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Look who it is!
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He's alive!
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Tell him about the disgusting,
filthy line you come from.
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Father!
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Father. Look...
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Mother!
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Glad you've returned safely, Lady Ochiba.
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I'm told the Council is outmaneuvered.
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The time for politics has come to an end.
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The Council will answer to me.
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This is Mariko.
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She's the daughter of Akechi Jinsai,
my new vassal.
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Make her feel welcome.
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Why are they so angry with each other?
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Akechi wait...
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Be patient.
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I know how you're feeling...
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Now is not the time.
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Go back to bed, Mariko.
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You're only dreaming.
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I don't understand why he's doing this...
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Your marriage to Buntaro
will be an alliance
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for both families to smile on.
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That's a joke.
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You know the Toda clan is
a worthless alliance.
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But your father treasures you.
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Then why is he casting me away?
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Mariko.
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All these years
and I still don't understand you.
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We have every privilege.
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Let us choose to look away
from what we cannot control.
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Mariko... my most cherished daughter.
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It pains me to see you
with so many questions.
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You have always been an obedient child,
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but now I ask that you serve
something greater...
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Your duty is what endures.
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There is nothing more.
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We have all suffered so much loss...
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You may feel unable
to bear the weight of it.
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But death is the end of having lived.
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It is an affirmation of life itself.
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Come forward.
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During the earthquake,
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the Anjin saved my life for a second time.
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I will grant him
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a fief near Kanagawa, worth 600 koku.
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He is now chief admiral of the Kantō.
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and general in charge
of our cannon regiment.
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For all those who lost their lives...
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their deaths will not be wasted.
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Thousands dead.
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Reports are even worse in the north.
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We'll never be able
to face Ishido like this.
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So...
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The Anjin now commands
the cannon regiment?
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It's Toranaga's decision.
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The army used to be mine,
but now it's out of my hands.
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Even so--
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For a barbarian--
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What are you on about?
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Our forces are in shambles.
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Any day now
we'll be dragged into this fruitless war,
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and your concern is just one barbarian?
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Time to write another will.
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Lord, for the way I've embarrassed you...
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I am truly ashamed.
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Not me.
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You've embarrassed your household,
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and the home of my hatamoto.
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I am no longer useful to you.
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I lose myself when I'm around her.
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Then divorce her.
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Please forgive me...
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Not now, after all these years.
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After her father's treachery,
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I thought she'd be grateful
I spared her life.
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But she has always been ice.
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Asking for death, again and again.
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For years, the ice has not melted.
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But...
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With him, it's different.
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Mariko is only doing what I demand of her,
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which is more than I can say of you.
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I order you...
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To isolate yourself from her
for seven days.
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The Anjin asked for my time.
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He says he is sorry for your army.
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These many gifts
you've blessed him with--
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he wishes to know why.
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He questions my generosity?
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He cannot fulfill
the service you ask of him.
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And says he still wishes to leave Japan.
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Which service does he prefer?
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He asks for the return of his ship.
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So he might sail against the Portuguese.
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The Anjin wishes to attack the Black Ship
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in order to harm trade in ports
controlled by the Catholic Regents.
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What cause would I have
to attack a friendly nation?
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What is this arguing?
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He believes
the Portuguese are only here to profit.
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I will not be discussing this any further.
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You stay.
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What is between you and the Anjin?
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Nothing.
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Only words.
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I won't tolerate
this disruption in my clan.
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We are dangerously close to defeat.
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I understand.
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One cannot serve themselves
above the cause.
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The Anjin will not be granted his request.
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But to settle his mind,
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please arrange for him
a night at a brothel.
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Hire their finest courtesan.
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I will negotiate personally.
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And join him.
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As a translator.
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In case he talks while he pillows.
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Ishido's taken the Regents hostage.
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They've been locked in the castle,
along with their families.
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He's forcing their vote against Toranaga.
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We leave now.
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Come, this way.
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Please hurry Shizu, get on this.
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She won't make it.
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We'll only slow you down.
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You must warn Toranaga yourself.
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No.
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Please, I beg you.
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- Hurry!
- I'm sorry.
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Lady Ruri!
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Dress.
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You must leave at once.
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Your father was murdered in Kyoto.
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Never return.
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Mother...
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It's time for you to go now.
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He slays the false vassal.
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We're prisoners to that woman.
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It serves no one to say such things.
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This will be over soon...
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When?
