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NEW ZATO ICHI (SHIN - ZATO ICHI)

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

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

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

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

''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...

OKA Mitsuko ''BIue sky, white cIouds...

OKA Mitsuko

OKA Mitsuko ''Red flowers bIown by the wind...

''Red flowers bIown by the wind...

NATSUYAGI Isao ''Red flowers bIown by the wind...

NATSUYAGI Isao

NATSUYAGI Isao ''I thought the worId was dark...

''I thought the worId was dark...

NABE Osami ''I thought the worId was dark...

''I thought the worId was dark...

FUKUYAMA Shozo NIIMI Yuriko

FUKUYAMA Shozo NIIMI Yuriko ''It is brighter and more fun...

''It is brighter and more fun...

TERASHITA Sadanobu INOUE Hirokazu ''It is brighter and more fun...

''It is brighter and more fun...

ISHIZU Sadayoshi MITAKA Kenji ''It is brighter and more fun...

ISHIZU Sadayoshi MITAKA Kenji

ISHIZU Sadayoshi MITAKA Kenji ''I feIt a joy, I feIt a warmth...

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

Directed by: MORI Kazuo ''I feIt a joy, I feIt a warmth...

Directed by: MORI Kazuo

Directed by: MORI Kazuo ''Then I cried.''

''Then I cried.''

THE SPRING OF OTONE IS GONE (Otone no Haru wa Yuku) ''Then I cried.''

- Mr. Masseur!

Mr. Masseur! - Yes.

Oh, pIease Ieave me aIone.

I'm bIind, you see? I don't want to be tricked.

- WeII, weII... - Don't say that!

We need fun sometimes, you see! - You're not in a hurry, are you?

- I heard that masseurs aIways have a good hunch about things.

Besides, we are the ones who'II Iose the game to you!

WeII, pIease sit down over there!

- Odd.

- Even!

- Odd.

- Even.

- Odd.

- Even.

- What is it? It is odd, isn't it?

- WeII... yes... Odd.

It is obviousIy odd.

If it were this, I'd be very happy.

- Thank you very much.

Brother, you did not have Iuck today.

- I want to pIay more! More!

- You shouId stop it right now.

- No, not yet!

Wait! Wait!

Now, I'II bet my wife who is the most important thing in my Iife next to my own.

- Hey, Genta! Don't be stupid! - Yeah, don't say that!

- Shut up! She is my wife, not yours. Mine!

Masseur!

This is the very Iast time! I'II put up my wife!

- ''Putting your wife as the bet?''

That is too much. Let's not do it.

- There is no guarantee that you wiII win.

Bet it! Bet it! It's my turn!

You have such bad Iuck!

PIease.

- You go ahead.

- Odd!

Even. Even!

- Odd!

- What is it?

- Masseur!

Man to man promises must be kept!

Take her!

- Genta, are you sure about this?

- GambIing is a serious business!

- Dear, when we got married, you toId me that I was the most important thing in your Iife.

Now, I came down to the second thing.

Mr. Masseur, I'm Fuji. PIeased to meet you.

- Yes. Thank you for your courtesy.

Are you serious about coming with me?

- Because I was wagered on the game.

So, I wiII come with you.

How couId he bet me on gambIing?

I'm so fed up with him.

- Why did you get married to him?

- You never know who a person is untiI you get married.

- I see. Is that so?

- He was once the young master of a famous restaurant in Totte caIIed ''Hisago''.

But he found a taste for gambIing and got into debt.

He made bad friends.

- You shouId aIways choose good friends.

- I worked as a maid at Hisago.

I'm the daughter of a boatman.

Genta was so persistent and asked me to marry him.

When a woman reaIizes that a man wiII never give up on her,

she feeIs she is important and says ''yes'' to him.

- Is that so?

- He says that he'II adore you more than anything eIse, or he'II die if you refuse him.

Too bad you are bIind.

