BLUE EYE SAMURAI

Hello?

Hello in there!

Please. You have to help us.

I have dying people or-- Maybe they're already dead.

I'm too scared to look, but I'm trying to save them,

even though I'm really mad at one of them.

I think you know him.

Please! I've been walking for days, and bad guys are after us,

and I don't know where else to go.

What do I do?

Mizu.

Come inside.

My cage. So many years.

Took them forever to build a proper jakes.

Made the shogun unspeakably rich, and all I had to do was hide.

I spun so much gold in there.

Fucked 10,000 times.

I never want to see it again.

Adieu!

Our spring procession to Edo.

You promised we wouldn't be bored.

We won't be.

Every night, a delicacy.

I'm glad to see you got your appetite back.

You lost an arm, not your prick.

Ha. We, uh, should send word of when the weapons arrive.

Our friends are nervous.

Ah, let them be nervous.

When they stop worrying, they stop thinking they need us.

But you do know when.

Now, what's planned for tonight?

That is… something new.

Pleasure as always,

Madame Kaji.

Always a pleasure to serve you.

Safest travels to Edo.

Heiji Shindo, you promised, you delivered.

Every stop a surprise and a delight.

I like to think we gain strength from pleasure.

But our army is nothing without guns.

Ah, you worry like an old woman.

I worry like someone about to go to war with the entire shogunate.

Ah, the guns will be smuggled in

on fishing boats in two days.

Clever.

Our army will take the castle,

and I'll personally execute

the shogun and the entire Itoh Clan

during the Council of Elders at the Spring Matsuri.

The lords can then choose.

Die with him or bow to my puppet,

who will take his orders from me!

I didn't say stop.

The shipment comes in two days.

Scour every port and fish yard. Search every boat.

Open every box. Bribe any man at any price.

We must get the guns before Fowler.

Once you've secured them, it will be my privilege to kill Fowler.

"That man would be a plague on Japan. There is no sharing power with him."

Find those guns before they reach Edo.

Bring them to me. Now.

The convergence of your wedding and the Spring Matsuri.

The timing couldn't be more perfect if I planned it myself.

Ah!

Every lord has brought us their finest.

Find a smile.

What can you possibly want that isn't right here?

I want to not be forced to marry some horrible man I don't know.

I want to leave Edo.

Daughter.

When in your whole life have you not gotten what you wanted?

When you blackened my teeth.

Just… trust me.

Hello, friend.

How long have you been in there?

Hmm?

Too long. It's spring outside.

A bird that small, caught on the wing.

I tell you, you were born to kill.

Ugh! You saw something beautiful, and your first thought was to kill it.

You're as cruel as they say.

You have nothing to say for yourself?

You are bold to speak to the young master so plainly.

Bold is unwise.

A wife should be like tofu.

Unnoticed, colorless, and bland.

He's as terrible as they say. He won't even talk to me.

Oh, the young master doesn't converse with any woman. Lady Itoh's rule.

His first wife wishes she followed it.

- What happened to her? - Oh, she went back to her family.

In an urn.

He is as ruthless in bed as in battle.

Your fiancé's favorite position?

With an obi around her neck.

Akemi! Heavens, child.

Get away from that window.

This is your ambition now? Death?

Is there another way out?

It's the window or the knife. Or wait for an obi.

Save your worries, Seki. Sadly, I lack the courage.

Go away.

I don't need your advice on marriage or love

or whatever you think you're an expert on today.

Hmm.

I've never understood a thing about love,

or battle, or politics, or art,

or anything I was supposed to.

I was a miserable warrior.

The only thing I have ever known everything about is you.

Here. A gift from me.

A Go set?

We stopped playing when I was 12.

Why?

Because I beat you every time.

Why?

Because you learned.

You're determined to resent me

when what you resent is being someone else's property.

Women shouldn't be property.

Well, they are.

And tomorrow, you go from your father's to Master Takayoshi's.

I've always known this day would come.

Since your mother died,

I tried with the time I had

to ready you for the world that is,

not the world you'd have it be.

Without your father knowing,

often without you knowing.

You think you sneaked into the library to read all those years?

Why do you think you wanted to?

Know it or not,

you are equipped to do more than survive here…

but succeed.

Expand your territory.

Find the vulnerabilities. Capture.

Win.

You learned.

You can stop pretending to be my mother.

After tomorrow, I won't be your responsibility ever again.

Blame me if you must.

Hate me.

I was no better a mother than I was a warrior.

I did enjoy the job more.

Hmm. Someone is awake.

Tell me if Taigen ever wakes up.

Thanks to your apprentice, you did not die.

Your soul is stubborn.

I'm not Mizu's apprentice.

Will Taigen live?

Hmm. His soul is also stubborn.

How can I help you today, Master?

I washed your clothes. You probably didn't know they were so dirty.

They will look so much nicer now. And white.

Did you know they're actually white?

The legendary Master Eiji deserves clean white underwear.

Especially if he's gonna train me.

Hmm.

You can help me by providing silence.

My dad loved silence too.

You're alive.

Everything hurts.

That's a good sign.

Salt and fish guts.

Kohama?

Near it.

This is Master Eiji's forge.

So this is where you disappeared to all those years ago.

This is where you trained.

No one in town cared if I starved or died.

He took me in.

Rest. I'll be back.

Wait. You have to let me thank you for saving me.

It's hard enough to admit you did.

You don't owe me anything.

Lady Itoh hoped a ride would lighten Miss's mood.

Look at the trees.

It's as if they bloomed especially for the wedding.

Even the prostitutes are working night and day.

Stop! Stop here.

You're a long way from home.

Yes, Madame Kaji.

It's me. Or do I have to recite some renga?

Akemi?

Akemi! You have wife teeth.

Every paying customer in the country is in Edo for the Spring Matsuri

and some lavish royal wedding.

We rented rooms at a tea house here in the Yoshiwara.

We worked the whole highway getting here.

Fucked our way through all 69 Stations of the Nakasendo.

But why are you here? And in the shogun's crest?

Oh. The lavish royal wedding, it seems, is… mine.

Wait. That wedding is your wedding?

She really is a real princess.

Of course she is. Bet she lives in a castle.

I'm in a snare, surrounded by snakes.

I will trade lives with you right now.

We've been servicing the road-weary crotches of every man here

to pay obeisance to your new family.

You need only service one, freshly washed.

You don't understand.