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Boss!

Are you all right? Boss?

Shut up!

What's wrong?

You all right? Boss?!!!

Boss!

Boss!!!

Get back!

Boss!

Whoa!

Cool!!!

Boss!

Can you hear it?

My... My voice!

Of course I heard you, try saying "Dororo"! Dororo!!!

Dororo!!!

What did you just say?!

Dororo! Dororo! Dororo!!!

What? What? Say it!

Dororororo, Dororo!

Say it! Hyakki-maru!

Dororo!!!

What? What? What?!!!

Dororo! Dororo! Dororo!!!

Dororo!

Damn... How far are they planning to go?

I sense something...

So that's what it was!

I sense something else!

Yes!

Boss!

You...

Are his offspring?

If you want to hate,

hate your father...

Yes! You did it!

You did it, boss!

Hey, boss!

Idiot,

why isn't it the left arm?

You enjoy my company that much? You blockhead!

Hmm?

What?

Are you angry at me?

I'm just joking.

My...

Father...

It's pretty big.

Yeah, it's big.

It's the ruins of the old border.

All these used to stand in a line?

Yeah.

This side is Kanayama.

And that side is Daigo's territory.

And...

That's Daigo's castle.

I didn't even want to come here, but the path always lead me here.

And every time I see it, that stupid castle gets bigger!

Do you have a grudge against him?

It's more than just a grudge!

The one who killed my parents...

Is that bastard Daigo Kagemitsu!

Not just that bastard,

I'll hunt down and slaughter every single person in his clan!

Where's the traitor?

Come out!

Stop hiding and come out!

If there are those who conspire to revolt,

we will burn down the entire villege!

That is Daigo's policy!

Traitor!

Come out!

Your target is right here!

Husband!

Take my head if you want,

But in exchange,

spare the lives of the villegers...

I will be aveng...

Don't cry.

You are a boy.

Your daddy told you.

You are a boy.

You can only cry when...

One day...

When you come across a real man like your father.

One day you will truly desire to become a woman... But until then...

You have to be a strong man!

That's a sad story.

I'm not trying to get you to sympathize with me!

Damn it...

He's laughing.

He thinks we are foolish.

The way we crawl and hide,

how we fight each other and live in poverty... He find it all amusing!

Shut up!

We are living things!

What's so funny with living things trying their best to live?!

You idiot!!!

Servants of Daigo?

Probably.

Who are you two?

Where did you come from?!

Don't tell me you are Kanayama's remaining troops.

Kanayama?

We will search you!

Say what?!

Stop with the nonsense, you dumbass!

We must check if you are one of us!

What did you say?

If we weren't, we would've ran already, you moron!

Why you...

You are not going to finish them off?

Killing these fools won't solve anything.

You want to job, huh?

Hmm...

Well, if you don't mind working in construction,

I can introduce you to someone.

I see.

He might prove to be useful.

You, over there.

Are you looking for an employer?

Then I can introduce you to the most generous employer around here.

Me.

Come.

Are you blind?

I have eyes in my mind.

What is your name?

Hyakki-maru.

Interesting...

My name is

Tahou-maru.

My father's name is

Daigo Kagemitsu.

Lately,

Kanayama's remaining troops and other lowlives are after my life and my father's.

They are waiting for us to get careless.

Drink.

What if that is not Sake,

and it's a powerful poison that can kill even a buffalo?

So, you can tell it's not.

Can I ask you one thing?

What's your view on Daigo Kagemitsu?

Is he a devil created by the war that lasted more than 40 years?

Or a demon who leads the poor further into poverty?

Why ask me?

I wonder why...

Either way,

Unless someone unites this land,

the war in this world will never end.

But who...

Wishes for that unification more than anyone else?

I will fight alongside my father,

and stablize this world torn by war.

Eventually I will inherit this castle and country.

Come.

I want you to meet my father.

Is it you, Tahou-maru?

Mother, it's a perfect timing.

I found a man who may prove to be useful.

His name is...

Hyakki-maru.

You head is held up too high!

She is my mother.

You...

You...

Where did you get this piece of cloth?!

What...

What are you trying to do?!

It's obvious.

This abomination...

What's the point of raising him?!

No!

He is living and moving!

He is your son!

If you don't want him to be killed here,

You go and throw him away!

Mother.

What's wrong?

Tahou-maru has...

Tahou-maru has...!

Come back!

Mother!

Madam.

Madam...

Mother!

I'm sorry but... I'm going to come back some other time.

Wait, Hyakki-maru.

What's going on?!

I will not allow you to leave this castle,

until you explain everything...

There's no mistake about it.

Fate has brought him here!

I don't see any other explanations!

I can no longer lie to myself.

I was so stupid.

I gave the name of an abandoned son to another son.

Tahou-maru, Tahou-maru!

Was I calling the name of his older brother I abandoned as I was looking at the younger brother's face,

Or was I just calling the name of the younger brother standing right in front of me...

We shouldn't have sent him down the river.

You are right.

We should have killed him.

Then you would not be delirious as you are now.

I am not delirious!

