This thing.
Will you stay with me?
Yes
You really will?
I will.
This is the last time.
We will be together.
Stop this now!
Drop dead.
Bastard!
I just came here to watch.
He is the dealer of justice.
Interesting, isn't he.
Imagine if you were to kill him, Zatoichi.
Imagine...your father.
Darling, darling.
Sorry.
Darling.
I want to...
I want to see your village, someday.
We can watch the ocean.
In the spring we can
sow seeds.
Yes.
I am happy,
I found you.
Hey.
What's wrong?
Are you alright?
Ichi. Whatever happened to you?
Hey, what do you thing you're doing? Bring it over, quickly.
Yes.
Don't dare drop it.
Yes.
Grill it.
Hurry up!
Yes.
The master enters.
Hello.
Does it suit me?
Yes.
W-why have you come back here?
By rights you should not be seeking court with us.
Stop.
To sashimi, the blade is everything.
If the blade is
poor,
the flesh is as good as spoiled.
The blade must be sharp so as to cut
at a feather's whisper.
When one places sea bass in the mouth,
how many is most flavorful, do you think?
Well... about four or five?
You're new to this, aren't you?
THe flavor is best tasted,
after one, or two, days.
What about Yamakiya-san of this house?
One must not blame all on fate,
for it is man that choses its fate.
Yamakiya-san?
Has he not left on a journey?
Yes?
Yes.
A journey?
Ah, of course.
He says Yamakiya-san is on a journey. Isn't that good?
Would one not desire to see the breadth of the sea?
All ways lead unto the ocean.
The world is wide.
The world?
Now !!
I presume you know official Kitagawa?
Well, that man...
You know of Kitagawa-san?
No... I don't know.
What?
It hurts!
Don't come here.
Oi!
The bream is excellent. Eat some.
Two bass in the mouth is best.
What you have there is 'caviar'.
Take it.
Right, you may begin!!
Yes.
Goro.
What a shame...
Sleeping as deep as a dead man.
Tomorrow...
Feed him and send him on his way.
But, mother!
We have Goro to think about.
What would we do if he brings trouble?
That man...
Is a Yakuza, what you wanted to be.
Ichi...
is not the man you think he is.
If it wasn't for Ichi,
we would never have made it home, would not have this food.
I told him once,
I want to be a farmer, in a village where I can see the sea.
Think you can see the sea from here?
I don't know what you're talking about, mother.
Farmer, farmer, over and over.
Ouch.
This?
Sorry.
I thought I heard a rat and I did, a big, sneaky rat.
Excuse me,
That...
I cannot see, so.
If we leave you be will you leave us all alone?
I cannot.
A farmer has nowhere else to go.
As long as there is soil, a farmer has nowhere else to go.
Ichi, this way.
Yes.
Wait!
Over here.
You know, wrinkles...
What? Wrinkles, like on your face?
I can't believe you're worried about that.
In the sun in weather like this, any beauty would get them.
Am I the only one to get wrinkles?
You were smooth as stone when you arrived as a bride, weren't you…
And how long ago was that.
Wrinkles is a sign of how much you work.
But then dogs and cats, and fish don't get none.
Well, that's because fish live in the sea.
And dogs and cats have fur on their faces.
Hey, big boy, where are the wrinkles on your face?
She's right! I don't believe it!
Look closely, he's actually a good looking man.
Don't be silly. All of you are beautiful!
Come on, take the head like this,
Yes.
put your thumb under its chin, just slip it in,
What! You're good at this!
I'm not sure if I can't see after all,
You cut off the head just under its jowls.
Big boy, how old are you?
Hey, how old are you?
A little over thirty.
Do you think fish get goosebumps?
Fish don't get goosebumps.
If fish got goosebumps, then crabs and shrimp would too.
That's true.
Darling.
They say it's your first time at sea!
Yasuke, you've not been drinking again.
Yes, looking forward to it.
Said you've living out back.
Yes, my name is Ichi.
Isuke!
What was your name?
Erm... Ichi.
Says his name's Ichi.
Said you've living out back.
Yes.
Oi, look where you're walking.
Out my way.
What the hell!!
Everyone who crosses this line pays three bu.
What do you think you're doing!
This is Shimaji's territory.
Ah! They crossed the line.
Three bu. Pay up.
You too!
How dare you!
What do you think you're doing!
Yasuke!
Take three bu off them, and you lot shut up.
Come on and try it!
What's happening?
We're not to get involved.
Get back.
You too.
Excuse me.