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When the fifth Regent is confirmed
and Toranaga's threat is eliminated.
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Then Ishido will release the hostages.
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We'll always be their hostages now.
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We're just puppets.
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It's the end of the Realm.
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Is this the era of peace
our Taikō fought to build?
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We cannot be too safe these days.
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Nonsense.
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Ishido is nothing more
than the Taikō's favored koshô.
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Good at some things, never great.
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You are choosing the wrong ally.
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Dear Lady Ochiba...
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I was sorry to hear
of your father's death.
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Terrible, how powerless we can be to fate.
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We are all just pebbles,
pushed and pulled by the currents.
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My husband is the ruler of Japan,
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and I was unable to give him an heir...
did you know that?
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This has been in my family
for over a hundred years.
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It is the only one of its kind.
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I am prepared to pass it on
to the consort who can bear us a son.
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You would be known
as "Ochiba no kata" from now on.
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A woman may lose everything
she's ever had--
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but she may also take it back.
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She must stare without fear
into the cruel eyes of fate--
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and make herself seen.
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If we have a son,
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prestige will spread in every direction...
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Lord Ito...
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Your depiction of our late master was
quite profound.
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Too kind, Lord Ishido.
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I am but a weak flicker
to his glow of light.
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You're not alone.
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As a boy,
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I looked up to the Taikō as proof
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that even a peasant like me
could lift himself to great heights.
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Some are born under a banner of greatness,
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others must claim it.
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Your nōh skills are unparalleled,
Lord Ito.
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Though you are taller
than the Taikō I once served.
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If only I could cut myself at the knees...
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A minor fault, of course.
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I take it seriously.
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Acting is my grand passion.
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And how about politics?
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Have you heard of the plot
against the Heir?
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Toranaga's provocations
must come to an end.
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Would you join the Council
and vote for his death?
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I'm grateful for your wisdom
in suggesting Lord Ito.
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In all my time with the Taikō,
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he never spoke of a woman
like he spoke of you.
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I'm beginning to understand why.
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I miss the Taikō's strength.
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Truly.
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It's as if we live in his shadow.
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In most ways.
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Though, in the end, he fell short.
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He failed to rid us of Toranaga.
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Why is it you hate him so much?
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Eliminate Toranaga...
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and it will be your shadow we speak of.
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All of Osaka belongs to Ishido now.
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You are lucky to have escaped alive.
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This is lunacy.
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My father has only ever been
loyal to the Heir.
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They are the ones who conspire!
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Our allies are pressured
into becoming our enemies
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with each passing day.
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Unless they see
through this obscenity and protest.
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If we wait for that, it will be too late.
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The time has come...
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...for Crimson Sky.
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What is Crimson Sky?
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A plan formulated long ago...
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A single, violent rush on Osaka Castle.
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We would eliminate the Council
and form a new government.
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With Toranaga as sole Regent.
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Shōgun...
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An attack on Osaka is
like strangling your own neck.
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Ishido's allies control the city.
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Lord Toranaga's half-brother...
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Saeki Nobutatsu.
We could join forces with him.
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It wouldn't be enough.
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What would you do, Omi?
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A fifth Council member,
obedient to Ishido,
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will mean your death sentence.
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Then it is Crimson Sky.
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Perhaps that could work, but...
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Why take the risk when there's still time?
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There's no time for waiting.
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Father--
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reclaim our family's legacy
and become Shōgun.
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You have never lost a battle--
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Because I've never been first
to declare one!
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There will be no Crimson Sky.
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I have never sought to be Shōgun,
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and I never will.
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Find me a plan that isn't certain death.
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You will forgive the late notice, Gin,
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but Toranaga instructed me
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to inquire if the Lady Kiku is
free tonight.
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What an honor.
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And such lovely lacquerware too.
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Unfortunately, it's nothing special.
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I'm ashamed we must use it,
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but so much was destroyed
in the earthquake.
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Lady Kiku would be honored
to attend to this client.
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Although...
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I'd have to reimburse others
who booked her.
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And, after the earthquake fires,
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poor Kiku had four kosodes
ruined by water.
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Hard times for us all.
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500 monme would be acceptable.
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So sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear.
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I do not wish to buy
all the Tea Houses in Izu,
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only the Lady's services for one evening.
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I don't know if you've heard
of my Tea House,
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but please understand
it is no ordinary brothel.
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I might even say there is no place
like it in all of Japan.
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My ladies are artists
of the very first class.
