Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan (眠狂四郎魔性剣)

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SWORD OF SATAN

"Nemuri Kyoshiro Masho-ken" Nemuri Kyoshiro Subversive-sword

Planning: Fujii Hiroaki Original Story: Shibata Renzaburoo Screenplay: Hoshikawa Seiji

Director of Photography: Takemura Yasekazu Sound Recording: Oosumi Masao

Lighting: Yamashita Reiijiro Art Direction: Katoo Shigeru Music: Saitoo Ichiroo

Asst. Director: Watanabe Minoru Production Mgr.: Yoshioka Tooru Film Development: Tooyoo Labs

Starring:

Ichikawa Raizo as Nemuri Kyoshiro

Saga Michiko - Miyoojoo Masako - Hasegawa Machiko

Suga Fujio - Hokujoo Toshitaroo Gomi Ryuutaroo - Mizuhara Kooichi Asano Shinjiro - Inaba Yoshio

Wakamatsu Kazuko - Hodaka Noriko Komura Yukiko - Kimura Gen Aeaki Shinobu - Date Saburo

Hashimoto Riki - Funaki Yooichi Etsukawa Hajime - Kasuga Kiyoshi

Fujikawa Jun Kobayashi Kanae - Tachibana Kimiko

Taniguchi Kazuko - Oosugi Ikumi Koroki Hideo - Ban Yuutaroo - Fujihara Tamotsu Deguchi Shizuhiro - Takamiya Katsuya

Directed by: Yasuda Kimiyoshi

Pardon me...

What can I do for you?

Sir... I must ask this of you...

Please buy me for the night.

Your elocution... leads me to believe you're from a samurai family.

Do you wonder around propositioning men like this every night?

No, sir... Tonight's the first time.

Please, I beg you... Please buy me.

All right.

Please... this way.

How's this?

You lie down first.

Yes, sir.

Is that Noh Mask...

...to hide the shame of selling your body?

Or to hide a face emaciated by an illness?

Why don't you take the mask off?

I've no intention of sleeping with a masked woman.

- I'm leaving. - Please wait!

What made you decide to sell yourself?

You should know better, if you're from a samurai family.

Explain yourself.

I have no place I can call home... and I am all alone.

Are you afflicted with an illness?

Yes...

I cannot possibly depend on charity... to make ends meet.

Is that why you chose to sell yourself?

Please wait, sir!

Unlike men... as a last resort, women can sell their bodies.

Are you going to just leave me? Please, lie with me!

What I paid a gold piece for was your story.

Your body is not worth that much.

You were a woman of high rank, now you are without dignity.

Laying with you will only torment me.

It'd make me pitiful, like you!

Sir! At least, tell me your name, please.

Nemuri Kyoshiro... a rogue samurai.

I hear she killed herself, slashed her own throat.

The end of a woman who once served a samurai family.

Say... did you know this poor, dead soul?

I did.

For her to end her life like that, she must've had bad karma.

No, perhaps I'm the one who has bad karma...

If that woman hadn't met me, this never would have happened!

All too true! That's the kind of man you are!

Say, you do recognize that, don't you?

Remember Banzo the "Flying Squirrel?" You killed him.

I'm his younger sister.

And you want to avenge him?

I know that you aren't a trivial match.

Still... I will kill you for sure!

Banzo lost his life while trying to kill me. I did not attack him.

I don't care about your excuses.

Sure... my brother was a mercenary...

But, you know... ever since we were little...

...we were alone in this world, just the two of us.

There's no way... a samurai like you can understand how I feel!

Then attack me, as you wish.

I'll follow you to the end!

And at the first opportunity... you will draw your last breath!

You say my name is in her will?

Yes, sir...

An express messenger delivered it to me this morning.

I recall that she told me she was alone and had no home.

Not true, sir...

Five years ago, she brought this young man to my family.

Subsequently, she disappeared, and we had no idea where she was.

Was she his mother?

No, sir...

And yet... she was a mother to him.

I see.

I wonder, though... why did she mention me in her will?

Sir... although she did not explain her reasons...

...she simply instructed that we should return this to you.

Perhaps it was I...

...who caused her death...

I cannot tell you exactly why...

...but this one little gold piece...

...crushed the last little bit of dignity in a woman of rank.

I am a cynical man...

...and the harsh words that issued from my mouth...

Who knew that they'd sap the last bit of strength?

Regrets or repentance, it makes no difference now...

Still, why couldn't I have given her any encouragement?!

Dummy!

