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Toho Co., Ltd.

"Jigokuhen" "Portrait of Hell"

Produced by: Tanaka Tomyuki

Original story by: Akutagawa Ryunosuke Screenplay by: Yasumi Toshio

Cinematographer: Yamada Kazuo Art Director: Muraki Shinobu Recording: Tone Norio Lighting: Kojima Masashichi Sound: Shimonaga Hisashi

Music by: Akutagawa Yasushi Performed by the Tokyo Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Akutagawa Yasushi Soundtrack album available on CBS Sony Records

Assistant Director: Yoshimatsu Yasuhiro Editor: Kuroiwa Yoshitami Costumes: Ueno Hosei Illustration: Kiyono Hisashi Film Composition: Mihei Kazunobu

Cast:

Nakamura Kinnosuke

Naito Yoko

Oide Shun Shimokawa Tappei Imafuku Masao Amamoto Hideyo Nakamura Kichijuro

Sawamura Ikio Matsueda Kinji Otowa Kumeko Uchida Yoshio Futami Tadao Okubo Masanobu

Ogawa Yasuzo Suzuki Kazuo Tanaka Hiroshi Suzuki Haruo Inomata Mitsuyo Dancing choreography by: Hanayagi Morihiko Swordfight choreography by: Kuze Ryu

Nakadai Tatsuya

Directed by: Toyoda Shiro

About 950 years ago, during the Heian period...

...the Fujiwara clan was at the peak of its political power.

Move it.

Move it. Get out of here.

However, their stagnant politics inflicted great harm upon the realm.

Minor natural disasters resulted in famines; starved corpses littered the streets.

The common people lived lives of hopeless despair.

Even the nobility began to feel, in their heart of hearts...

...an ineffable sense of impermanence.

They lived lives of perpetual dread.

Very well. I shall return immediately.

Make the arrangements.

The paramount lord is departing!

The paramount lord is departing!

Silence! The paramount lord is departing!

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. He is departing!

Out of the way, brat.

Get out of here!

He is departing!

Hey! Quickly!

Hurry it up!

Hurry it up! Please, sir. Pay me.

Money. Please, pay me my money.

Shut up!

Please pay me my money.

Please pay me my money. What? How dare you!

Money. Please pay me money.

Impudent wretch!

How dare you demand payment from the paramount lord's retinue?

Insolence!

Drag him out of the way!

That was the paramount lord's bull...

Curse you, paramount lord... unto the 7th reincarnation!

The paramount lord...

...and his oppressive taxes. He has taken all that we have!

He has treated us like slaves.

I have become no better than an animal.

Out of the way! The paramount lord is departing!

Out of the way! The paramount lord is departing! The paramount lord is departing!

Out of the way! Move!

Yoshihide is here, is he not? Yoshihide?

Yes, sir.

Ah, Yoshihide. There you are. You may approach.

An imperial correspondence has arrived from Korea, your homeland.

Interesting.

It is written on crow's feathers.

Observe, Yoshihide. It is written in black ink on black feathers.

None of my scholars have been able to decipher it.

How, then, does one read it?

First, it is steamed over the vapors of cooking rice.

Then it is pressed onto a silk cloth, to which the ink will transfer.

That is how such secret messages are read in Korea.

Pass on these instructions to my secretary.

Yes, sir.

Yoshihide. Well done.

This is for you.

Are you averse to gold dust?

Yes. I imagined that you had summoned me today...

...to commission a painting. Thus have I come.

Great lord. I, Yoshihide, am an artist.

Would you please allow me to paint the walls of Muryoju-in Temple?

Yoshihide. If I do, then you must paint something that pleases me.

Kissho-ten: Japanese Goddess of Wealth You painted Goddess Kissho-ten as an ugly entertainer...

Fudo Myo-o: Buddhist God of Fire and Light ...and you modeled Fudo Myo-o after an imprisoned outlaw.

Yes.

Indeed, they were admittedly impressive works. However...

