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SHADOW WARRIORS III (Kage no Gundan Ill)

TARAO Hanzo: CHIBA Shinichi

Ocho: SHIHOIVII Etsuko

Sasuke: SANADA Hiroyuki

Ryuken: KAWARAZAKI Kenzo Hayata: KUROSAKI Hikaru

Kijiro: SAKITSU Ryusuke Dairoku: SEIGC) Taishi Kobue: TSUKASA Rumiko

Okimi: KURITA Yoko Narrator: HASHIZUIVIE lsao

JAC: KAI Michio INADA Tatsuo YANC) Kazuhiro

HON'AIVIl Chikako SATO l\/Iari

SANC) Mamoru NAGANC) Tatsuya l-IORI Mitsuaki

SATOMI Wake YASUOKA Machiko MATSUMURA Yasuyo

l-IIKITA Yasumori l-IATANO l-liroshi IVVASAKI Reiko TOMINAGA Kayoko OZAKI Toshiko

Sl-IIMLJRA Shinobu LJCl-IIDA l-HFOKO KCDNDC) Atsuko MATSLJMLJRA Mayumi MATSLJMLJRA Naomi

TAKIZAVVA Fumie SUVVA l-liroko KINOSl-IITA Yasuko TAMANO Reiko Title Cooperation: KOZAK

Kimyo: ISHIBASHI Renji

TOKUGAVVA Ivlitsusada: OZAVVA Eitaro

Senshu-ni: KISHIDA Kyoko

THE WITCH HUNT IN THE O'OKU (Obku Majogari)

FOURTH SHOGUN IETSUNA

CONCUBINE ONOBU

Onobu, I brought you your favorite flowers.

Thank you!

Your Excellency...

Would you want a girl or a boy?

Either one is fine... As long as it's healthy

Please tell me which one you would prefer...

Well...

A boy then.

I want an heir.

I'll bear you an heir then.

In appreciation for these flowers.

Concubine Onobu is five months pregnant.

If she safely delivers the baby the sickly shoguh, letsuha,

would have his first child.

I brought you a lucky charm for safe delivery today.

Tsunanori, present it.

He is the first son of Lord Tokugawa Mitsusada of Kishu.

It's known to have marvelous effects.

Is it from Kishu?

Tsunanori went to Kumano to pray for a safe delivery.

Thank you, Tsunanori.

Lord Kishu, I am very happy about it.

I will soon have an heir.

Onobu promised to bear me an heir.

Lady Yajima, if the concubine Onobu bears him an heir,

Her Ladyship will be upset.

Who knows what she might do in a fit ofjealousy.

Take extra precaution to assure nothing

happens to Lady Onobu.

Yes, sir.

HER LADYSHIP AKIKO

l-l ER LADYSl-l I P AKI KC) Akfko, Shogun fetsunats wife, is from the Fushfmf famffy

Akiko, Shogun /etsuna's wife, is from the Fushimi family

A present for her fifth month pregnancy?

Yes. I was about to take this to Lady Onobu.

Ayako.

Yes.

I've come all the way from Kyoto, but...

He hardly comes to see me.

To add insult to injury...

His concubine is pregnant.

This is the ultimate insult for a woman.

I want to go back to Kyoto.

Lady Akiko, please calm down!

What did I come here for, anyway?

Why...?

Take that gift immediately.

Lady Onobu is truly despicable.

Who are you?

I brought a gift from Her Ladyship.

I would like to see Lady Onobu.

Her Ladyship sent me a gift?

This gift from her makes me exceptionally happy.

Please relay to her my heartfelt gratitude.

I certainly will.

I was raised in the town, so I am very healthy

I will bear a healthy heir without fail.

Who are you?

Someone can't afford to have you bear an heir...

Lady Onobu's killer will be Her Ladyship's attendant.

Han-sen, you have another customer waiting for you.

Coming! Thank you!

Han-sen, will you wash down my back?

I'm first!