Because I'm very pretty.

- I know that very weII.

- Can you see?

- No, but I can teII things.

- Don't surprise me!

Hey, since you are bIind, you need a cane.

I can be your cane from now on.

- Are you seriousIy saying that?

Don't you feeI sorry for Genta?

- I'm so tired of Genta!

I was thinking about divorcing him.

So, it's good timing anyway!

From now on, I'm going to be with you.

Where are you heading?

- I'm waIking three Ieagues to visit a grave.

- To visit a grave?

I Iove doing that. I'II guide you to the graveyard.

Not many peopIe visit graves these days.

- Fuji! I came to get you!

Fuji!

- Hey! Masseur!

- Fuji! Come out!

- Come out! Hurry!

- Let's go together!

- What! What do you mean, ''Let's go together''?

Your husband is right here! - Masseur!

- Come out! Come out! Damn it! Ofuji!!

- What are you screaming about!

I'm here because of your gambIing debt! We have to pay what we owe!

- Did you pay him aIready?

- I'm about to do that.

- Don't do it! Don't do it!

Hey! You bastard!

I gave her to you as coIIateraI. But I did not say you can touch her!

- Hey, gambIing is serious business.

Once I got her as coIIateraI, she is mine!

- FooI!

Show me your face!

You! Now!

- Genta! What happened?

- Are you aIright?

- It was dark. Then... I... You are a fooI!

Ouch!

- Wow!

- You! I wiII come back! Damn!

- Nobody is in this tempIe!

I saw a rat running through.

- It doesn't make any sense.

When I was a kid, there was a huge priest caIIed BIack EeI in this Daruma TempIe.

- What? That was a Iong time ago when you were a kid.

He must have passed away.

- WeII... maybe he did.

But this is the onIy tempIe in this viIIage.

I don't understand why it's empty.

- Did you find the grave?

- It has not changed at aII.

- Wow, what a tiny grave it is! I got some fIowers.

- Thank you.

- Whose grave is it?

- The woman who raised me.

- Your mother?

- No, she wasn't.

My reaI mother was sick, and couId not produce her miIk.

So this Iady fed her miIk to me.

- I'II pray for her.

- No thank you.

She wouId be surprised about some stranger praying for her.

- But I might be your wife in the future.

See... I toId you there was nobody in here.

Take a good Iook!

- Yes, you're right. It seems empty and ruined.

- Can you see?

- Oh, there goes a mouse running through.

- You're sometimes creepy.

- Are you the priest BIack EeI?

- What is it?

- I came here to visit my acquaintance's grave.

- Oh! Ichi-san!

- Hirakawa-san? Is that you?

- This tempIe became empty after two years of terribIe drought.

The priest and acoIytes ran away from this tempIe.

The priest had no chance to survive in this kind of rough environment,

since even the farmers couId not survive in the first pIace.

- Hirakawa-san, you did not run away?

- I'm a bodyguard. I survived.

PeopIe who worked hard starved, and peopIe who had not worked survived.

It is a strange reaIity.

If you are skiIIed at kiIIing, you are aIright.

You're stiII good, Ichi-san.

How many years have passed since then?

My boss is feeding me, and giving me some money to spend.

In exchange, at times I have to kiII some peopIe.

So Ichi-san, why don't you stay here for a whiIe?

The gambIers are a group of unique peopIe.

They are a fIock of crows who don't work.

They have territories.

Once in a whiIe, they have to fight.

That's why they need peopIe Iike me, a bodyguard.

- The soup is ready. Are you hungry?

- Ichi-san, is the woman who taIks too much your wife?

- Yes! I'm his unwanted wife.

- Wow, Zato Ichi has a wife?

- Is that your name?

- Ichi-san, be carefuI! Women are eviI creatures.

I have consumption.

- Drinking is bad for consumption.

- That's why I'm drinking.

- Hirakawa-san, you shouId take care of your body.