...you are too enamored with technique. It doesn't come from the heart.

The heart?

I want to see a mural depicting paradise on the temple walls.

You have no understanding of Buddha-dharma.

Your art is not beautiful.

You are drawn to dark and ugly things.

Your paintings do not have warmth.

Unless I have seen, with my own eyes, the truth of what I am asked to paint...

I will not even attempt to paint it!

You're as stubborn as ever.

Very well. Go paint something that I can truly appreciate.

Settle down.

You'd better calm down, or else I won't give you an orange.

You're being so fussy. What's the matter with you today?

He's jealous.

Hiromi!

Hiromi! As you were, as you were, please, Miss Yoshika.

Like this, letting your hair flow in the stream, just as you were.

Like this?

How beautiful.

My flute!

Let me have my flute back!

Let me have my flute back! No.

Yoshika! Please!

Yoshika! Please! No!

I don't want to!

I don't want to! Give it back to me, please!

Please give it back.

Please give it back. I don't want to.

I don't want to.

Yoshika! I don't want to.

Yoshika!

Yoshika! I don't want to! I don't want to!

Yoshika, let me play for you.

Yoshika!

Yoshika. What were you doing?

You... and this fellow... are you...

...in love.

Master! Please!

I won't allow it! You're expelled!

Father!

Yoshika. Come!

Hiromi!

Hiromi! Yoshi... Yoshika!

Hiromi! Father! Father!

Yoshika!

Please! Don't!

Father! Father! Father!

Father!

Did Hiromi do this icon?

Huh?

Is this Hiromi's icon?

Yes.

Master! I implore you! Let me be with Miss Yoshika!

I forbid it.

Master...

Is it because I am not of Korean descent?

Silence!

Silence! But master!

But master!

No one can have her! But master!

Get out!

Get out!

Hey.

You seem to be sad. What happened?

You're speechless? How pathetic! Why don't you tell me?

Sad people...

...unfortunate people...

...people wanting vengeance...

...there is a place where such people are known to gather.

Want me to take you there?

I'm a bandit.

I'm a bandit. A bandit?

Does that scare you, flautist?

Does that scare you, flautist? I'm an illustrator.

Draw all you want, it won't quell your anger toward this world.

Maybe so. I was expelled by my master.

Then draw for yourself!

Then draw for yourself! But...

He has taken from me something far more precious.

Then take it back by force!

Force speaks loudest!

We have that force!

Force that will take the world by surprise!

Will you join us?

Are you scared? What a coward!

Yoshika...

Yoshika...

Yoshika.

Yoshika! Yoshika! Yoshika!

Who opened this door?

Who opened this door? Master! Well, sir...

Master! Well, sir...

Who did it? Master! Well, sir...

Who did it?

Who did it? The monkey did it.

The monkey did it.

The monkey? The monkey did it.

Hiromi. Please let me hear your flute.

Hiromi.

Please take me with you! Hiromi, please play your flute!

I will go anywhere with you! Hiromi!

Ah!

Paramount lord!

Was the Korean text legible?

Was the Korean text legible? It was legible, it was legible.

Amazing, bullseye!

My lord, I have with me the imprint of the message.

The Emperor of Korea requests that you help him repel an invasion of lawless Khitans!

How shall we respond?

How shall we respond? We won't...

We won't...

My lord, that would be unlawful! We won't...

If we have to crush the Khitans, we can do it by ourselves.

However, they have gone to great lengths to...

However, they have gone to great lengths to... Enough!

Enough!

Yes, sir. Enough!

Our nation is so powerful that we don't need any allies.

Well... Where did that thing come from?

It's a perfect target!

It's a perfect target! He's mine!

He's mine!

Hey! He's mine!

Please!

Please! Come here!

Come here!

Please don't shoot him! Come here!

Please don't shoot him!

Please don't shoot him! Out of the way, you'll get shot!

He's my monkey!

He's my monkey! Get back! What insolence!

