Samurai Rebellion (1967)

Gô Katô: Yogoro Sasahara

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• Yogoro Sasahara : Thanks to his displeasure toward you, I have become a happy man. I could never have found a better wife.

• Yogoro Sasahara : It may be our lord's wish, but he is being too selfish. Ichi is not a doll. She is a living being.

  Shobei Tsuchiya : Yes, you're right. You're young. And I don't blame you. But you can't reason with a crying child nor with your lord, as they say.

• Isaburo Sasahara : Well, I want my lord to explain his orders to me. When his son's mother proves inconvenient, he forces her to marry a vassal. Inconvenienced once again, he demands her return. This is cruel and unreasonable. He has no understanding of human emotions.

  Shobei Tsuchiya : No understanding of human emotions?

  Isaburo Sasahara : Kotani-san, our family didn't accept Ichi particularly gratefully. Nor did Ichi herself know Yogoro or the Sasahara family. She was none too happy about it either. But the reason they are getting along is because they're kind to each other and care for each other.

  Shobei Tsuchiya : I understand all that clearly enough. But Isaburo, if you continue to be so stubborn, who knows what might happen to your family.

  Yogoro Sasahara : I don't care. I will not return Ichi, even if the heavens rain fire!

  Shobei Tsuchiya : What? Even if the heavens rain fire... and blood?

• Shobei Tsuchiya : Orders from our lord! Accept obediently! I said orders from our lord! Will you not obey?

  Yogoro Sasahara : It's too late for orders now!

  Isaburo Sasahara : Now, now, Yogoro. Let's hear what the orders are.

  Shobei Tsuchiya : Orders! Isaburo and Yogoro Sasahara, for your insolent conduct and defiance toward our lord, you are ordered to commit seppuku.

  Isaburo Sasahara : Seppuku? It is gracious of our lord to permit it. I thought men would come arrest us and then hang or crucify us. We will bravely commit seppuku.

  Yogoro Sasahara : Father.

  Isaburo Sasahara : However, we want something before we kill ourselves. Bring us three heads!

  Shobei Tsuchiya : What?

  Isaburo Sasahara : Those of Lord Masakata Matsudaira, ruler of the Aizu domain, Chamberlain Yanase, and Steward Takahashi. Bring me the heads of the villains who took my son's wife!

• Yogoro Sasahara : Ichi, I'm sorry. Return. Return to the castle.

  Isaburo Sasahara : Fool! Why do you say that now? What's the Sasahara family to you? What are your relatives' troubles to you? Yogoro, have you decided you want to keep your position? Listen to me. My father-in-law was impressed with my swordsmanship. As head of the Sasahara, he asked me to marry into the family. But otherwise I have no talents. In other words, I'm a worthless, good-for-nothing man. So in order to prove myself, for these past 20 years I have fought to preserve our good name and social standing. So why am I so obstinate now? The cruel injustice involved, for one thing. But your beautiful love for each other has touched me most of all. There's never been a shred of love in my married life! And now you do this! Promise me, Yogoro, that you'll never let Ichi go! You too. No matter what happens, never leave him! Promise me, both of you!

• Yogoro Sasahara : The sudden news must have surprised you.

  Ichi Sasahara : I was more angry than surprised.

  Yogoro Sasahara : Angry?

  Ichi Sasahara : A man over 50 was infatuated with me. I felt as if a hairy worm were crawling over me. I shuddered.

• Yogoro Sasahara : Tomi, you fool. How can you be so happy at a strange woman's breast? Tomi, you fool.

• Geki Takahashi : If she appeals to save you as the heir's mother, not as Yogoro's wife, he promised to change his orders from seppuku to confinement.

  Isaburo Sasahara : I don't understand what this is all about.

  Yogoro Sasahara : Neither do I.

  Isaburo Sasahara : Steward, it seems we don't understand what you just told us.

  Geki Takahashi : It's very simple. If you two admit that Ichi is no longer a family member and that she has been returned, our lord will listen to her plea for a lighter punishment. Will you acknowledge her return and live, or refuse and fight it out? Which will it be?

  Isaburo Sasahara : In that case, we ask for no mercy. We are prepared for the worst.

  Geki Takahashi : Then there is no alternative?

  Isaburo Sasahara : None. It's all of you who cannot be pardoned, who are holding Yogoro's wife as prisoner and still insist on doing so. Please return her at once!

  Geki Takahashi : All right. You've made yourselves very clear. I'll ask Lady Ichi now. Lady Ichi, will you save the lives of these men? Or will you let their pursuers come and kill them? Lady Ichi, the Sasaharas are men. Their pride will not let them back down. But your position is different. You have already returned to serve our lord. If you tell them that you sever your ties with them once and for all, then all will be well! Is that clear? If you do, their lives will be saved. We need not ask them to return you. And even though they petition for your return, it can be disregarded as long as you sever your ties with them.