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They enrich the mind
and nurture the spirit.
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I assure you
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the price is quite merited.
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Then 100 monme.
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400 monme would be the lowest I could go.
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00:32:21,041 --> 00:32:26,416
Surely Lord Toranaga
would want to enjoy his evening.
267
00:32:27,083 --> 00:32:28,541
Oh, so sorry--
268
00:32:29,666 --> 00:32:31,291
Lady Kiku is not for Lord Toranaga.
269
00:32:34,208 --> 00:32:36,583
She is a gift for the Anjin.
270
00:32:39,125 --> 00:32:40,875
He is hatamoto now,
271
00:32:41,333 --> 00:32:44,291
and chief admiral
of Lord Toranaga's cannon regiment.
272
00:32:45,041 --> 00:32:47,208
I would think 200 monme are enough.
273
00:32:48,458 --> 00:32:52,458
Then, will you be joining him?
274
00:32:52,458 --> 00:32:53,541
It's only...
275
00:32:54,750 --> 00:33:00,916
I've heard you and the Anjin
are never seen apart.
276
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,666
It is my duty to translate, yes.
277
00:33:04,083 --> 00:33:10,166
Then I think you will enjoy your time
in my Tea House.
278
00:33:13,166 --> 00:33:17,000
Some call it the Willow World,
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because my ladies
are like lilies in a lake.
280
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:26,000
There you will find no prying eyes
from the outside world.
281
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,333
All of this I guarantee...
for so very little.
282
00:33:35,416 --> 00:33:37,666
300 monme will suffice.
283
00:33:39,125 --> 00:33:42,708
You will be treasured guests.
284
00:33:48,125 --> 00:33:52,375
Lady Gin says with Lord Toranaga's support
285
00:33:52,375 --> 00:33:56,125
I could become
the most cherished courtesan in the Kantō.
286
00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:04,708
I don't understand why Lord Toranaga
287
00:34:04,791 --> 00:34:10,791
values the barbarian so much.
288
00:34:14,041 --> 00:34:17,125
The barbarian is nothing to me.
289
00:35:39,250 --> 00:35:42,750
I hope you will enjoy
your private evening.
290
00:36:28,625 --> 00:36:32,791
I am honored to serve the Anjin
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00:36:32,791 --> 00:36:34,458
on this beautiful evening.
292
00:36:35,125 --> 00:36:39,958
And I'm grateful that Lady Mariko
has also come to this place.
293
00:37:40,541 --> 00:37:42,750
The Anjin compliments your service.
294
00:37:46,291 --> 00:37:51,333
I imagine everything is quite different
from his homeland.
295
00:38:03,458 --> 00:38:06,625
He seems to prefer his homeland.
296
00:38:07,833 --> 00:38:09,541
May I?
297
00:38:27,291 --> 00:38:29,000
Hana, look where the flask just was.
298
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:30,208
What do you see?
299
00:38:30,958 --> 00:38:32,875
I see nothing, Elder Sister.
300
00:38:32,958 --> 00:38:36,000
You see where the flask is no longer.
301
00:38:37,041 --> 00:38:40,833
Presence is felt most keenly in absence.
302
00:38:41,583 --> 00:38:43,041
Yes, Elder Sister.
303
00:39:03,125 --> 00:39:06,958
Where we are is a private place.
304
00:39:07,875 --> 00:39:11,500
Dark... if one wants it dark.
305
00:39:15,666 --> 00:39:19,291
A woman cannot look away
when another suffers.
306
00:39:26,750 --> 00:39:28,791
Perhaps the Anjin would allow me
to explain
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00:39:28,875 --> 00:39:32,291
why the Willow World is among
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00:39:32,375 --> 00:39:34,208
the most treasured planes of existence.
309
00:39:53,750 --> 00:39:59,500
People who come to this
place have something they wish to forget.
310
00:40:01,083 --> 00:40:06,500
Be it boredom, pain,
hardship, disappointment.
311
00:40:14,666 --> 00:40:19,291
They believe this place is
about physical pleasure...
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00:40:27,708 --> 00:40:31,083
The people I meet...
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00:40:38,958 --> 00:40:44,166
I offer you relief from this.
314
00:41:21,458 --> 00:41:26,166
...to be here with me now.
315
00:41:42,541 --> 00:41:46,375
I would like to invite the Anjin
into a private room.
316
00:41:51,500 --> 00:41:53,625
Will you join us?