Dummy! Sae, you dummy!

You didn't have to die!

He just said "Sae," didn't he?

Yes, sir.

She was a woman of rank, of a samurai family...

...yet you simple call her "Sae"... Are you the son of a samurai?

No! I hate samurai!

I can't stand samurai!

For reasons I cannot reveal, his lineage must remain secret.

Please keep this to yourself.

I understand. If you say so, I won't ask.

- Oito, let's go home. - Sure.

Tsurumatsu is your name, yes?

If there's anything I can do for you, name it.

Why would I want to? You killed Sae!

The Shogunate will soon be sending an inspector to Iwashiro fief.

Is that true, Sir?

If you don't catch Tsurumatsu and send him to your castle right away...

...you Clan, the Iwashiro, is doomed to extinction.

I appreciate your attention to this matter, sir.

And I thank you for dispatching spies to locate Tsurumatsu.

I shall never forget your kindness.

Yet, it won't come cheap, Kikumura.

I understand, Sir.

It'll inconvenience me a little as well, should the Iwashiro Clan vanish.

That... is something that you, Elder Mizuno, and I, truly understand.

And both of us would hate to see our incomes shrink.

I suggest that you quickly grab Tsurumatsu from Masagoro the Carpenter.

Lord Torii Norimasa has passed, and his heir, Kamechiyo, also died suddenly.

Yet the public believes that within your castle,

there still lives another heir.

Should the inspector ever discover that... Tsurumatsu is missing from the Castle...

...undoubtedly that would be the end of the Clan.

If that happens, even I can do nothing to save it.

Indeed, the fate of Iwashiro's 120,000- koku fief hangs in the balance.

Still, who could've guessed that he'd be hiding here in Edo?!

The same Tsurumatsu that, 5 years ago, was but a nuisance to be eliminated.

I don't know what to say, Sir...

But now, the fact that Sae spirited away Tsurumatsu seems to be a blessing.

It means the Iwashiro Clan is blessed with good luck.

The Shogunate is plotting to wipe out all the Daimyo.

Surely, you don't want to see that happen.

No indeed, Sir.

Wh... Who the hell are you guys?!

I'm Monbe Saburota, of the Iwashiro Clan.

I've come for Lord Tsurumatsu. I'm taking him with me.

Tsurumatsu?! Wh... Why, that's my grandson.

Masagoro, I've come for Lord Tsurumatsu, as he'll be the heir to the Iwashiro Clan.

I already know... that Lord Kamechiyo died unexpectedly.

- Masagoro, I beg you. - No!

This is a matter of great import to the Iwashiro Clan!

Return Lord Tsurumatsu to us. Please.

My... How times change!

This isn't a personal request. It is for the sake of our Clan!

- Aren't you being grabby? - What?!

Am I wrong?

Didn't you try to kill the child as if he were a maggot?

But now you want him back, for the good of your Clan! How insane!

Vassals such as we know nothing of such matters.

Bah! Just to save face, you pretend ignorance!

Why you... Can't you see that I'm begging you?!

You people argued over whether he was the son of a concubine or a real wife.

You decided his mother was a concubine, and then you tried to kill him!

Aren't you being selfish for wanting to take him back to your castle?!

My daughter... no, the child's mother...

You told everybody that she had sickened and died...

But the truth is... maybe she was killed!

As far as Tsurumatsu is concerned...

...he'll make all of you pay for what you did to his mother!

You can put him back in your damned castle...

...but he won't find any happiness there!

Silence! The mother served her purpose.

No matter what it takes, Lord Tsurumatsu must come with us...

for the sake of our Clan! - Such is your Greed!

Enough! he's coming with me.

- He's not downstairs either. - Gotten away, perhaps. All right.

- Well? - Nowhere, sir.

Alright!

I'm not staying here! I'm going back! I'm going back to my Ojii-chan's!

Ojii-chan: Grandfather (affectionate)

You just sit there like that for awhile.

- Do you hate me? - I hate you!

Sae was a mother figure to you, and I'm the one...

...who causes her death, after all.

When I grow up, I'll train until I'm strong, and kill you!

What's so funny?!

Well, I think that a samurai's blood boils inside you as well.

You're crazy! I can't stand samurai!

Let me go! Let me go!

Oito would be very upset if I let you go.

I gave her my word that I'd protect you, no matter what.

I don't need you to protect me!

Well, now, take it easy.

You men... are you Iwashiro clansmen?

- I am Monbe Saburota. - And I am Nemuri Kyoshiro.