Will you massage me?

I still have other work to do!

I'll be back!

Han-sen, I'll be waiting!

I'm so busy...

Welcome.

Han-sen, come.

What is it?

This is something small from me.

The madam will scold me if I accept it.

Don't be like that. Just put it away quickly.

Hurry.

By the way they walk, they are ninja...

Female ninja?

They were dressed like castle attendants, and were carrying a palanquin.

Which ninja group?

My guess is the Negoro group from Kishu.

Kishu?

Ocho...

Her Ladyship in the castle might be in trouble again.

Confess!

Didn't you kill Lady Onobu under Her Ladyship's orders?

Isn't that right? Confess!

Stop torturing her!

I didn't do it...

Who did it?

I don't know.

I was attacked by some suspicious attendants,

and was unconscious.

Are you still making up stories?

I am not lying!

Will you confess already?

V\fasn't it Her Ladyship that ordered you to kill her?

Isn't that right?

I sense danger...

Danger?

At the rate things are going...

You'll end up as the killer of Lady Onobu.

And you'll be thrown into the depths of hell.

I'll go to see Lady Senshu-ni.

Lady Senshu-ni?

We need her help to get rid of the pending danger.

Aya, please come back safely.

Or l'll be all alone.

I am Lady Aya, who is running an errand for Her Ladyship.

This is the palanquin you requested.

Please get in.

Living alone, on the edge...

The first crossing of the River Styx...

Say your greetings to the Lord of Hades.

Will it go well? Oh, no.

Where's my applause, kid?

I'm going to use this big top ne>

If I succeed, please give me a big hand of applause.

Even I don't know the origin of this top.

But I can't hesitate here. So I'll give it a shot.

Here goes!

Please wait here.

Where are you going?

I'll be back in a couple of hours.

Very well.

You won't come back alive.

Anyone who gets in the way of that gentleman,

who is deemed to succeed as shogun after letsuna...

will have to die.

That's Lady Ayako.

You must be with the Negoro group!

Are you an lga ninja?

Have another!

Lady Ayako, are you all right?

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Her Ladyship...?

Yes.

She's about to be branded as the killer of Lady Onobu,

and won't be allowed to live.

Lady Senshu-ni, please help her.

Lord Kishu must be behind it.

Lord Kishu?

Is that true?

He wants to make his son, Tsunanori, the ne>

Lady Onobu's child would interfere in his ambitions.

So he killed her and had Her Ladyship take the blame.

Thus, killing two birds with one stone.

That's the kind of man he is.

That's hovv he is!

What should we do?

For the sake of peace...

The kind-hearted Princess Asanomiya came from Kyoto.

Hovv could he turn her into a killer!

Kobue, I am returning to the castle!

You must not do that!

If you go back, they will surely kill you this time!

No, I must go back and settle it with Lord Kishu!

No! You will be killed by Lord Kishu!

Lady Senshu-ni!

This lady Honri-in Takako, came from the Takatsukasa

family in Kyoto, to marry the third shogun, lemitsu.

And she never had a child of her own...

because of the coldness in the entire Edo Castle.

The thought that Akiko was going through what she had...

made her rage with fury

Where are you going?

Back to the castle.

As Honri-in Takako, I'll fight against Lord Kishu.

You'll fight him?

He's a despicable man who killed me,

and confined me to an underground life.

Can you vvin?

I must win.

Or the kind-hearted Akiko will be branded as a killer,

and fall to hell.

Hanzo, please help us again.

Please help Her Ladyship.

Now is not the time to return to the castle.

Even if you were to go back...

You have no proof that Lord Kishu is behind it.

Which means, you cannot win.

But if I don't do anything, he'll obtain the shogun's seat for his son, Tsunanori.

If he gets it, then someone else will have ambitions for it.

Greed and ambitions will overtake Edo Castle!

Edo Castle...

It's a nest for the greedy and powerful, anyway.

Just let them fight it out and devour each other.

