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NEW ZATO ICHI (SHIN - ZATO ICHI)

- ''I had a strange dream Iast night...

Planning by: KUBODERA Ikuo NAKAMOTO Itsuro (Fuji TV) ARAI Chu (Fuji TV) - ''I had a strange dream Iast night...

- ''I had a strange dream Iast night...

Producers: NISHIOKA Hiroyoshi SANADA Masanori - ''I had a strange dream Iast night...

- ''I had a strange dream Iast night...

Original Story by: SHIMOZAWA Kan Screenplay by: SATO Shigeko - ''I had a strange dream Iast night...

Original Story by: SHIMOZAWA Kan Screenplay by: SATO Shigeko

Original Story by: SHIMOZAWA Kan Screenplay by: SATO Shigeko ''I dreamed, I cried, and I woke up...

''I dreamed, I cried, and I woke up...

Cast ''I dreamed, I cried, and I woke up...

''I dreamed, I cried, and I woke up...

KATSU Shintaro ''I dreamed, I cried, and I woke up...

''I dreamed, I cried, and I woke up...

''BIue sky, white cIouds...

UTSUNOMIYA Masayo ''BIue sky, white cIouds...

UTSUNOMIYA Masayo

UTSUNOMIYA Masayo ''Red flowers bIown by the wind...

''Red flowers bIown by the wind...

KISHIDA Shin ''Red flowers bIown by the wind...

''Red flowers bIown by the wind...

NITTA Shogen ''Red flowers bIown by the wind...

NITTA Shogen

NITTA Shogen ''I thought the worId was dark...

''I thought the worId was dark...

HAT(AcihilT Dsu Act to orm )u KATSUBE Nobuyuki ''I thought the worId was dark...

''I thought the worId was dark...

''It is brighter and more fun...

MASUToMI Nobutaka KIKUcHI Kenichi HoSoKAWAAkira MIYAJIMA Makoto ''It is brighter and more fun...

''It is brighter and more fun...

MATSUMoTo Kazuya MIZUNo Yoshiyuki FUJII Taeko oKAJIMATsuyako ''It is brighter and more fun...

''It is brighter and more fun...

TATSUMI Ryutaro ''It is brighter and more fun...

TATSUMI Ryutaro

TATSUMI Ryutaro ''I feIt a joy, I feIt a warmth...

''I feIt a joy, I feIt a warmth...

Directed by: OTA Akikazu ''I feIt a joy, I feIt a warmth...

Directed by: OTA Akikazu

''Then I cried.''

YEARNING FOR A FATHER (Chichi Koi Komoriuta) ''Then I cried.''

- Ichi-chan...

- Yes.

I thought I heard someone caII my name.

Excuse me...

- Mommy! Mommy!

Mommy! Mommy!

- Excuse me...

Is something wrong?

- PIease... take this boy to Oiwake...

- Mommy!

Where are you going?

- That way.

- Let's go together.

- We're going in different directions.

Sonny... do you have a father?

- I do.

- Then go to your dad.

- I don't know where he is.

- What is his name?

- Ichi!

- Ichi?

What is your name?

- Ichizaemon!

- That's a nice name.

- What is your name, mister?

- Ichi.

- Are you my dad?

- That's a beehive. You'II get stung.

- I'm not scared!

- Oh, yeah?

I Iove naughty boys.

- Look, bees!

Run!

Bees!

- I'm Ieaving the money here.

- Were you reaIIy sIeeping earIier?

I can't teII since you aIways have your eyes cIosed.

- Ichi-chan...

Ichi-chan.

- Yes?

- Stupid. Not you. I'm taIking to Ichizaemon.

Come.

Come.

- Hey, he's caIIing you. Do you know him?

- I don't know him.

- You may not know me, but I know you. Come.

Don't get tough with me.

Or you'II end up crossing the River Styx.

- I'm not going to a coId pIace Iike that.

- Come! Ichizaemon, come!

- Let go! You're hurting me!

- If you want my services, just ring the beII.

- Ichi?

Is he Zato Ichi?

This is going to become troubIesome.

- Does the bee sting hurt?

I'm sorry.

- Too bad!

Anyone eIse?

You can win 1 ryo!

Anybody want to try?

- The prize is 1 ryo.

- 1 ryo?

- Anybody want to try for 1 ryo? Anyone?

- He wiII.

- 3 mon for a stroke.

- I'II try a stroke.

Can I have my 1 ryo?

- Of course...

I'd Iike to pay you for it, but...

I charge onIy 3 mon for a stroke, so...

Hey, bring it.

- We're both poor, I know.

Thanks for the fun.

- Say... are you Zato Ichi-san?

You're awfuIIy skiIIed, aII right.

I'm Tsumugi Orin, the boss of this turf.

- Is that so.

- You are Zato Ichi-san, aren't you?

- Yes.

- I'd Iike to offer you a drink at my pIace.

- How kind of you.

I'm traveIing with a chiId this time.

I'II come again another time, if you don't mind.

- I'm sorry I didn't notice.

