Red Sun (Soleil Rouge)

By 1860 Japan had already opened her doors to the rest of the world...

...and the first ambassador to Washington had arrived only after a long and perilous voyage by sea.

Ten years later, despite the new rail road from San Francisco...

Ambassador Sakaguchi, Lord of Bizen was to find that besides the peril of the voyage by sea...

...there were further danger to be faced on land, on their way through the West.

Okay, men. All out, take your positions. Come on!

Take it down. Didn't you hear me?

Look at the engine, but don't get dirty.

All right.

Why all the soldiers, Sergeant? Must be somebody pretty important in that car.

Yes, sir. The Ambassador from Japan.

Japanese, how interesting.

God almighty, just you look at that.

All aboard! All aboard! All aboard! All aboard! All aboard!

All aboard! All aboard!

Hold it Link. Now just take off your belt one handed.

Since when you turn bounty hunter, Stone?

Since the price went up on you.

Looks like it worked.

Yeah, you always was stupid.

Now, jump.

What, me?

Scum.

Filth.

Bye, Sheriff.

Right on time. I make this trip once a month.

That wind out there don't blow up a duster.

We'll be in Santa Fe before noon.

Yeah, if the ground don't crack open and swallow us all up.

Do you mind?

Conductor.

Folks, me and my friend is going to put on a little wild west show for you.

Some you might have heard about me. It's called a hold up.

Now, don't get scared or do anything stupid and you'll be all right.

Just relax. And enjoy yourselves.

Keep your seats.

Help me, help me.

Don't anybody move.

Hey there! Get them off. Get them damn muttons off the tracks.

Clear the tracks.

Yes sir.

Corporal, clear the tracks. I told you to do it.

Yes, sir.

All right, get the hell out of my way Hey, did you hear what I said?

Get them off, get them. God damned sheep off the line.

Don't you understand, anything.

I understand, Senor.

Give me that.

Carlos.

Help.

All right, all right.

Adelante, adelante.

Rapido.

Venga, venga.

Hey, wait, wait for us.

Come on, come, come.

Thanks.

You're welcome.

Hold it, stop it.

Now folks, we come to the main attraction.

My assistants are going to take up a collection. Just like they do in church.

All right, all right. I'm getting it out as fast as I can.

That's all we need is a nervous dynamite man.

Sorry Link, I'll watch it.

Okay, everybody out. Let's go.

Get all on the ground.

Hey, you. Come on.

Jump down. Over here.

Open up in there.

That's enough.

All right, you have five seconds to open up that door.

Get a move on, come on, come on, Hunt.

Well, Hunt for God's sake.

Get back.

Murdering bastards.

Amen, brother.

All right, blow it.

Yeah, give me three sticks.

You two better get out.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the end of the line. There's your way back to...

...the US Armies waiting to protect you. So, would you please start walking.

Now.

And four more for me.

How did we do?

About as expected.

Four hundred thousand?

Give or take a dollar.

Quite a haul for you, Link One third.

Yah, not bad for work on the Sabbath, huh?

Now when do we divy up?

Like we said in San Lucas.

Why not now, then we can separate.

Hunt, you've been shaking like a tree full of owls right from the start.

What the hell's the matter with you?

I got a bad feeling.

About what?

Just bad, that's all.

Well look, Hunt, no worry. You'll get your cut. Link will be sure of that.

It ain't him I'm worried about.

Meaning what?

Meaning the both of you shut up.

Gauche, make sure everything's all right outside.

Anything you say, General.

Then I want to check out that private car.

I'm not worried about you, Link, don't get that idea It's Gauche.

What about him?

I don't know.

That's your split, take it and go.

Please Link, don't get sore.

But before you go, if I were you I'd change my clothes your pants are wet.

Alright, you tally.

Listen in there, we got thirty guns out here.

Thirty one.,

And whatever you got in there can't be much. So, open the door.

Maybe he don't speak English.

Well, I sure as hell don't speak Japanese.

Pablo speaks Latin. He used to be a priest.

Si, si.

The hell with it, get Hunt. We'll blow it up.

I am Sakajo Bizen...

...Ambassador to the United States on authority from his Imperial Majesty...

...the Mikado, the Emperor of Japan. I caution you both, I am on my way to Washington.

My safe arrival is guaranteed by your government.

Washington is quite a few hills away I'm coming in.

Look out for these two.

Samurai guards?

In my service.

Well, if you want them to remain in your service...

...better tell them just to keep their hands off those long knives.

Well now, Ambassador, tell you how this works.

You're being a foreigner in a strange land, me and my partner here...

...we look around, take what we want.

You try to stop us, we kill you.

There is no need to be destructive. The money is there.

Ambassador, you're a gentleman, enjoy your stay in our country.

What do I do with these two?

Well, unless you have some special use for men dressed up like women, let them go.

All right.

Sir, it's a gift for the President from my Imperial Majesty the Mikado.

Gold, real gold?

You tell your emperor, I thank him.

Jump.

Link.

Well, makes a good butcher shop.

You.

Are you shouting at me?

I want to know your name.

You're lucky I don't shoot you.

I ask for your name.

In New Orleans I've shot men who didn't like the cards I dealt them.

So why? I'll tell you my name, what good is it to you?

I intend to find you, I intend to see you dead.

I get impression that until today you've never seen a man killed by one of these.

Gun Sword, we all die the same way.

The name is Gauche.

They were like brothers.

That's too bad.

The man who killed him, also tried to kill you.

Yeah, so it seems.

He stole from us. Something very precious.

A gift to your President from my Imperial Majesty.

Too bad.

It is a matter of honor that it be returned to us.

You will lead my Samurai to that man.

Nope. You'll want to kill Gauche on sight...

...but I want that damned Frenchman alive.

At least, until I get my hands on that money.

That will be between you and my Samurai. You will leave immediately.

I guess you didn't hear me, Ambassador.

I'm not dragging some greenhorn around the countryside.

Make no mistake, Karoda is no ordinary man.

I don't care what he is. Look, Ambassador, we don't have horses...

...and Gauche has a two hour head start and he's got 20 mean guns to back him up.

Hell, even if I do catch up with him, the trouble just...

Silence. Each of these dots represent a day.

I have given him seven days to recover the Mikado sword.

In seven days, I will pass here again, the same train.

Suppose he doesn't make it in seven days.

For the disgrace of failure, he will rip his abdomen, kill himself.

So will I. We call it, Harakiri.

Well, that's something I'd like to see.

And he might as well do it now, cause I'm not taking him.

Then, he will cut your head off.

That's something I wouldn't like to see.

Just testing. Yes, sir.

Just what I had in mind.

You get around pretty good in those skirts.

Yes, sir. I'm going to have to try something else.

Wait a minute, now wait a minute.

These tracks are going right around that long bend.

There's no other way out of this canyon, so we can save time by going right over the top.

What the hell, just follow me?

Hell, let's rest?

I think, I got it all figured.

You see, you're a gorilla, and you're as ugly as a buzzard.

Not only that, I think you're as dumb as a backward jackass.

Who is more dumb? Me or the man who let's himself get cheated by friends?

I thought you didn't know the language.

Did I say that?

No, but you never talked.