All language subtitles for Lone Wolf and Cub Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973) EN

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A KATSU PRODUCTIONS FILM

LONE WOLF AND CUB

BABY CART IN THE LAND OF DEMONS

Produced by TOMISABURO WAKAYAMA
MASANORI SANADA

Screenplay by KAZUO KOIKE
TSUTOMU NAKAMURA

Based on the Manga by KAZUO KOIKE
GOSEKI KOJIMA

Cinematography by
FUJIO MORITA
Lighting by
HIROSHI MIMA

Sound by
TSUCHITARO HAYASHI Production
Design by
SHIGENORI SHIMOISHIZAKA

Music by
HIDEAKI SAKURAI
Edited by
TOSHIO TANIGUCHI

Starring

TOMISABURO WAKAYAMA

MICHIYO YASUDA
AKIHIRO TOMIKAWA

SHINGO YAMASHIRO
TOMOMI SATO
AKIRA YAMAUCHI

HIDEJI OTAKI
FUJIO SUGA
TAKETOSHI NAITO

EIJI OKADA

MINORU OKI

Directed by
KENJI MISUMI

I'm sorry to bother you.

But that drawing of the Ox-Head
and Stallion-Head demons...

Are you searching for Lone Wolf and Cub?

Are you...

So they call me.

Impressive, Lone Wolf and Cub -

former Shogunate Executioner,
Master Itto Ogami.

Here is 100 ryo.

I know it is 500 ryo for each victim

when you accept an assassination request.

Here is one-fifth.

Please accept it.

Was this a test of my assassin skills?

On a mission to locate you,

16 of the best swordsmen from my domain,

with their hats carrying this drawing
of the demons Ox-Head and Stallion-Head,

have left their home

and scattered themselves
along the five highways and the waterways.

I serve the Kuroda clan
in Chikuzen Province.

My name is Ukon Ayabe.

I accept an assassination request

only after I've heard
all the secrets and reasons.

We know.

Five of us, including myself,

will test your sword and skills.

Then, afterwards,

each of us will offer you 100 ryo

and the secrets and reasons.

This will be your sign.

Please.

I am with Ukon Ayabe.

I'm the Kuroda clan secretariat head,
Kazuma Izumi.

I'm Itto Ogami.

I notified the next man
to request the assassination.

Please.

I am Kuroda vassal Shusuke Mogami.

Inexperienced and presumptuous as I am,
I shall test your skill.

I'm Itto Ogami.

Should you defeat me,

please collect that 100 ryo

and please put on the prayer beads
and move on.

Very well.

The Kuroda clan has a secret.

Its domain lord,
with a tribute of 520,000,

is, in truth, a five-year-old princess.

Even though she is a princess,

she has been falsely reported
as a prince to the Shogunate.

As for the First Audience with the Shogun,

because “he” is still young,

it will be after Prince Matsumaru
has reached adulthood.

Our previous domain lord, Naritaka Kuroda,

has already retired.

If the Shogunate learns of this,

the Kuroda clan will be abolished.

Please.

I ask you to save the clan in its crisis.

The princess -

The princess must be...

Are you the third man?

I am Kuroda vassal Hachiro Mawatari.

I have the 100 ryo in my clothes.

Take it.

Very well.

There's still time
before my life runs out.

I'll tell you the secrets and reasons
behind the assassination request -

as much as I can until my last breath.

Lord Naritaka fell madly in love
with his mistress O-Tae-no-Kata.

Their child is a daughter
by the name of Hamachiyo.

He has Princess Hamachiyo call herself
Prince Matsumaru, as if she were a boy.

But he does have a real son
by his official wife.

The real Prince Matsumaru is treated
differently, though he, too, is his child.

He is held prisoner
secretly in the castle.

Lord Naritaka recently made

a letter in his own handwriting

declaring all this
to be the unassailable truth.

He entrusted this letter to Abbot Jikei.

Lord Naritaka did this for safekeeping.

Abbot Jikei is well respected.

He is Chief Priest at Sofuku-ji Temple

where the past Kuroda lords are buried.

Lord Naritaka reveres him.

The people worship him as a living Buddha.

Even the Shogunate thinks highly of him.

He is a priest of the highest rank.

Yet our lord's letter is about
to fall into the hands of the Shogunate.

It is a matter of life and death
for our Kuroda clan.

I beseech you.

Please recover the letter.

The letter!

Wait a second.

There's a dangerous ronin at a pond ahead.

It appears he's planning to ambush
a man pushing a baby cart.

If he's waiting for you,
I'd like to be of assistance to you.

Please don't bother.

I am Kuroda vassal Yamon Kikuchi.

I've heard about you.

The former Shogunate Executioner,
Itto Ogami,

a master Suio-ryu swordsman.

Will you grant me a favor and show me
the secret sword skill Wave-Slicer?

I'd like to watch it closely
with my own eyes.

The letter is in the hands of Abbot Jikei.

Abbot Jikei has left his temple

to visit Zuisen-ji Temple in Kamakura

for the ceremony to celebrate
its restoration.

After he departed, however,

a monk at the Sofuku-ji Temple
became suspicious.

The fact is, Abbot Jikei had previously
informed the Kamakura temple

he would not be attending the ceremony.

As soon as he was
entrusted with the letter,

he retracted his words
and departed in a hurry.

Our monk decided he had
to confirm his suspicion.

With the steely resolve
to commit hara-kiri if proven wrong,

he checked if the letter was there.

Our Elder Wakita led an investigation,

and we risked our lives until we found out

the truth about Abbot Jikei.

He appears to be the ringleader
of a ninja network

that has taken root
in the entire Western Sea Region.