Ichi.
You've come home, haven't you?
Everyone you once knew,
they've all gone now.
I am sorry for how I was, for causing you trouble.
No, it was I who was at fault.
I'm sorry, Toyo-san.
I'm with a local man.
Really?
That is good.
Is he a fisherman?
No.
His business isn't of the land?
And you?
Ichi, Ichi!
I'm glad, you look well.
Bye.
Kitagawa may have...
What?
May have found out about our meeting.
Shall we kill him?
You shall be the messenger, you see?
The small fish will become calm.
Please, do nothing rash.
If the farmers were to write a Tanran scroll,
It would be our downfall!
They are useful merely out of convenience, are they not?
What do the farmers matter?
You see,
there is a ship, a gigantic ship, from a country called 'Roshia',
waiting to come.
How could you...with a foreign country…
You'll lose your head.
The Yakuza, the government too,
all are perverse in their way. It is but business, after all.
Yes?
You see,
when bean paste is applied thoroughly,
to the outside of the rice cake,
the rice cake stays quite pliable.
Do you want it or not...the bean paste?
If all is not without the approval of Kitagawa, then...
I am looking forward to the meeting with Kitagawa.
If you've made up your mind,
eat it!
I said its two bu per boat, two she per fisherman.
You pay by the end of the month, understood?
I understand not a jot of what you've said.
What?
We are farmers, farmers who go to sea when time is spare.
We cannot pay that amount.
What the hell come here!
What are you doing!
Stop, stop.
Don't think you can run away.
Keep out of this.
Calm down.
In lieu of your debts to Shimaji,
we have brought with us the deeds to your daughter.
What did you say.
We have made our payments to Shimaji.
Since the deeds have now passed to us we care not a jot what you say.
We have not obligation to you!
If you take Yae from us...
What a parent.
How dare you!
If you don't like it stop fishing
and join my men.
So young, yet so foul-smelling.
You really do smell bad.
Stop this!
What the hell are you?
That was a bold move.
I'll kill you.
Sorry.
Ichi.
It's alright.
Out the way!
Ichi, Ichi.
Perfect, I had an itch just around there.
Don't play the fool!
Is it a doctor?
He's not a doctor.
Who did this?
Nevermind, it doesn't matter.
Oh, the willow.
He's always a little shy, this one.
Ichi, you know the way home, right?
Yes.
Igusa, we beg of you.
It'll be alright.
You'll let in the sand, shut it on your way!
And you...
Where did you come from... Nevermind, it doesn't matter.
You've got good legs.
Could I have them?
I wonder...
if legs could really so easily be
chopped and changed.
I've chopped legs, but not changed legs.
Then again I've got this one.
Well, then.
Let's give this a go.
Lower your head, your head.
Yes.
You know, really,
I only treat farmers and fishermen.
Sorry.
Ah, what are you...
Sewing.
I just can't get it through the eye.
Then, I'll be off.
W-wait a moment.
An elder needs help here.
Right,
then I'll,
What?
You'll what?
Here's the thread,
the needle.
Does...
Does it make any difference if you face the light?
It's through!
How?
What will you use it for?
Don't worry.
I'll just put this in the fire.
Hot, hot.
Hold me tightly, hold on.
I'll end up stitching the wrong place.
Wait, wait, wait.
Where's the needle?
Ah, there it is.
One more, one more, one more.
Oi, Sumi.
Yes.
It seems that Yamakiya is done for.
Recently,
when he saw a journey in the fortune-telling,
we couldn't make good of things,
...take care for your life.
Well, at least relax a little.
We don't want to invite misfortune.
This year will be a bad year.
But, even so.
That's right.
Was I wrong to hand over her deeds?
Am I at fault for everything now?
What do you think, Takuzo?
Am I in the wrong!
Oi!
You, stop there!
Yes.
Please, forgive me if I have been careless.
I am blind, see.
Apologies for my rudeness.
Such a scary face,
You, you masseur.
The man with the bandages seems to be a real masseur.
Come on quickly.
Yes.
Your muscles are stiff.
Sir has many worries,
bunched up round here.
Please if you could not watch me, sir.
I'm embarrassed.
Where did you come from?
From over there.
I placed one foot in front of the other and came as far as the sea.
The sea is good.
One can go anywhere.
You may go anywhere?
Yes.
Sometimes, I go over to the other side.
That masseur.
Insect repellant.
Ah, the smell...
Like I said, Shimaji said to carry on.
But we have given you almost everything.