Get back! What insolence!

You mustn't shoot him! Get back! What insolence!

You mustn't shoot him!

You mustn't shoot him! Get back!

Get back!

Please don't shoot. He's my monkey! Get back!

Please don't shoot. He's my monkey!

Please don't shoot. He's my monkey! Wait. Don't harm her.

Yes, sir.

Bring her to me.

He has Yoshika? What will he do with her?

As I said... The great lord fell in love with her at first sight. He's very fond of her.

This very day, she will become his concubine.

How lucky for her! How auspicious!

Unacceptable! It's utterly unacceptable!

This is tasty... delicious!

Where is it from?

You deaf buffoon!

What... It's from far away... far away... it must be.

I won't let anyone have Yoshika.

Give Yoshika back! Yoshika is my daughter!

I've raised her all by myself. My precious, precious daughter.

Become a concubine, of all things!

Don't get carried away!

She is to become Lord Horikawa's concubine!

There is no greater honor!

Besides, didn't Yoshika run away from home to chase after a man?

Yoshika... ran away?

Yoshika... ran away? That's right.

That's right.

Lies! Lies! That's absurd! That's right.

It can't be true. It's impossible. Look!

Herald, look! These are Yoshika's things. Not one of them is missing.

Yoshika is my one and only treasure.

Please. Deliver her from this fate.

I'm only the messenger.

If you're dissatisfied, tell the paramount lord yourself!

Attention! The messenger is departing.

Sir!

So he will steal Yoshika from me, will he?

Oh yes... How is Yoshihide's daughter doing?

She is still cloistering herself.

It's blasphemous to behave so, after being honored by the paramount lord!

Leave her be, leave her be. In the end, she will be glad to be here.

Lord! I have caught the bandit!

It is all right, it is all right. It's quite entertaining! Entertaining, indeed!

Excuse me, sir. Yoshihide the Artist has just arrived with a new painting.

Oh. And what kind of picture did he draw?

Well...

Well... What is the matter?

What is the matter?

The painting is frightful. What is the matter?

So, what kind of picture is it? Speak up. And be quick about it.

Yes, sir. It is a painting of a bloody elderly man lying dead under cherry blossoms.

What? A picture of a corpse?

Not only that, it is emitting the stench of a corpse. I can still smell it from here.

Where is this painting?

Yoshihide. Let us see this masterpiece of yours.

My lord.

My lord. What is it?

What is it?

I implore you. What is it?

I implore you. I implore you.

If this is about your daughter, I will be caring for her.

She may be dear to you...

...but she is far better off living freely here than with a stubborn father like you. Be at peace.

No, paramount lord. Please give Yoshika back to me.

Denied.

Denied. Please!

Please!

Speak no more of this! Please!

Yoshihide. Where is the painting?

Oh, here it is.

Burn some incense!

Yoshihide!

What is the idea of bringing me such a painting?

It was on occasion of Daigo's cherry-blossom party.

I know. My bull was frightened by thunder, and trampled an old man to death.

I'm told that before he died, he was grateful for the honor of being killed by my bull.

Hurry and burn that incense! Make haste!

Yoshihide...

Men and women of all ages revere me as a living god.

It's a lie!

It's a lie! What?

That accident proves my point.

They do not tell you the truth about the state of the realm.

Nonsense.

Nonsense. No!

That old man cursed you with his dying breath, you and your government...

I rule the world as I see fit!

Within and without the capitol, people are impoverished and suffering from famine.

Watch how you speak to me!

Watch how you speak to me! Paramount lord!

Not another word.

Get out.

Paramount lord!

Can't you see it in his eyes?

In these eyes?

Get out!

Just a dream...

Leave me alone!

Intruder!

Who is it?

We have failed you. It was just a vulgar brigand.

Yoshihide. You must tear up that painting.

Tear it up.

Why, sir?

Do not question me. You will tear it up with your own hands.

Do you refuse?