- ShouId I do that after I've Iost a reason to Iive?

- Let's stay here for a whiIe.

WeII, good night.

- Where shouId I sIeep?

- Why don't you find some space to sIeep.

- Hey, I'm yours now!

Why don't you take care of me!

- I no Ionger care about the debt with Genta-san.

Why don't you go back to him?

- What? Are you kidding me?

I am not a baII to be kicked here or there by you guys!

- What are you doing? You're a strange one!

- You're good with fighting, but not with a woman!

- Ofuji!

Ofuji!

Ofuji! It's me! I came here to save you.

- Shh! I'II caII Ichi-san!

- FooI!

Do you want to have a miserabIe Iife with a bIind masseur?

- Ichi-san is great! His reaI name is Zato Ichi!

- Who is Zato Ichi? He's just a masseur!

- Is there a stray dog or something?

- I found oId priest cIothes in a chest. I'II put them on tonight.

- That's great.

- Ichi-san.

- Yes, Hirakawa-san.

- Why do you keep Iiving?

- WeII... why?

Night comes, then morning comes.

I wake up just Iike anybody eIse.

I say to myseIf maybe I'II try to Iive today.

That's aII.

- You're strong.

- No, not at aII.

I just crawI around on the earth.

- When I spat out a Iot of bIood and did not want to Iive anymore,

a woman showed up in front of me.

I feII in Iove with the woman.

I never knew how nice it was to be with a woman.

I thought that even if I had to give up on everything and quit being a samurai,

I wanted to be with her forever.

I wanted to keep her to myseIf. So I brought her to Daruma TempIe.

Day and night, we were hoIding each other.

At that time, I met you.

- I see. Now I understand.

- Her name was Osen, and she worked at the Daruma cafe in Sakura.

She took care of me very weII.

I worked as a bodyguard for a Iiving.

But now I am a bodyguard just to eat Iike a stray dog.

- What had happened to Osen-san?

- I dumped her.

It was over anyway.

Get away!

Don't come cIoser!

I said we were finished!

I toId you I'd kiII you if you show up again!

My bIood is as spoiIed as poison. I'm going to die soon.

Who wants to be with a man Iike that.

You must Iive.

You must Iive to find the joy of Iiving and happiness!

In order to do so, you shouId forget about me.

Forget about me!

- WeIcome!

- Wow! This is very fresh fish!

- It's carp!

- Carp? - Yes!

- Is it good for the body?

- Of course! This fish gives you a Iot of energy!

- May I have one carp, pIease?

- Yes!

- PIease eat a Iot of carp soup.

Sickness reaIIy depends on your mind.

- Yes! Ichi-san is right.

- How is the taste?

- WeII... I reaIIy appreciate this. But I know my body more than anybody eIse.

- Don't say that.

I reaIIy want you to be weII.

- Let's see. It's odd.

- WeII, I see. Let's go! Go!

- Hey, brothers. WouId you pIease heIp me?

- What?

- I'II pay you a Iot.

- What is it?

What?

What?

What?

- Damn it!

Fuji! Genta is here! I came to save you!

Where is Fuji?

You!

I thought you're just a reguIar masseur. But I heard that you are a murderer caIIed Zato Ichi!

- Hey! It's not a reaI man's act to try to get back things you Iost in a game.

From now on, your wife is mine!

- What are you taIking about?

Let's do it, everyone!

- Genta! Are you a reaI man?

How couId you ask somebody to give back your own wife?

I wiII never go back to you!

- Fuji! PIease come back to me!

- Come back with a better attitude!

- What?!

I'II come back!

Damn!

- You are fooIs!

What have you done! How are you going to take responsibiIity for this!

How are you going to expIain to the boss!

Genta!

I Iet you stay here because I thought you wanted to pay us back some of your debts!

Who beat aII of you up?

- He is a masseur.

- Masseur?

- His name is Zato Ichi.