Shimaji is Shimaji,
and I'm not Shimaji.
Don't.
You'll pay as long as we have the deeds.
Plus interest, right.
Time to go.
There! Ah,
Blood...
Ouch.
You're not totally blind, are you.
Really, I can't remember what I can't see.
You pay three ryu, within three days.
Remember.
I'm scared.
You can't no matter what?
It's Shimaji's family boss.
No, even if we roughed him up.
It's not that he won't pay the loan, it's more he can't...
They'll be turned into port coolies.
But, without fishing and farm work
they'll have nothing to eat.
What do Yakuza care about idiot farmers!
What do you think you're doing!
What are you doing.
Wait.
Please, you shouldn't do that in here.
What?
I have an owner.
Having such collateral as a wife seems a waste.
Right?
Please, stop this.
Do you even know what kind of woman you are?
Stop.
Wait.
Stop this, now.
My apologies, please, I must close up now.
Darling.
Sorry.
Let us start. The cup.
Playing upon one plus one, evens.
The dice are down. Place your bets.
Evens.
We have evens. Place your bets.
Odds, evens, place your bets. Place your bets.
Evens.
We have evens.
Odds!
Evens.
We have evens, we have evens. Are there no odds?
Odds!
Are there no more odds.
Odds.
Are there no more odds, no more odds.
Place your bets. Are there no more odds. Last call for odds.
Place your bets.
Last call for odds.
Any more for odds?
Odds!
All bets are down. Open the dice.
Three and six makes odds.
Quietly.
Takuzo.
And let us start. Ready the cup.
Playing upon three plus six, odds.
Three ryo and two bu.
You should have kept playing.
I only have eyes for gambling, you see.
This is quite enough.
Thank you.
Ichi.
You're Ichi of Zato, aren't you?
I thought as much.
Thank you for losing the bet for Yasuke-san.
I am grateful.
That man?
Maybe I'm losing my touch.
No, you've not changed at all.
You smell of the soil.
Well.
This is me.
Let's meet again, if the occasion arises.
Yes.
Not in a gambling parlor.
Thank you.
How may I show my gratitude?
Are we there yet?
Nearly there.
You said nearly a while back.
This time we're nearly there.
Saying nearly there, nearly there to a blind man.
Is as if you're saying I should try harder.
Nearly there.
Goro-san.
Goro-san! Sandles,
sandles,
What if we fling sandals and the loser carries the water.
How about it?
What?
If you're a man you'll take me up on the challenge.
I'm not good at it.
A little more...
What do we,
I turned the buckets over by mistake because I didn't see.
What's blindness like?
Total darkness.
Is it scary?
Yes.
When I was about your age I could see though.
When everything you know disappears
it is scary.
So scary, you end up doing stupid things.
This'll dry in a second.
Today's quota is thirty logs each I say, thirty logs.
Return the deeds.
What about the rest of us.
I want the port expanded,
with great big storehouses built all along here.
How about it? Will you help?
Don't make fools of us farmers.
Don't think of running to the authorities.
This is Tendo's village.
Please, give her deeds back.
There a man named Zato-Ichi staying with you, isn't there?
No one of that name...
Liar!
Everyone at my place are farmers.
The gambling parlor.
Yes.
Don't dare turn your back on me.
Sorry.
Isuke,
From today this is Tendo's gambling parlor. Out the way!
We said get going.
If you're going over the mountain the left way is quicker.
The left way is quicker, if you're going over the mountain.
And this way?
Don't know.
They told me not to go, it's dangerous.
Aloes-wood.
Aloes-wood?
Yes.
A perfume called aloes-wood.
Is there anywhere pretty close-by?
Yes.
Over here.
Child.
Yes?
Is there a man at your home
who is called Zato-Ichi?
Don't move!
Sorry.
Daddy.
What? Stay over there.
These days you're always angry.
Be quiet.
Let's try in here.
Don't be like that with the child.
He's spoiled.
Did you draw a good one?
Next time,
draw one for your father.
A-one-and-a-two.
Come on and tidy this up!
Tidy this up!
Pull it out form below, from below.
Come on quickly!
It's unbelievable.
When we have a bigger port, we can catch more fish.
Our sea,
will soon belong to Tendo too.
Come on, move, move!
There's more here.
You bastard!
Yasuke!
How dare you!
You bastard!
Stop it,
stop now!
Paying is enough, isn't it?
Isuke!
What? How dare you!
Please, be calm.
You guys.
Stop it!
Tatsuji.
Yes.
Want a little something to drink.