317
00:41:57,416 --> 00:41:59,750
It must only be you.
318
00:43:22,083 --> 00:43:24,333
All my father does
is lavish him with gifts these days.
319
00:43:26,458 --> 00:43:29,000
Fortune does appear to smile on him.
320
00:43:33,625 --> 00:43:35,916
He expresses his gratitude.
321
00:43:36,666 --> 00:43:39,083
Tell him, please visit again.
322
00:43:39,625 --> 00:43:41,833
I will count the moments.
323
00:44:22,958 --> 00:44:23,791
How did it go?
324
00:44:25,750 --> 00:44:28,208
The Anjin was pleased with his gift.
325
00:44:28,875 --> 00:44:30,750
Kiku is exceptional.
326
00:44:33,916 --> 00:44:34,958
Mariko...
327
00:44:36,291 --> 00:44:39,041
What do you remember of your childhood?
328
00:44:42,250 --> 00:44:45,583
I recall you being close
with Ochiba no kata.
329
00:44:47,750 --> 00:44:51,833
She was Ruri then.
330
00:44:54,416 --> 00:44:56,291
After she became Ochiba no kata,
331
00:44:56,958 --> 00:44:58,541
I have not seen her since.
332
00:45:01,708 --> 00:45:04,125
The way she wars against us...
333
00:45:07,041 --> 00:45:13,708
What could have turned her
into the woman she is today?
334
00:45:15,416 --> 00:45:16,333
Fate.
335
00:45:18,291 --> 00:45:19,458
Hardship.
336
00:45:20,625 --> 00:45:24,083
We all have things we must war against.
337
00:45:26,041 --> 00:45:30,583
Yet most of us do it with honor.
338
00:45:34,208 --> 00:45:35,166
Forgive me...
339
00:45:36,250 --> 00:45:39,541
but most of you are men.
340
00:45:44,541 --> 00:45:50,458
A man may go to war for many reasons.
341
00:45:51,541 --> 00:45:52,583
Conquest,
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00:45:53,166 --> 00:45:54,208
pride,
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00:45:54,750 --> 00:45:56,291
power...
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00:45:57,583 --> 00:45:59,083
But a woman
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00:46:02,458 --> 00:46:05,416
is simply at war.
346
00:46:10,500 --> 00:46:12,000
Your father once told me
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00:46:13,208 --> 00:46:17,083
he wished you'd been born a man.
348
00:46:18,333 --> 00:46:19,625
Now I see why.
349
00:46:21,125 --> 00:46:26,791
He had great plans for you.
350
00:46:30,250 --> 00:46:37,250
Then he should have married me better.
351
00:46:41,708 --> 00:46:42,916
Mariko...
352
00:46:44,750 --> 00:46:46,291
You didn't know?
353
00:46:48,166 --> 00:46:51,208
It was all his plan.
354
00:46:52,333 --> 00:46:54,500
Marrying you off.
355
00:46:55,291 --> 00:46:59,416
To put you as far away
from his fight as possible.
356
00:47:00,208 --> 00:47:01,916
So that you might survive
357
00:47:02,708 --> 00:47:09,208
and one day return to finish it.
358
00:47:21,833 --> 00:47:26,833
All these years, you must have known...
359
00:47:29,708 --> 00:47:36,666
I've failed him.
360
00:47:42,291 --> 00:47:45,375
No, Mariko.
361
00:47:48,875 --> 00:47:54,291
Your war isn't over.
362
00:48:01,541 --> 00:48:03,458
The time for discussion has now concluded.
363
00:48:03,708 --> 00:48:07,708
Lord Ito is loyal to the Heir,
and to this Council.
364
00:48:08,500 --> 00:48:10,958
In one voice, let us vote.
365
00:48:17,583 --> 00:48:19,166
Yes to Ito.
366
00:48:20,333 --> 00:48:22,166
Yes to Ito.
367
00:48:27,875 --> 00:48:29,166
What say you, Sugiyama?
368
00:48:32,208 --> 00:48:33,583
I'm sorry.
369
00:48:34,625 --> 00:48:36,000
But no.
370
00:48:36,916 --> 00:48:42,083
There has been no evidence
of any plot against the Heir.
371
00:48:42,875 --> 00:48:47,208
I will conduct no vote
372
00:48:47,291 --> 00:48:52,041
until all hostages are released.
373
00:48:53,750 --> 00:48:54,916
Hostages?