Why should you be attached to Edo Castle?

They were cold toward me.

I felt like I was sitting on thorns.

But I was the wife of the Tokugawa Shogun.

So Edo Castle is my home.

Though we are not related by blood,

Shogun letsuna is my son.

His wife is my daughter-in-lavv.

I must protect them.

Hanzo, if I don't protect them with my life, who will?

Lady Senshu-ni...

Who will protect them?

Lady Senshu-ni...

Now is not the time to return to Edo Castle.

Please go back inside.

Please...

Lady Senshu-ni...

Aya...

Please take someone back with you to the castle.

She is coming to the castle as my attendant.

KISHU CLAN'S VILLA

Do you like to go hawking?

Yes!

Your great-grandfather, leyasu, loved to go hawking.

A good heart is not what is required of a shogun.

What is required is strength.

Strength of a hawk.

Letsuna is like a weak and sweet baby sparrow.

He can't administer government.

Tsunanori, you are the most fit to be shogun.

I want to you to become shogun at all costs.

Go!

Lord Kishu?

Hanzo thinks that Lady Onobu was killed by

female ninja in the castle, working for Lord Kishu.

There are 3,000 women in the O'oku (inner quarters).

Ocho, will you be able to find them?

V\fasn't Ivloeko attacked by a few suspicious women?

Yes.

Perhaps I can get their descriptions from her.

But she's in the torture room, with guards posted outside.

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So her lips were sealed...

Where are you going?

To get tung oil.

Thank you for your hard work.

This isn't where the tung oil is. Leave at once.

So you're female ninja with the Negoro group.

You're the ones who killed Lady Onobu.

Ivloeko killed...

Lady Onobu under Her Ladyship's orders.

Aren't you the one who sealed Ivloekds lips?

What proof do you have?

Enough of the accusations!

Proof? - Do you have any?

I'll find proof!

Arrest the intruder!

Hovv dare you call me an intruder!

Iga ninja are suspicious! They are rebels!

Iga ninja! Die!

My grandfather was one of the lga ninja

that saved Shogun leyasu's life.

My father was a shogunate spy that was commended

by Shogun lemitsu many times.

But one day, they were suddenly accused of treason

and all massacred.

Their deep loyalty turned against them in the end.

They were eliminated for knowing too much.

Mother!

Grandfather isn't a rebel!

Father isn't a rebel!

Iga ninja are suspicious! They are rebels!

I wanted to grow up quickly and become a skilled ninja,

to prove we are not rebels.

Iga ninja aren't rebels.

We are not suspicious!

Grandfather...

Father...

Mother...

Chief Hanzo...

Look, a noodle stand. - Shall we have a bowl?

Sounds good.

Udon for me! - Soba for me!

Welcome!

Any word from Ocho? - No, nothing.

I see.

I wonder what she's doing at the castle now.

No news is good news, right?

I was about to close up already

Ocho!

She's injured!

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Kijiro! Turn on the lights!

Lay her down here.

Don't get the wrong idea!

The chief sent a message with a pigeon,

telling me to come and replace the late lnokichi.

That is why I dashed over from Nagasaki.

I just got here, but I was tired, so I was resting.

Who are you?

Ryuken.

You're Ryuken?

If you were in Nagasaki...

You should know western medicine.

Please treat Ocho. - Sure.

So she's Ocho.

Move aside.

She's far prettier than the rumors.

Makes it worth treating her.

Please hold a service for Onobu at Zojo-ji Temple.

No.

Even if she was carrying your child.

She had a violent death. So she has a tainted soul.

She cannot be allowed in the family temple.

You, the shogun, will be ridiculed for breaking

the customs and nagging like a child.

Your Excellency, the Elders have a point.

In that case, no one needs to attend her service.

I will be there alone to have her buried there.

Your Excellency!

I feel sorry for Onobu!

Ivlitsusada!

Men, it looks like we'll have to grant him his wish.

His Excellency is an affectionate man.