You must not have forgotten either.

That design on the cloth!

Shut up!

That is delusion talking!

Him coming back in full form, with all his body parts intact...

Is simply impossible!

Did you find him?

No.

Here.

It's still only noon, but the town is already going crazy.

I don't know what's going on, but we can't let our guard down in here either.

What's up?

Did something go wrong?

I can...

No longer be with you.

Huh?

Your sworn enemy,

Daigo Kagemitsu is...

Is my father.

Say what?

My mother's name is Yuri.

My younger brother's name is Tahou-maru.

I found that out in the castle today.

Stop joking arou...

I'm not joking around!

Dororo,

take my hand.

I'll send everything I saw and heard into the castle... Into your head.

Do you want to kill me?

Then stab me!

Kill me!

If you won't, then I'll be leaving.

I will never...

Show up before you again.

I didn't...

Get my heart back yet.

At last, the time has come.

You!

You still have something to say?!

It's been a long time since we meet again.

Chief priest.

What exactly has happened here?

Daigo...

Kagemitsu has...?

48 parts of his child's body.

He had sold them to demons in exchange for the power to conquer the world.

The son just born into this world had been given nothing,

and is about to be abandoned.

I will never regret it.

Do you hate Daigo Kagemitsu?

Of course.

All my suffering...

Was my true parent's fault.

I want to cut off 48 parts of his body!

Yeah, I bet you would!

But you can't do that.

Why not?

Of course because he's still your father!

No matter what,

you can't kill your own father!

That's why...

This is good bye with you!

Have you seen the young man Tahou-maru had brought here today?

Yes.

Find him... For me.

Fate is cruel.

Hatred and vengence...

Only accumulate like snow.

Are you telling me...

To give up on my revenge?

I know fully well he did nothing wrong.

But old man...

If I gave up on my revenge...

What about my parents' sadness?

What about their hatred?

Who will clear their honor after they died to keep me alive?!

Tell me, old man!

I will slay...

Every single last one of you!

Does it hurt?

Does the blood and flesh you regained hurt?

Pitiful child...

Abandoned by parents, loathed by the world.

Yet you still continue to live with one hope:

Even if your parents abandoned you,

once you get back your body, you thought they would embrace you.

You thought they would praise your accomplishment.

But...

It was all nothing but a dream!

Shut up!

You demons! What do you know?!

No matter how many parts of body you regain,

your dream will never come true!

Then, what do you have to gain by killing us?

What do you have to gain?

Then, what would you do?

Then, what would you do?

Will you kill your own father with that blade on your left arm?

Or...

Will you slit your own throat with that blade on your left arm?

Slit your own throat?

Then, you can die peacefully.

Peacefully...

You can die,

without suffering.

Someone...

Please kill me...

Dororo?

I will...

I'll give up on my revenge!

So you too...

Live your life to the fullest!

Where to, mother?

Tahou-maru...

Are you referring to me?

Or is it...

Lord! What have you...

Lord, please...

Please go back to your room.

The world outside the castle is filled with chaos.

Tahou-maru...

Why...

Why?!

Tahou-maru!

Madam, madam...

Please wait.

Take my mother to her room.

Don't let her out even if she orders you to prepare the horses.

Otherwise...

I will behead you myself!

These last 20 years...

I have fought on for the last 20 years,

yet the land still remains unconquered.

Is the path of unification of the world...

Too long to walk in a single lifetime?

Don't be foolish, Kagemitsu.

Unification of the world is within your reach.

However, Kagemitsu...

There is one person blocking the path.

My son?

Your weakness, unable to see past the fact that he is a human,

resulted into this nuisance.

If you leave this matter untended, he will take away everything from you.

Do not underestimate him just because he is but one man.

Immediately send all men and turn him into a pool of blood!

Lord!

The prince and the queen...

Lord!

Leave this to us...

I will settle...

This battle brought by fate!

So that's Daigo's...

Yeah.

World is a barren place.

Yeah.

But you know...

The sea is even worse!

I've never seen it though.

For some reason...

You seem to be a lot smaller than before.

Hey, take a look.

You liked these didn't you?

Ever since you were a kid.

They appear beautiful...

Even to these cursed eyeballs.

You're covered in mud.

You idiot!

If you don't like me covered in mud, then don't look at me!

What's this flower called?

I don't know, it's a flower!

And this is grass.

And this is soil.

It's nobody's territory.

It's a stupid war.

Run.

No.

Give me your sword!

Old man.

Leaver her to me.

You bastard! Let me go!

Don't, you'll only get in his way.

Just see it through.

I don't care whether or not you are my brother.

I will kill you!

Why...

Why do you want to kill me?

There is only one Tahou-maru in this world!

Stop!

It's a pointless fight.

I am the real Tahou-maru!

Tahou-maru!

Tahou-maru!

Tahou-maru!

Tahou-maru!

Tahou-maru!

Tahou-maru...

Tahou-maru!!!

You cannot.

You cannot!

He is our last son.

This son...

This son...

I will protect him!

Why did you kill my mother?

So you are Hyakki-maru?