Yes.
Where do you think you're taking that hoe?
Ichi!
You're a farmer aren't you?
Mother, be quiet.
Why, why do you have to go?
We can't abandon Yasuke like that.
Alright, Ichi.
Yes.
For that idiot...
Hold it like you used to.
Ryuji.
Ichi!
Sorry.
I'm going out.
All men are fools!
Sorry.
You're week so, you can't fight a long time.
Yes.
Over there. Yes.
Leave it, leave it.
Yes.
It's hard that father thinks more fondly of you,
that of me his son.
Really.
I am the one with the father.
You think so of me?
My apologies, Tatsuji.
I can hardly say but,
he scares me.
I am very sorry.
For yourself, and for Toyo.
We won't stay quiet if you do this.
Oh, that hurt.
Just try it!
You think I won't?
Women belong to the strongest men.
I'm talking about you!
Shimaji and Tatsuji both,
sold you out.
The devil's in you people!
How can you do this to farmers!
Don't you dare.
Yasuke.
Do you know what comes after the finger?
This, this!
Please, forgive me, forgive me.
Wait right there!
Could I not take his place in this game?
How dare you bring that in here, peasant farmer.
Is this place good?
Yasuke-san.
If I win this bet,
Yasuke returns to us,
and we go home.
Do we understand each other?
This is Tendo's gambling parlor.
If you to loose there will be consequences.
And anyway,
you can't even see the pictures.
It's not good to rely on your eyes too much.
And how do you tell the good woman from the bad?
You no-good rat!
I am ready.
Bets on.
Kabu.
Kuppin.
Such an ill-mannered hand.
You!
Don't take a rat's ears so lightly!
Ryu-san.
Ryu-san, Yasuke-san.
Welcome home.
Darling.
I apologize.
Don't apologize so.
I'm fine.
I apologize.
Let's leave together.
Let's go somewhere together.
I can't.
I'm saying I want to.
I am a Yakuza's wife,
I can bear through it.
You are less prepared than I.
We…
We are not prepared at all.
Toyo,
I want you to,
go with Ichi and leave this village.
What are you saying?
You know that Ichi,
has come home?
Go, go with Ichi.
I am...
I am your wife.
Toyo.
Prepare the fire.
Yes.
Set them all alight!
Yes.
Are you scared?
Inside of you,
runs my blood.
You and I are one.
So it snows?
You,
take it.
Kill anyone who dares resist.
No one to be spared!
Heipo!
Run away!
This is your fault!
How dare you, you're no farmer.
Heipo!
Toshi-san.
What are you doing? Out the way!
I said, out the way!
Shall we leave together? What's your name?
Yasuke-san.
Bastard!
Ichi, run away.
Darling. Daddy.
Darling!
Please stop.
Kill him!
No, stop.
Ichi! Don't, please.
It's enough.
I'm sorry but,
please go to,
Genkichi's place.
Sorry.
I will come,
later.
Ichi.
Please do nothing.
Yes.
I am sorry.
Thank you for everything.
I am forever in your debt.
Now, please let me go.
I guess...
I guess I am not a farmer, after all.
Don't worry.
It's just the way you've lived your life.
We...
We value life so we may live it.
The strong live the harder life.
Never forget us.
I was a murderer,
but,
I came here,
and you let me live as you...
So warm.
Careful of the snow.
Juzo!
You're just farmers,
stay back!
That kind of woman likes her men strong.
Toyo is my wife, I say!
My wife...
I haven't got time for this!
This is the end of you, Shimaji.
Come with me.
How dare he...
That bastard…
Hold on, Tatsuji.
I-Ichi.
Toyo is...
My...
You're no farmer.
You're Zato-Ichi, the Yakuza.
Toyo was a lot of fun.
And Ichi...
Darling!
Darling.
Shall we get him to take it?
But,
he helped Yasuke, didn't he?
There is no place for him here.
and anyway, Yasuke is dead,
and our village destroyed.
Is he a good man, really?
Whatever he is, he ain't no a farmer.
He's the same as Tendo, a Yakuza.
Please,
would you let me do this?
Who are you!
Murderers!
But I did just exactly as you wanted.
But I did just exactly as you wanted!
Understood.
The government men and Tendo would not
think you had taken this with you.
Eveyone agreed,
only Ichi could get over the mountain.
Yes.
I am sorry it had to come to this
after only just returning to the village.
When things settle down, lets be farmers together again.
If I can be of any help to Ryu-san and everyone else...
There are three paths to cross the mountains.
