43:46,679 I do. 772 01:44:23,215 --> 01:44:26,135 Summer 1795 773 01:44:27,428 --> 01:44:29,805 One and all. 774 01:44:30,389 --> 01:44:35,144 The case that has been in the news, 775 01:44:35,644 --> 01:44:39,398 concerning the murder of Toshusai Sharaku, 776 01:44:39,565 --> 01:44:43,486 is merely a rumor. 777 01:44:43,652 --> 01:44:48,657 Sharaku himself, with his publisher, concocted this foolish ruse. 778 01:44:48,824 --> 01:44:52,703 Now, Sharaku is born anew 779 01:44:52,870 --> 01:44:57,082 and will publish his works again 780 01:44:57,249 --> 01:45:00,544 for the pleasure of the general public. 781 01:45:00,711 --> 01:45:04,507 Please laugh off this ruse as a bad joke 782 01:45:04,673 --> 01:45:08,969 and continue to show your support 783 01:45:09,136 --> 01:45:15,518 by purchasing a Sharaku print today! 784 01:45:35,204 --> 01:45:39,083 Toshusai Sharaku's murder is a rumor. 785 01:45:40,376 --> 01:45:42,878 It was all a bad joke. 786 01:45:58,519 --> 01:46:01,397 To make something black look white 787 01:46:01,981 --> 01:46:04,733 is quite an accomplishment coming from you. 788 01:46:05,442 --> 01:46:07,736 Don't you think, Yataro? 789 01:46:09,989 --> 01:46:16,537 Or shall I say, the new-born Great Master Sharaku. 790 01:46:39,768 --> 01:46:41,729 What a gamble! 791 01:46:42,563 --> 01:46:45,941 It couldn't have been you that dreamed it up. 792 01:46:49,028 --> 01:46:53,824 It must have been the publisher's plot. 793 01:46:56,076 --> 01:46:58,162 That big trickster raccoon. 794 01:47:01,498 --> 01:47:06,837 For the public, Sharaku was a mystery. 795 01:47:08,297 --> 01:47:12,885 No one will notice that his face has been replaced. 796 01:47:18,015 --> 01:47:21,810 The border between origin and copy 797 01:47:22,811 --> 01:47:26,857 disappeared long ago. 798 01:47:31,737 --> 01:47:37,076 The very existence of Sharaku has become a bad joke. 799 01:47:43,290 --> 01:47:46,794 Here, I'll give you a little something. 800 01:48:18,909 --> 01:48:24,248 You cannot do better than that. 801 01:48:30,462 --> 01:48:36,260 That was the grandest work in your Sharaku life. 802 01:48:43,475 --> 01:48:45,978 Well, Sharaku... 803 01:48:48,021 --> 01:48:52,192 That woman, who gave her life for you, 804 01:48:52,735 --> 01:48:55,779 what on earth did she leave you? 805 01:49:07,583 --> 01:49:11,420 In Sharaku's portraits of Kabuki actors there is one called "Miyagino," 806 01:49:11,587 --> 01:49:14,840 a role performed by female impersonator Nakayama Tomisaburo. 807 01:49:36,779 --> 01:49:41,366 Miyagino – Mariya Tomoko 808 01:49:44,328 --> 01:49:48,874 Yataro – Kataoka Ainosuke VI 809 01:49:51,543 --> 01:49:54,046 Madam - Kiki Kirin 810 01:49:56,215 --> 01:50:00,803 Okayo – Satsukawa Aimi 811 01:50:03,889 --> 01:50:08,310 A Man like Toshusai Sharaku – Kunimura Jun 812 01:52:29,826 --> 01:52:32,037 English translation - Mari Boyd 813 01:52:32,204 --> 01:52:34,414 Subtitles - Aya Ogawa 814 01:52:37,042 --> 01:52:44,299 Director - Yamazaki Tatsuji 54541

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