Do you refuse, no matter what?

Did you do it?

I can always paint it again.

Yoshihide. Last night, the old man in that painting stood by my bedside.

I already know your interpretation.

You would say that your singular fury manifested as a ghost, would you not?

You are a monarch. Shouldn't you just laugh such matters off?

Touch?

How about it, Yoshihide?

Considering that you are the finest artist of your generation...

...can you paint me a Buddha that exhibits all of his most auspicious signs?

Paint paradise.

Paint a mural on the walls of Muryoju-in Temple.

It will make you immortal.

It will make you immortal. I cannot paint that.

I cannot paint that.

What? I cannot paint that.

Paramount lord, over my body and my life, you have absolute authority.

But you can never command my artist's soul.

Yoshihide.

With your realm in its current condition, where will I find...

...a face that shines with total contentment? There is no heaven in this world.

Come...

Yoshihide. Think you that the capitol of Heian is not paradise?

Paramount lord!

Sir!

Lord! A band of brigands is headed toward the mansion.

Calm yourselves.

The guards will protect us.

Don't disgrace yourselves!

They are only unruly brigands. My guards will crush them.

Paramount lord! You are in danger! Please retire to the northern wing.

Don't panic. Now leave me!

Don't panic. Now leave me! Yes, sir.

Yoshihide. Are you not fearful of the brigands?

No. What I am fearful of is the state of the realm, which permits brigands to flourish.

What?

Repeat what you said.

Perhaps haunting as ghosts, and raging as brigands, are the last resorts of the poor.

Yoshihide.

No matter how many times you crush them, as long as the world is as it is...

...you will always be plagued by brigands.

And so it is with the painting. All I have to do is paint it again...

And so it is with the painting. All I have to do is paint it again...

There, paramount lord. You have shown your true colors.

Someone bring me a sword!

Paramount lord. Please let me have my daughter back.

Denied!

Move! Move!

Yoshika. Move! I said move! I'll kill you!

Do you love your father?

Do you love the father that chased away your lover?

You love him?

You love your father, regardless?

She's far too good for the likes of a foreigner like you.

It appears that even Koreans can exhibit filial piety.

Yoshihide.

I have never seen you look happier.

Paramount lord! Paramount lord!

Calm yourselves! Escort Yoshika to safety.

Sir!

What are you guards doing? Don't let a single brigand escape alive!

Shoot down that brigand!

Hiromi.

Hiromi!

My only regret... is that we failed to kill the paramount lord.

Hiromi.

We were so close. How pathetic...

Was it you that shot the lord's hat?

Master. You expelled me, and you gave Miss Yoshika to him.

Gave her away...?

Miss Yoshika will be violated.

He will despoil Miss Yoshika.

H... Hiromi.

Miss Yoshika...

Miss Yoshika... What?

Miss Yoshika...

Hiromi.

Who goes there? Intruder! Get him!

Excuse me, sir.

Excuse me, sir. What now?

A moment ago, we found a suspicious intruder hiding near the garden pond.

So, kill him.

We captured him. It was the painter, Yoshihide.

What?

Yoshihide?

Yoshihide? What shall we do with him?

What shall we do with him?

Bring him here. What shall we do with him?

Bring him here.

Bring him here. Yes, sir.

Yoshihide. What are you doing here at this time of night?

He was playing this flute. He also had these drawings.

What is this drawing?

He was one of the attackers killed today. He was my pupil, Hiromi.

What? Your pupil became a bandit?

Yes.

I wanted my daughter to see how he died.

What?

The rest of you are dismissed.

So this man was Yoshika's lover?

Yes.

An ugly picture indeed.

Great lord.

A person like you could not understand the beauty in something that is ugly.

The expression of profound emotion is...

"Profound emotion," eh?

Paramount lord! Paramount lord!

Stay put!

Paramount lord. This is what he said to my daughter as he lay dying...

Enough! Yoshika must never learn of his death.