True, it won't be good for the chiId to see how things are in our worId.

PIease come by when you're feeIing up to it.

I'II be waiting for you.

- Thank you.

Was she a beauty?

- No... my mommy was much prettier.

- Put this on, and wait here.

You brat!

Is it good?

- Ah! It's the bee man!

You're injured.

- I'II be intruding.

- Gramps, it's safe now.

- Thanks.

- Let me heIp you.

- Thanks.

- This works best for cuts.

- So you know that.

- You're using your IoincIoth!

- WiII you keep quiet?

It's washed.

The wound shouId cIose in about 2 to 3 days.

- Thanks for aII your heIp, Ichi-san.

- How do you know my name?

- I knew who you were from the time I first met you.

- Are you... ?

- I'm just an oId farmer now.

But I used to be known as Yasaburo before.

- The big boss, Yasaburo?

- I used to be famous before.

- No wonder you had a different air about you.

You used to stake your kubi (head) in the fieId...

so you were known as 'Kubi' no Yasaburo Oyabun-san.

I've heard a Iot about you.

''SILK''

- This is the pIace. Come in.

Is anyone around?!

- WeIcome back!

EIder! You're hurt!

- Not so Ioud!

I don't want Orin to find out!

- Is this the Tsumugi gang?

- Yes, it is.

- Why, you're Ichi-san!

- Ichi-san, Ichi-san, Ichi-san. - Yes.

- I thought we were going to drink aII night.

- WeII...

- ..is here.

- Who?

- The Iady from earIier.

- Oh, pIease come in.

He wouIdn't agree to stay, even when I asked him.

- Oh, yeah.

Come on in. - Come.

- Come here, come here.

- PIease come in.

- Thank you.

- Ichi-san. - Yes.

- PIease try this.

- Why, thank you.

- How do you Iike it?

- It's deIicious.

Where's the EIder?

- He had Ichizaemon put him to sIeep.

- Put him to sIeep?

- It shouId be the other way around, don't you think?

- Is that so...

- Why, you IittIe deviI... !

- I won!

- You IittIe deviI!

- He's not asIeep yet.

- He's such a probIem.

- Orin-san, did you find that ronin?

- No...

He might have Ieft town aIready.

Oh, thanks.

Ichi-san... -Yes.

I'm going to ask you something strange. Do you know who that ronin is?

- No.

- Orin-san...

The moon is beautifuI tonight.

Isn't it a fuII moon?

- Thirteen years have passed since.

You've come back, after aII.

- It's our father's memoriaI.

I came to pay him tribute.

But I faiIed to kiII that oId man.

- Brother...

pIease Ieave town quietIy.

You shouIdn't hate UncIe Yasaburo for it.

Dad went after UncIe's Iife for the money.

He was a hired assassin.

- Orin! - But that's the truth.

- It doesn't change the fact that Yasaburo kiIIed him.

- Brother... do you insist on going after UncIe's Iife?

- I'II kiII him.

Why?

SmeII me! This is the smeII of an assassin.

I made it this far because of Yasaburo!

I Iived in bIoody heII, to get my revenge on him!

- Weren't you pIanning to die with him?

That's not right.

I can't Iet someone nice Iike you, die.

Isn't that right, Orin-san?

- Ichi-san...

When I was seven...

My brother and I waited for our dad, here.

We beIieved our dad's words that he wouId sureIy return.

We were so IoneIy.

Then my brother and I started to cry...

Back then, my brother was timid and kind.

The days and nights wouId go by...

Our dad never came back.

- Did the EIder kiII him?

- No.

My dad had consumption.

He was hired to kiII UncIe, so he went after his Iife...

But in the middIe of the fight, he coughed bIood.

UncIe kindIy saw him to his death...

Moreover, he Iistened to the pIeas of the man who went after his Iife, and took us in.

But my brother couId never recover from the Ioss of our dad.

He was determined to kiII Yasaburo for it.

So he Ieft the house.

Aren't I an awfuI woman?

I Iive as a femaIe boss.

When I entered this worId, UncIe scoIded me a Iot.

He wanted me to Iead a straight Iife.

But I thought if my brother ever came after UncIe's Iife,

then I wouId stake my Iife to protect UncIe.

- Orin-san...

Some things can be beyond your controI.

I'm going to work now.

- So you made a 12 miIe trip from Oiwake...

So where's the money?

- Make this the Iast time you take advantage...

- There's an awesome guy caIIed Zato Ichi invoIved.

A coupIe hundred ryo won't be enough to resoIve it.

Your master sure Ieft a troubIesome wiII.

He had a Iegitimate heir with his wife, yet...

He wants his oId Iover's chiId to take over.

- That is why I'm going to kiII that chiId for the Madam and Young Master.

- Stop pretending to be a IoyaI servant.

- What?

- I heard that young master Iooks exactIy Iike you.

Greed and Iove... come hand in hand.

You're a reaI viIIain.

- Thanks for caIIing on me.

- I didn't caII for a masseur.

- I heard the beII ring.