You remember, don't you.
Take the path farthest to the right.
It's…
It's a short cut that only the village people know of.
The path farthest to the right.
Yes.
The right way.
Understood.
What can I say.
What's left to say, Ichi.
Itchy.
What have you done with it.
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
Isuke.
I didn't know.
Is everyone...?
Yasuke.
I too, ran away from home,
I wanted to be a Yakuza.
With Ichi.
The truth is...
Ichi has left the village with a Tanran scroll.
Isuke, we need you to bide us some time,
so Ichi can make it over the mountain.
Can we count on you?
I...
I too want to do something for the village.
Ichi has taken the left way over the mountains.
So tell Tendo and the rest, tell them he took the right path.
The right path.
Where the hell are you!
Get out of sight.
The right path?
Is that a way over?
Like I said, tell Tendo and the rest that he's on the right path.
Understood.
Ichi has taken the left path.
Yes.
Leave it to me.
Isuke.
Father.
I'll,
go now.
Matsu,
take care.
Just wait a little longer,
it'll be light soon.
Well,
it doesn't really matter whether it's light or dark.
It looks to still be
snowing yet.
So it does.
God speed and come back alive.
At least, don't come back like this.
Yes.
You can see can't you?
I wonder...
I wonder will I still be blind in the next life?
I'm happy to have met such a fool
as you.
Please sir,
excuse the weak.
Neither Samurai nor Yakuza,
yet you risk your life.
The same as your father.
If farmers don't protect the village,
who will?
Apparently, a high-up government official is coming today.
I will take the animal trail up the mountain,
and head them off.
Why has it come to this?
Ichi, even, finally came home and...
Mother,
please stop saying that!
Before the government officials arrive...
Kill him!!
Yes.
Boss!
What is it?
Ichi has taken a Tanran scroll
and is on the right-most path over the mountain.
A Tanran scroll?
Who heard this?
Isuke heard it from his own father.
The left path is the quickest way
across the mountains.
Quickly!
Yes.
Let's go.
Look after grandma, alright?
I'm counting on you.
I won't need it today.
When I get back,
draw my face.
Ryuji, please come back.
Ryuji...
Daddy.
Right, right, right...
Understood.
Yes. Yes.
Goro! Where are you going!
Here he is!
Kill him!
Bastard.
Don't go that way!
Is that Isuke-san?
Ichi, you've taken the wrong path, you were meant to go left.
Bastard!
I'll kill you.
Ichi,
Ichi, go back.
No, I have to take this path.
I'm saying this way there is no path.
Ahead are cliffs, a dead end.
Go back, Ichi.
Go back yourself, Isuke-san.
I'm saying I have to go this way.
Double-crossing bastard!
Ichi.
Isuke-san!
You!
Wait right there! Bastard.
I said wait.
It's been some time since I met either Yamakiya or Shimaji.
I wonder how they are.
Kajihara.
I will not stand any liberties taken on this visit.
I never considered such a thing.
You, you bastard.
Are the government officials here?
Ichi!
That's enough.
That's enough, now!
Those meddling farmers,
look!
It's blank!
Can you not see!?
It's alright...
Take hold of this man.
Kajihara.
Explain.
If you are unable to explain,
we leave.
I am a farmer of this village,
Wait!
I beg of you.
Take this, take this!
What are you doing!
Please, forgive me!
Seppuku! Seppuku!
What is this?
My horse!
Kajihara! Ryu-san!
Hey, cut it, cut it!
I'll help you, cut it!
Just cut it.
Cane! My cane!
Where is it?
Ryu-san.
Ichi.
That's enough.
We...
We betrayed you.
That doesn't matter.
Whatever you ask of me, Ryu-san,
Whether it be based on truth or lies I would do it.
Ichi.
Please don't die.
I...
I am Ichi of Zato.
Daddy!
Daddy.
Is that...
Is that how I looked.
Daddy.
Is that...
how daddy...
looked?
Daddy.
I'll be a good boy.
I'll make rice. I'll catch lots of fish.
Daddy.
Goro!
Ryuji, Ryuji.
Get up.
Goro.
This is why...
This is why it never ends.
Sorry.
So, it's you.
They're mad, all of them.
Toraji.
Don't worry.
You're daddy is here.
Daddy.
Yes?
Can we stop now?
I want to stop now.
Soon, it will all end very soon.
That monster...
Daddy...
Daddy will...
Daddy will get him.
Alright.
Monster.
There he is.
I did it, I did it.
The End
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