Miyamoto Musashi (宮本武蔵)

Broadcasting for 55 years!

55th Anniversary of Our Initial Broadcast

Heian Yoshioka Training Hall

Strength in Desolation

I wish for a match with Yoshioka Seijūrō-sensei.

Leave! Leave!

The Sensei is out.

And his younger brother, Denshichirō-dono, is on his way to Kyoto, too.

Leave already!

Leave!

Wait, wait.

Kimura Takuya

Which school have you apprenticed under?

Sawamura Ikki

Maki Yōko

I don't have a particular teacher...

Matsuda Shōta

...nor any school I've studied under yet.

Nakatani Miki

But, as a child, I learned the art of the 10 moves from my Father.

Baishō Mitsuko

Takeda Tetsuya

Thereafter...

...I would ask for strategies from whomever happened to come along the road to my village.

Yachigusa Kaoru

Nishida Toshiyuki

And after that, I left my home town...

Yusuke Santa-Maria

...and studied under the trees and with the mountain deities.

Bankawa Teruyuki

Narration: Ichihara Etsuko

Do you have someone who can claim your corpse?

Original Work: Yoshikawa Eiji

In the unlikely event I do end up a corpse...

Screenplay: Sato Shimako

...you can toss me out onto either the Toribe Mountain...

Music: Hattori Takayuki

Director: Kanefuku Ryōsuke

...or along with your garbage into the Kamo River.

By no means will I come to bear you any grudge for it.

Okay. In that case, we'll be your opponents.

I'm next!

Are you okay?!

What... What is this man...

What's your name?

Sakushū Province, Yoshino District, Miyamoto Village, the rōnin...

...Miyamoto Musashi.

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Miyamoto Musashi

Takezō...

Miyamoto Musashi

First Night

Five Years Before

The time is October 21st, 1600.

On this day...

...Japan was divided between East and West and the two battled.

The man who won this battle would gain all of Japan.

It is commonly referred to as the "Decisive Battle."

Battle of Sekigahara

It was the Battle of Sekigahara.

Who is that?

Kojirō!

Kojirō?

Gangway!

Dreaming of having a successful career, this is the common foot soldier, "Shinmen Takezō."

Shinmen Takezō

He who would later become Miyamoto Musashi...

...had suffered a crushing defeat along with the Western Army.

I lost...

Damn...

Damn...

Damn it!

Takezō...

Takezō...

Matahachi!

Takezō...

Ah, it hurts... It hurts, it hurts.

Here, steady yourself.

It hurts, it hurts, it hurts...

What is it? Were you slashed?

Hon'iden Matahachi

No.

What then?

Lend me your shoulder, lend me your shoulder...

Though I intended to take the head of a general in Hideyoshi's army...

...I ended up like this...

It's the same for me.

I intended to look back at those in our village from the top of the world.

Takezō...

Huh?

If I die, please take care of Otsū.

Otsū? Who's that?

My fiancée.

She lives at the Shippoji Temple and is an orphan.

She's very, very cute.

Ah... I wanted to see Otsū just once more before I died...

Otsū...

Ah!

What'jya do that fer!?

A person won't die from having diarrhea!

Shape up, you!

Wait. It really is diarrhea.

In that case, pinch it out.

What's with this rain?!

How should I know?

Takezō... Lend me your shoulder, your shoulder!

One Year Later, Sakushū Province, Miyamoto Village

My son Matahachi is the Hon'iden family's important, important heir.

Please, we pray he returns safely.

And I pray that the companion who took Matahachi into that battle...

...goes straight to Hell!

There he is!

After him!

Wait! Wait!

Otsū

Otsū.

Obaba-sama.

Osugi

What is a bride to the Hon'iden family doing here?

I'm sorry...

Anyhow, because the world is in an uproar right now...

...I want you to move yourself out of Shippoji here and into the Hon'iden home.

Once Matahachi-san has returned...

That wouldn't be good.

Are there people of Miyamoto Village here?

And you would be...

I would be Aoki Tanzaemon.

Aoki Tanzaemon

The Lord of Himeji Castle, Ikeda Terumasa, has charged me with hunting down remnants of the losing side...

...as well as a guy named Takezō of Miyamoto Village who tore through our gates and has fled.

Akuzō?

Is that shameless guy still alive?

Akuzō?

That's Takezō.

You haven't met him yet, have you?

No.

He's a man not particularly well-spoken of in the village?

Well about that...

...he's just a hooligan that even you'll find hard to handle.

One time he asked for a match with a certain man named Arima Nagashi, who was a strategist...

...but even after the match had already been decided as his win...

...Takezō still went and used his oak staff to kill him.

He was every bit like a starving beast...

I'm strong! I'm the strongest!

There's no one in this world stronger than I am!

There are no guys stronger than me and Takezō!

Matahatchi!

Ow, ow... Ma, yer tearin' off my ear!

Come!

Since then...

...everyone in the village has kept their distance from Akuzō.

How much have I cried seeing my son Matahachi...

...keeping company with that barbarian...

And at Sekigahara, too.

My son didn't go willingly; he was tricked into going by Akuzō!

Well then, you are the mother of this Hon'iden Matahachi...

...who went to Sekigahara along with Takezō?

Yes. My name is Sugi.

Ah... such a pity.

It seems your son died at Sekigahara.

It can't be...

Matahatchi has?

Is it true? Is it true?!

He's here! After him!

Matahachi! Matahachi is dead?!

Still, don't mourn. We'll take down the enemy of your son!

Matahachi... Matahachi...

Matahachi! Matahachi!

Matahachi! Matahachi!

Obaba-sama?!

Heave-ho! Heave-ho! Heave-ho!

Otsū!

Ah!

Where are you off to?

Gon'oji-sama, um...

Obaba-sama of the Hon'iden family has collapsed...

Really?

The doctor...

This is an emergency!

Taking a woman hostage would make you a man who is looked down upon forever!

Takezō!

Takezō...?

Takezō... release Otsū!

Otsū?

Don't mind about her; take him!

Resign yourself!

I'm only here to bring word to the Obaba at Hon'iden!

Let me meet Obaba!

What?!

Oh, I'll let you meet her.

Since I'll let you meet her, release Otsū.

Takuan-sama...

Takuan

What's the matter?

Is what you said about coming to bring word to Obaba a lie?

Taking any more lives than this has no meaning. Now...

You promise?

Yeah, I promise.

Come...

Bastard... you tricked me!