We don't want it to add to his sadness,

and make him sick.

Mitsusada, thank you.

Thank you.

The funeral service will be held at Zojo-ji Temple.

The shogunate and daimyo lords will laugh it him for it.

He's a big fool.

Sir Tsunanori has to become the ne>

The kind shogun wants to have some private time with

Onobu at Zojo-ji Temple to bid farewell to her.

He wants an hour alone with her body, before the burial.

An hour with her body...

I approved of that.

After all, she was carrying his child,

that had never seen light.

I encouraged him to spend his last time with her.

This is our perfect chance to kill him.

In grief of Lady Onobu's untimely death...

Shogun letsuna, will hang himself to death.

Kimyo...

When my son, Tsunanori becomes shogun,

I shall have you serve him as his personal attendant.

I'm worried about what is going on at the castle.

Please go back inside.

We don't want Lord Kishu's spies to see you.

I wonder hovv Her Ladyship is doing now.

I want to be with her to give her my support.

Ocho has disappeared after that.

I wonder what she is doing.

Lady Akiko...

Aya...

Having been accused of killing his concubine...

What am I to do?

L\/ly lady...

The manager of the O'oku palanquins?

It turned out she was a man.

That must be the female impersonator, Kimyo.

Kimyo?

He uses magic.

Magic?

Ocho, is that who hurt you?

Yes...

Chief!

The service will be held at Zojo-ji Temple.

What do you want to do?

Ocho, I want to hear your thoughts.

Chief, the shogun's life might be in danger.

I could care less about the Tokugawa shogun,

who discarded the loyal lga ninja like rags!

I agree! I could care less about him, too.

True...

After all they turned us into rebels.

Isn't that right, Ocho?

That's true...

But, chief...

After being falsely charged, our comrades were either

killed, banished, or thrown into the depths of hell.

However, if there is someone going through what we had...

Sasuke, Ryuke, what would you do?

Her Ladyship and Lady Senshu-ni were crying...

Hayata, Kjiro, Dairoku...

What would you do?

Chief...

I'm going, too.

You can't, in that condition.

Chief...

Let's go!

It was the day of Lady Onobu's funeral service.

Shogun letsuna is a very kind person.

I just hope he doesn't kill himself in grief...

Shall I check on him?

No.

He wanted time alone with Lady Onobu.

We should leave him alone as he wishes.

Onobu...

Hovv could Akiko do this to you?

Out of jealousy towards you, who was carrying my child...

Hovv could she kill you?!

Onobu, I feel sorry for you.

I feel so sorry for you.

Let's go!

Who are you?

So you are here, Hanzo!

I won't let you kill him!

My body is iron...

My mind is empty...

Evil shall be destroyed.

Hanzo! Come at me!

Who are you?

Tarao Hanzo.

You're an lga ninja.

Lord Kishu, will not allow any assassinations...

I know nothing about it.

Didn't you order the female impersonator, Kimyo?

I know nothing about it.

I have never met him before.

I'll e>

If there is any truth to that...

I will shave my head and become a priest.

However, Hanzo...

Even if I become a priest...

I will make my son, Tsunanori, shogun!

DUE TO PERSONAL REASONS, WE WILL BE CLOSED FOR A WHILE

Ocho, recuperate in your hometown,

and when you are healed, be sure to come back.

Dairoku, take care of her. - Yes, I will.

Chief, we haven't cleared the lga ninja's name yet...

Don't rush.

We have a long road ahead of us.

Ocho, let's go.

Ocho, let's part with a smile.

Let's go, Ocho.

Thank you for waiting. - It's been a while, Han-sen.

Will you wash down my back?

Han-sen, where did you go?

Just out for a bit.

Did you go to Ocho's place?

Hovv did you know?

To the castle attendant's place?

You know about her, too?

I'm going to write this down.

Ocho, at the bar...

The castle attendant...

I'm taking this! - No!

Directed by: IVIAKIGUCHI Yuji

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