Time will pass, and she will forget about him.

Paramount lord. What will you do with Yoshika?

What?

Paramount lord. Please give me back my daughter.

Denied! Plead all you want!

Yoshika will never be returned to you!

Paramount lord. I, Yoshihide, know what is in your heart.

How can paradise be painted in a world ruled by one such as you?

Throw Yoshihide out!

Paramount lord! I, Yoshihide, know your heart! I know your heart! I know your heart...

Come, Yoshika.

Yoshika.

Come.

I am betrothed to someone else.

That matters not. Come.

Please be merciful.

Someone, slay the demon!

Shoot it! Shoot it! Shoot it!

Chase the apparition away! Chase the apparition away!

It was our ancestors who brought learning to Japan...

Technology... Scholarship... all of it.

But look what's happening lately.

Your paintings reflect only Japanese influences!

The influence of our Korean ancestors has been obliterated.

Yes. Work is so scarce now. It's getting much harder to make a living from art.

That's what I'm saying. All of us foreigners are struggling to make a living.

However, I hear that our Korean homeland has prospered.

What are you proposing?

Think about it, Yoshihide. So many of us are wanting to go back to Korea.

The Muryo-ji Temple mural cannot be painted without me.

It cannot be painted without me, the foreigner.

The amateur Japanese painters don't have the talent.

I can see right through the paramount lord... see how humiliated he feels.

I will fight him with my art.

Listen to us! Yoshihide!

Listen to us! Yoshihide! Yoshihide! We all beg of you!

You have a rapport with the paramount lord.

We want you to ask him for a boat to sail to Korea.

Please, Yoshihide!

Please...

Please... Please...

Denied! Going back to Korea is out of the question. All you people...

...need to quietly do your jobs, nothing else.

Over time, my fellow Koreans have become increasingly ostracized by your subjects.

What?

I surmise... that it is because they are jealous of our superior blood.

Damn your insolence!

Your ancestors were our prisoners!

Not to mention that we now have outstanding native-born scholars.

Why, some of the women in my court are accomplished authors!

If that is so, then what need have you for foreigners?

Now you're being sarcastic...

Now you're being sarcastic... No, if that's the case, then...

No, if that's the case, then...

Are you too determined to return? No, if that's the case, then...

Answer me, Yoshihide.

I will not leave without my daughter.

I see.

Yoshihide. Come!

What do you say, Yoshihide?

How about painting on this?

You will only tear it up again. There is no point in painting.

What?

My ugly painting will not please you, paramount lord.

You will not understand it.

I wouldn't understand it, you say?

In that case, Yoshihide...

Why don't you paint a portrait of Hell?

A portrait of Hell?

A portrait of Hell? You see only ugliness; why not paint it?

Well? Why aren't you answering?

I suppose even an artist of your talent cannot paint Hell.

Paramount lord. If you will permit it, I would like to paint the walls of Muryoju-in Temple.

What...? Yoshihide!

I've been waiting for you to say that. So, you will paint the mural after all?

Will you paint a Mandala? Will you paint the virtues of Buddha?

Will you make manifest the pure land of paradise on the walls of Golden Hall?

No. I want to paint Hell on the walls of the hall.

You fool!

And yet, Yoshihide... something is wrong.

Were you not the artist who paints only what he has seen?

Yes. Only the truth of which I am convinced.

So you have seen Hell?

Yoshihide. Do you concede?

No.

In this world, I can see Hell everywhere I look.

How can you, as a non-Buddhist, truly understand Hell?

There is Hell in the villages. There is Hell in the city.

There is Hell in this mansion!

The paramount lord does not understand. No, he does not want to understand!

Fine! In that case...

...paint your so-called portrait of Hell on that screen. If you create a masterwork...

...I will let you have Yoshika back.

Truly, lord?

Truly, lord? I am not lying!

I will even let you paint the walls of Golden Hall!

I will be waiting.

Kaneshige.

Kaneshige?