Why did you kill my mother?!

Wait, Hyakki-maru!

Hyakki-maru!

Don't be the bastard who murdered his own father for a scum like him!

You don't have to go to hell too!

Hey, Hyakki-maru!

Where did you get that body?

My father...

Made it for me.

Is he...

A human being?

I see.

I don't have the tiniest regret of selling your body to the demons.

Otherwise,

the Daigo clan would've been obliterated.

Do you want to kill me?

Hesitation in battle field can cost your life.

If you want to kill me,

don't hesitate and kill me!

What's wrong?

Why don't you finish me off?

If he can abandon his hatred,

I will abandon my hatred as well!

Tahou-maru believed in you.

That you two would one day make an ideal world together.

Don't let his death be in vain.

Kagemitsu.

Tahou-maru...

Do you...

Love this son?

Then...

I can bring him back to life for you.

What is it...

That you want?

Your...

Body...

Do you intend to...

Take my country?

But...

Eventually I will let this son succeed the throne.

No!

Don't be foolish!

If you want, you can have my life.

So don't let a demon possess the body of a country's leader!

There will be more who will cry.

There will be more children abandoned by their parents.

That's why...

Father.

Father!

It's me.

It's Tahou-maru.

Don't be deceived!

He's a demon!

Father...

My body...

Take my body!

Very well!

This country is mine!

You just wait with your neck ready!

Thousands, millions of my soldiers will surround you soon!

Father...

Kill me!

Hurry!

Kill it... Together with me!

Hyakki-maru!

How can I...

Let something so stupid...

Happen?!!!

Father!

Father!

Tahou-maru.

You will succeed...

This country...

What are you talking about?

You can still conquer it.

You have grown up to be strong.

Don't mess around!

Apologize to him!

If you are going to die, apologize, then die!

What is...

Your name?

It's Dororo!

Take care of him for me.

Take care of Hyakki-maru!

Father!

Get away from me!

Hey,

Hey, Hyakki-maru!

Hyakki-maru!

Hey,

Hyakki-maru!

Hey!

It's strange...

The pain in my heart...

Doesn't go away.

Follow my father,

protect my mother,

and kill everyone who stands in our way.

I thought it would be like that forever, yet...

Now, only the two of us remain.

To rule over the people...

Is harder than anything you can imagine.

If we are talking about the entire world,

then even more so.

I want you to succeed this castle's throne.

Do you not want to?

There are still half remaining.

Until I settle things with all the demons,

I can't do anything else.

And I have to learn more about people's happiness and sadness.

Then I will wait.

I will wait for the return of my brother, the rightful ruler of this country.

I will eagerly await.

You are not going to wait for him?

No.

Nothing good can happen from wishing for too much.

Everyone has their own path, right?

I have mine,

he has his.

I have my own path too, huh?

You are late, Dororo.

I...

I still won't become a woman!

I will be a man forever!

Right.

That's what I expected to hear.

Boss...

Don't be letting your guard down, you idiot!

Yo, yo, yo, yo!

Don't forget,

I'm a lone wolf.

"He came, and he took", that's me!

[[- Translated by: 8thSin -]]

It was true.

Huh?

The sea is a rough place!

[[- See you again in Dororo 2 and 3! -]]

[24 Demons left.]

[Embracing emptiness in my heart, dangling my dream, TAKE OFF towards the future at second floor]

[Even if I turn into ashes]

[I gave up, and started afresh, but I still seem to hate myself]

[I will continue believing in lies attached to my body]

[How fast should I go? Where should I go first?]

[I've carefully made decisions for this and that, but in the end they just backfired]

[Even if a woman said "I love you" to me,]

[It's nothing more than words being exchanged]

[Even if I realized this while unhooking it, I'll just keep thrusting my hips]

[Burdened by loneliness, connected by love, TAKE OFF from 2B basement of the past]

[Leap like a hyena]

[I tripped and fell behind, then caught up, so I got some of my pride back, but]

[What I grasped in my hand... Was another FAKE]

[Sound diving in, image in my eyes]

[Take a break for a while, clear my mind]

[What can you see? Whose voice do you hear?]

[How long... Can I embrace you?]

[[- Tsumabuki Satoshi as "Hyakki-maru" -]]

[[- Shibasaki Kou as "Dororo" -]]

[[- Eita as "Tahou-maru" -]]

[[- Harada Mieko as "Yuri" -]] (Dororo's mother)

[[- Nakata Kiichi as "Daigo Kagemitsu" -]]

[[- Nakamura Katsuo as "Biwa Houshi" -]] (The bard)

[[- Harada Yoshio as "Jukai" -]] (The spell caster)

[[- Theme song: Mr. Children - FAKE -]]

[[- Based on "Dororo" (Manga) by Tezuka Osamu -]]

[[- Scriptwriter: Nakamura Masaru -]]

[[- Producer: Hirano Takashi -]]

[[- Music: Yasukawa Gorou -]]

[[- Camera: Shibanushi Takahide -]]

[[- Action Director: Ching Siu-tung -]]

[[- Director: Shiota Akihiko -]]