374
00:48:55,416 --> 00:49:01,208
You dishonor the wishes
of our great Taikō.
375
00:49:02,750 --> 00:49:06,125
Then you dishonor
the most loyal servant of this Realm.
376
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,208
I alone here
377
00:49:16,291 --> 00:49:22,000
serve the Realm.
378
00:49:29,791 --> 00:49:31,875
It will mean a delay,
379
00:49:32,708 --> 00:49:34,625
there's no doubt about it.
380
00:49:34,833 --> 00:49:37,500
I will propose Sugiyama's impeachment,
381
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,708
then plans can move ahead.
382
00:49:41,083 --> 00:49:43,125
So sorry, but I'd like to know--
383
00:49:43,916 --> 00:49:45,750
When is "then"?
384
00:49:46,875 --> 00:49:48,541
Please be patient.
385
00:49:53,458 --> 00:49:55,875
You're playthings.
386
00:49:56,583 --> 00:50:00,916
You have no idea the enemy you face...
387
00:50:02,625 --> 00:50:05,666
You asked before
388
00:50:05,750 --> 00:50:10,166
why I hold these feelings
against Toranaga.
389
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:15,541
It began in my childhood in Azuchi.
390
00:50:15,625 --> 00:50:21,250
All those years I watched him...
391
00:50:23,416 --> 00:50:25,708
whispering...
392
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:28,125
plotting...
393
00:50:29,333 --> 00:50:34,291
Sure, it was Akechi Jinsai
who took my father's life,
394
00:50:38,500 --> 00:50:41,708
but it was Toranaga who planned it.
395
00:50:42,208 --> 00:50:48,041
His secret heart is no secret to me.
396
00:50:48,708 --> 00:50:53,875
Serious accusations.
397
00:50:58,166 --> 00:51:03,458
Tell them in public
and his end will be swift.
398
00:51:03,833 --> 00:51:06,083
What would be the point?
399
00:51:06,708 --> 00:51:10,250
None of you can stop him.
400
00:51:15,041 --> 00:51:18,083
Have you heard what I went through
401
00:51:18,166 --> 00:51:22,250
to give the Taikō a son?
402
00:51:25,041 --> 00:51:28,000
No one else could achieve it.
403
00:51:29,333 --> 00:51:33,333
Hundreds of women... consorts...
404
00:51:34,791 --> 00:51:36,708
Not Daiyoin...
405
00:51:37,458 --> 00:51:40,708
Daiyoin... who drugged me with bitter herbs,
406
00:51:40,791 --> 00:51:45,875
forced me to endure unmentionable things
in order to conceive.
407
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,541
Only I become mother of the Heir.
408
00:51:53,333 --> 00:51:58,875
And do you know how?
409
00:52:08,333 --> 00:52:14,291
By compelling fate to look at me.
410
00:52:18,125 --> 00:52:21,875
So I could
411
00:52:21,958 --> 00:52:26,458
scratch out its eyes.
412
00:52:30,583 --> 00:52:32,875
Wife, wake up! We're leaving the castle.
413
00:52:35,125 --> 00:52:35,958
Wake up!
414
00:52:53,708 --> 00:52:57,583
It was wrong
415
00:52:57,666 --> 00:53:00,958
to side with a simple bureaucrat.
416
00:53:02,666 --> 00:53:07,000
That's all you will ever be.
417
00:53:19,791 --> 00:53:21,541
Lord Sugiyama is dead...
418
00:53:23,583 --> 00:53:27,958
Killed by bandits
while trying to leave Osaka.
419
00:53:31,041 --> 00:53:35,166
Ishido will soon control the Council.
420
00:53:37,291 --> 00:53:41,416
I expect to be
421
00:53:41,500 --> 00:53:45,458
falsely impeached
422
00:53:46,208 --> 00:53:50,625
and war will be declared on my clan.
423
00:53:51,291 --> 00:53:53,375
I desire no lands.
424
00:53:53,916 --> 00:53:56,083
I want no honors.
425
00:53:57,416 --> 00:54:02,666
But if traitors place
the Taikō's heir in danger,
426
00:54:03,125 --> 00:54:05,708
then I must defend him.
427
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:10,291
Crimson Sky it will be.
428
00:54:16,291 --> 00:54:19,500
We'll send a message
to my brother asking for his support,
429
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:24,000
then we'll rush Osaka
and obliterate our enemies.
430
00:54:24,916 --> 00:54:26,000
The time has come.