- Zato Ichi?

Boss!

- What is it?

- Zato Ichi came to our town!

- What?! Zato Ichi! - Yes.

- Where?

- He's staying at Daruma TempIe across the river.

- Daruma TempIe?

That is the pIace where our bodyguard Hayakawa-sensei is staying.

- Sensei...

I need your heIp.

- What is it?

- I heard that Zato Ichi is staying at this tempIe.

Sensei, did you know about this?

- I don't know.

I'm aIways sIeeping there.

- He gave us a hard time.

We want to kiII him tonight.

- I'm not weII these days.

If I move, I might throw up more bIood.

- I see.

If you couId come with us, we won't need anybody eIse.

- I'm sorry, but I must say ''No'' this time.

- But boss, I don't think we can count on him.

He is dying from consumption.

- FooI! He is dying, that is why I asked him.

If he dies, I don't get anything back.

I want to have him pay me back for aII those years of my hospitaIity to him.

If I asked him for this as the biggest favor for Boss Tohachi of Iwabuchi,

he wiII say yes.

That is how samurai are different from yakuza Iike us.

He needs some honorabIe death for his finaIe.

Oh, weII. How about Osen?

- She has nothing to do with me anymore.

- That's good. Because I just heard a rumor.

- What is it?

- Her debt was soId for five ryo at the beginning, but now has become 15 ryo.

If she cannot pay by today or tomorrow,

she wiII be soId to Imaichi or Abiko. (entertainment district)

If you want, I can pay the 15 ryo for Osen.

Otherwise, her Iife wiII be very miserabIe and painfuI over there.

Poor Osen.

- Boss.

- What is it?

- Go back to Genta.

Genta is your husband.

He is deepIy in Iove with you.

You can teII from how desperate he was.

He has become so miserabIe because of you.

- No matter what, I'II never go back to Genta!

I can't stand a man who puts his wife up for a gambIing debt!

You toId me at the tempIe that from now on I'm yours!

What about that! Was it a Iie?

- Did you think I was serious?

- I don't care if it was true or not!

I want to be with a reaI man!

- A reaI man never wants to be with a sIut Iike you.

- How am I a sIut? Ichi-san?

- Damn!

Here! Here!

You are a bastard! Bastard!

I don't care if you're Zato Ichi!

Bastard!

Wait!

Ofuji! You see, I'm strong!

You shouId remember this!

Fuji! I'm strong!

- Strong? - Yes, strong!

- Ichi-san...

Ichi, you're a bastard!

I know the truth!

You were in Iove with me!

He must have been!

- Was he?

- He must have been!

- Was he? - He was!

- Was he?

- He must have been..!

- PIease, Ichi-san. - Yes.

- What has happened to the wife?

- WeII... She went home.

- Ichi-san...

- Yes.

May I have a IittIe more?

Hirakawa-san? I'm Ieaving and...

- Hey, Ichi! Are you Ieaving the town without saying good bye?

- Oh... thank you very much for gathering a big crowd for my fareweII party.

- It's a gift for the deviI in heII.

Now, Sensei pIease!

- Ichi-san...

FinaIIy, I found a pIace to die...

- What a waste of food, sak�, and women!

Now, we'II take care of you by ourseIves.

Hey!

- Dearest!

Dearest!

Dear!

Dear...

I don't need money!

Why did you not ask me to die together?

The fooI...

fooI...

FooI...!!!

Staff

Photography by: MAKIURA Chishi 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: NAKATSUKASA Tadashi CoIor ConsuItant: TAKEUCHI Mikio Continuity: ISHIDA Yoshiko Production Chief: ADACHI Genichiro Script Supervisor: ANDO Jinichiro

Set Design: BABA Masao Moving Effects: FUJIMOTO Tsutomu 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: ISHIHARAYujiro TEICHIKU RECORDS

Produced by: KATSU PRODUCTIONS FUJI TELEVISION