I thought you needed more treatment.

Is he the one who needs it?

- You're hurting me.

Don't kiII me.

- You'II soon feeI reIieved.

Thanks for waiting. You're next.

- No, No! Give me a break on it.

I'm the cIerk of an oiI deaIer in Oiwake.

My master impregnated a girI at an inn in Nadare.

Her name is Osaki.

At his deathbed, he wiIIed Osaki and her son Ichizaemon

to inherit his fortune.

Isn't that too crueI to his wife?

I was wrong... The master had good reason to do that.

He knew about my affair with his wife.

I was wrong... PIease forgive me.

PIease entrust Ichizaemon to me.

I promise to raise him weII and make him a fine heir.

- Aren't you under a wrong impression?

He doesn't want a rotten fortune Iike that.

He doesn't want to return to a pIace where there are rotten peopIe Iike you.

Just stay away from him.

Got it?

- Yes.

- Do you understand? - Yes!

Thank you...

Thank you. PIease take care.

- I don't want it!

- Just put it on!

Say, Orin-san...

Leave the EIder to me.

If anything shouId happen between you and your brother,

your dad wiII grieve in his grave.

Now put on this kimono!

You're such a brat!

- Gramps!

Wait up!

- It's not nice to Ieave us behind Iike that.

- Are you tagging aIong? You shouId take it easy.

This is my castIe.

- It's a nice pIace.

- We're aImost there.

- CIerk. Look at aII the men that I've gathered.

Be generous with the fee.

- SmeIIs nice.

- It's my hobby to grow chrysanthemums.

OId Iady, we have guests!

Sonny, do you want to become my son?

- Yes, I wiII.

- WiII you reaIIy?

- But you have to take in my dad, too.

- Oh, sure.

Ichi-san... - Eh?

- Isn't it about time you settIed down?

How about becoming a farmer with me?

I think I can get aIong with you.

It's not good to traveI with a chiId.

- How oId are you?

- Seventy-five... maybe six.

I forgot aIready.

- You've aged, haven't you?

- No, no.

Aren't you afraid of dying?

- That scares me most.

- It scares me, too.

Just the thought of it

makes me wet my pants. That's how scared I get.

That's precious to me.

- What a bad habit he has!

- What are you doing?! Stop it!

FooIs!

- I'm taking the kid.

If you want him back, then heIp me.

- It's a quiet pIace isn't it?

- I have the kid!

Zato Ichi, stay put right there!

If you want to save the boy, oId man

then meet me up at the shrine.

AIone!

- If you go, Ichi-san, the boy wiII die.

- If you go, the both of you wiII end up dying.

PIease Iet him rest here for a whiIe.

- Dad!

- Hand it over.

Or the boy wiII die.

- PIease take it.

Stay out of my way!

Scum Iike you are better off dead.

- Untie me!

- You get tied up Iike this because you're naughty.

- You're bIeeding.

- Don't wet your bed again.

- Gramps!

- Ichi-san... so you're aIive.

- He won't untie the rope.

- Ichi-san... PIease untie him for me.

- No. This is a good Iesson for a brat Iike him.

- You're persistent.

- I won't untie the rope unIess he promises not to wet his bed anymore.

- You can finaIIy join your dad now.

- Was that...?

- The man you just kiIIed was Orin's oIder brother.

Are you pIanning to hit the road?

I've taken a Iiking to you.

PIease take me to heII with you.

- I'II go, too!

- I'II take you aIong, too.

What are you doing?

Let me go!

We both Iike you a Iot!

- If I take him on my traveIs with me, then his future

wiII be bIeak, too.

PIease raise him as your son.

PIease.

- FooI. FooI!

FOOL..!

FooI..!!

Staff

Photography by: WATANABE Mitsugu Art Direction by: OTA Seiichi Lighting by: MIMA Hiroshi Sound Recording by: OSUMI Masao

Editor: TANIGUCHI Toshio Sound Editing: HAYASHI Tsuchitaro Sound EFFects: KURASHIMA Nobu Sword Fight Choreography: KUSUMOTO Eiichi

Assistant Director: OGURA Yoji Continuity: SATO Toshiko Production Chief: ADACHI Genichiro Script Supervisor: ANDO Jinichiro

Set Design: BABA Masao Moving EFFects: MURAKAMI Kiyomi Makeup: YUMOTO Hideo Hair: ISHII Emi Manager: NISHIMURA Shigeki

Set Decoration: KANSAI BIKO Wardrobe: KYOTO COSTUMES Wigs: YAMAZAKI WIGS FiIm Processing: TOYO LABORATORY LTD.

Music by: MURAI Kunihiko Performed by: HIDAKA Tomiaki & FIRE

Theme Song: ''A Strange Dream'' Lyrics by: NAKANISHI Rei Composed by: MURAI Kunihiko HIDAKA Tomiaki Arrangement by: MURAI Kunihiko Sung by: ISHIHARA Yujiro TEICHIKU RECORDS

Produced by: KATSU PRODUCTIONS FUJITELEVISION