Sir?

Come here!

Master!

What are you doing?

What will you do to me?

Master!

Master! My chest, it hurts!

Master! Master! Master!

Are you trying to kill me? My chest! My chest!

It's not enough. This is no match for the tortures of Hell.

Please unchain me! Please unchain me!

Master! Please unchain me!

Master! Please unchain me!

Master!

Master! Please unchain me!

Master! The chain! Master! It hurts! Master!

Master!

Snake! Master! Save me! Master! Master!

Master! Save me!

Somebody... help me!

Somebody...!

Master!

Save Me!

Help!

Everyone! Pay attention!

I've written a poem!

"As I have always wished... my runaway daughter... has borne a prince."

You are most kind. I have another one.

"The world is mine... my prosperity lacks nothing..."

"...just as the moon is full."

The world is mine... my prosperity lacks nothing...

Just as the moon is full.

The world is mine.

My prosperity...

...lacks nothing.

Just as the moon is full...

Come...

I'll be waiting. Come in your carriage!

Carriage...

Come in your carriage!

Come!

Come to hell!

Step into the fires of Hell! Be engulfed by the Inferno!

Master! Master! Master!

Yoshika. Come here.

Hurry up. What are you doing?

What is the matter with you tonight?

The monkey!

Yoshika! Yoshika! Yoshika!

Hiromi! Hiromi!

Why didn't you come for me sooner? Your Yoshika is no longer who she was.

Yoshika.

Yoshika.

You say you're no longer who you were.

What do you mean by that?

Please, Yoshika. Tell me.

What do you mean?

Yoshika. Let's escape.

The paramount lord stole you from me. I'm taking back what he stole.

There is no wrong in this.

Even if we escape...

It is pointless.

I can no longer look into Hiromi's eyes.

Hiromi is dead.

He's... dead?

Yes.

Yoshika... Yoshika.

I hate you, father.

I wanted Hiromi to come and rescue me.

Yoshika!

Hiromi wasn't Korean. That's why you wouldn't permit us to be together.

That's right. How could you be so prejudiced?

I'm fed up with you and the paramount lord.

I don't understand either of you!

Father... Don't you know what happened to Uncle Chitaru and Uncle Yukibumi?

After their request to go home was denied, they tried to stow away. They were caught.

It was terrible!

Come. You too shall come.

Come to Hell!

How are you progressing, Yoshihide?

Have you completed your portrait of Hell?

Almost...

What?

Almost... One more crucial stroke, and it shall spring to life...

How could you possibly witness the agonies of Hell with mere mortal eyes?

I saw it everywhere; it was all around me.

Everywhere...?

Even here, in the capitol of Heian, where I reign?

Yes.

And the wardens of Hell?

Those of your ministers who abuse their authority, I painted as demons.

Yoshihide!

Yes?

Show it to me! Show me this "Portrait of Hell" that you're so proud of!

There's one more thing...

I must paint one more thing in order to complete it.

What's that?

Yes, paramount lord...

I want to depict, in the center of the screen...

...the infernal fires of Hell itself.

And...?

Yes...

A Chinese-style carriage...

...surrounded by fire, falls out of the sky.

And he who is in the carriage...

...gazes up at the canopy of the sky...

...as he chokes in smoke, his face twisted in the throes of agony.

He has torn off the rattan blinds, perhaps to quell the blaze with them. And then...

All around are the birds of Hell, ten of them... twenty... rattling their beaks as they fly!

If only...

So you cannot paint it, because you have not seen it?

Yes, paramount lord.

Please grant me one Chinese carriage...

...that you will set ablaze... for me to observe.

Are you trying to send me and the carriage to Hell?

Do you want me to be inside the carriage?

That, of course...

...will be decided by the will of the paramount lord.

Yoshihide...

Come...

You seek to paint the portrait of Hell, no matter what the cost?

Yes.

Expect a summons shortly.

Leave now.

Thank you very much.

Yoshihide, take a good look. Over there is the carriage I usually ride.

I'm sure you remember it.

Yes.

The carriage will now be set ablaze, and I will die an agonizing death...

...as I am overwhelmed by flames and smoke.

Your idea of using this as a model of the infernal fires of Hell...

...proves that you are indeed the greatest painter in the world. I commend you!

One thing, Yoshihide...

It will not be me... who gets into the carriage.

I am staying right here. A prisoner will be playing the part of the paramount lord.

Flesh will be burnt... bones will be charred... the suffering will be exquisite.

Observe closely, and imagine that it is me.

This will be a show for the ages.

Open the rattan blinds! Let Yoshihide see who's inside!

Sir!

Yoshihide, did you get a good look?

Let go of me! Let go!

Shall we set it on fire?

Let go! This is absurd! This is absurd!

Shall we set the carriage on fire?

Don't you want to see the infernal fires of Hell?

What say you now, Yoshihide?

Or will you prostrate yourself before me, and apologize?

Yoshihide. Apologize! Apologize! Apologize!

Never! Never!

You tricked me!

At last the paramount lord's true colors are revealed!

What?

Go to Hell... May the paramount lord descend into Hell!

Damn you...!

Right... Set it ablaze... if you dare!

Burn it if you dare! You won't do it!

Even the paramount lord wouldn't set it on fire!

You arrogant foreigner!

Burn it!

Yoshika!

The paramount lord tricked me!

He swore that you would give in if you saw me in here!

But I knew better!

I knew that this would happen! I know both of you too well!

I know both of you too well!

May you all plunge into Hell! Plunge into Hell!

Yoshika!

Yoshika!

Yoshika!

Yoshika.

Yoshika.

Hiromi...

Hiromi!

Hiromi...

Hiromi...!

Yoshika. Forgive me... Forgive me...

Hell...

Hell...

I am Hell...

This is Hell.

I will win in the end. I have no doubt...

I cannot lose...

Victory will be mine.

Without doubt... victory will be mine...

Oh, Yoshihide...

I hear your portrait of Hell is finished.

It must be an impressive depiction of the torments of the damned.

You sacrificed everything to paint the fires of Hell, even the life of your daughter.

Very well. Let's see your portrait of Hell.

Yoshihide. Why aren't you rising? Why aren't you showing me to the picture?

What's the meaning of that look? Do you have something to say?

I know. You want me to return Yoshika to you, just as I promised.

And so I shall.

Here she is.

She was burned to ashes because of you, Yoshihide.

And it's all your fault! All the result of your obstinacy!

You watched ecstatically as your daughter was burned alive.

I can no longer regard you as a human being. You are Hell!

Your infernal arrogance is the true cause of Yoshika's death.

Because of you... Yoshika now resides in Hell!

Brrrrrrrr...

Master. I have delivered the screen depicting Hell to the Horikawa mansion.

Master? Are you sleeping?

Master. When I saw the piece...

...I was struck dumb with awe!

It truly is your masterpiece! What an impressive depiction of the hell that is our life.

It will be treasured for generations.

Master...

My lord! My lord! My lord!

Forgive this intrusion!

Forgive this intrusion! What is it?

What is it?

He's dead, he hung himself! What is it?

He's dead, he hung himself!

He's dead, he hung himself! Who did?

Who did?

The artist Yoshihide. Who did?

The artist Yoshihide.

The artist Yoshihide. Nonsense! Why, Yoshihide is right here with...

Yoshihide... Yoshihide!

Yoshihide...

Yoshihide was... just... here...

That was... that was...

...an apparition!

Where is the portrait? The screen with the portrait of Hell?!

Sir, this way...

Where is it?! Where is the portrait of Hell?!

Astonishing...

Only Yoshihide could create this.

Is that me?

It's me!

It's me... me... me!

Somebody... Somebody help me!

"Life is more Hellish than Hell itself." - Akutagawa Ryunosuke

The End

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