And that's not the worst of it.

He's of the Yagyu clan.

He will probably take the letter

to Retsudo Yagyu.

I thought I asked you not to bother.

I'm in no hurry, and I was a bit worried.

I'm Kanbei “the Pebble” Sazare.

That ronin was after your life,
as I figured, wasn't he?

I've been watching you.

Aren't you a master swordsman?

You must be tired. Would you care for tea?

50 GOLD COINS

it's hot.

This is my invention.

A narrow bamboo wall inside a thicker one,
with wet clay in between.

This keeps the tea hot
for whenever I want some.

This saves me from bad water.

Go ahead.

Awfully hot, isn't it?

I appreciate it.

How about it, Master Itto Ogami?

You did drop your guard.

The tea contains a deadly poison
made of yellow azalea and aconite.

There's no way to save you.

We intended to test you
with every possible method.

Forgive me.

I am Kuroda vassal Kanbei Sazare.

I shall finish you.

Kill Abbot Jikei and recover the letter.

The letter is in the sutra tube
Abbot Jikei holds in his hands.

The sutra tube is for carrying
a sutra scroll inside.

No one but Abbot Jikei can even touch it.

Master Ogami, I implore you.

Our Elder Shogen Wakita
and all the Kuroda vassals -

We all have laid down our lives
for our clan.

Please. I beseech you...

FESTIVAL

MAGIC PEEP SHOW

- If you wanna meet dad that bad
- Yeah?

- Look at what I got
- Hey there.

- An unmatched and very rare sword
- So what?

- Use this as a proof
- Come on!

- Has the God granted the wish?
- Yeah?

- From a mountain far, far away
- What?

Dressed in a black robe
- What happened?

- With flower sash in the right hand
- Listen.

- On the way to a potter's field
- What?

About to cross the Phantom Bridge

Come one, come all

Your heart will cry out for this girl.

Cursed with the sins of her parents,
born was this girl.

Come one, come all.

Hana-chan, are you there?

I'm here.

Hana-chan is singing a song now.

Pay on your way out.

Eight bun for villagers,
nine mon for kids.

I got rice fish.

Goldfish, too.

And turtles.

I got watermelons.

So sweet! Buy one, buy all.

Look at this color.

I have come for your life.

You cannot kill that which is naught.

I have brought subjective and objective
together into one.

I have forgotten myself
and merged with nothingness.

I am but a piece of totality
of inside and outside.

Thus you cannot kill my body.

When you meet Buddha, you'll kill Buddha.

When you meet parents, you'll kill them.

It's all for nothing, however.
You only have the way of the assassin.

When you are able to kill me,

you'll have achieved the gateless barrier
on the way of the assassin.

Come one, come all. Buy one, buy all.

Buy this!

Oops, watch it.

- Ouch.
- I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

Sorry about that.

Here you go.

I hope you didn't get hurt.

What a haul! Let's relax a little now.

Are you serious?
We didn't come this far to make so little.

So true.
You sure are Quick-Change, boss lady.

Give me the cover, Mole.

Now I get it.

You're the famous Edo cop,
Senzo “the True Heart” Shin-no-Ji.

I've heard about you.

I'm honored.

I was on my way to pay you my respects.

I see.

You're here from Edo after the notorious
pickpocket Quick-Change O-Yo

and her pal Tomekichi the Mole.

Yes, I think you've received a notice.

Indeed.

She's aiming to rake in a lot of money
during the summer festival here.

As the name Quick-Change implies,

she can be a pretty town girl,
a songstress, a nun or a beggar.

Nobody's ever found out who she really is.

Excuse me.

Ouch!

I'm sorry.

Pardon me.

It's my fault.

That woman...

Pickpocket!

Pickpocket!

Damn! This is bad.

That's Senzo the True Heart.

Little boy, be a good boy
and keep this for me.

Don't tell anyone. Promise?

That's my wallet.

Damn brat!

Hold on.

Listen, young man.

The lady who gave you this wallet,
tell me what she looked like.

That's a good boy.

Come on, tell me where she went.

Then I'll buy you a candy or a whistle
or anything you want.

We show a truncheon and offer a candy,
and most kids would do as we say.

But this kid...

Somethings wrong.

Maybe he's O-Yo's kin.

Tie this kid up.

Senzo, he's a child of tender years.

Don't tie him up.

Sure. But then again,

she could be using this child as her drop.

I've tracked O-Yo all the way from Edo.

I can't save face
unless I arrest her today.

Please leave everything to my judgment.

Damn kid!

Look at that. Such a little kid.

- Poor thing.
- What did he do?

- That's horrible.
- So true.

Maybe it's some mistake.

So wrong to put a rope on a kid.

You won't accomplish anything
by arresting a child.

You have to catch a pickpocket red-handed.

I can arrest her
if she comes forward and confesses.

That's why I'm going to have him flogged.

What?

I wish I didn't have to.

But if I don't, evil triumphs
and more people will suffer.

I must catch O-Yo, no matter what.

I'm so sorry.

I caught this child

as he was forced into acting as the drop
for the pickpocket Quick-Change O-Yo.

We won't go easy
just because it's a child.

Thus, according to Article 79,

he will be flogged.

That's cruel. Poor kid.

However,

if O-Yo gives herself up,
this child will be released.

What a dirty trick! The kid is bait?
Act like an officer!

Silence!

O-Yo, why don't you come forward?

I believe in your true heart.

O-Yo.

Surely you are among these people.

If you don't want this kid flogged,
show yourself.

I believe we come into this world
squeaky clean.

None of us is bad at heart.

So I don't hate the criminals.
I hate their crimes.

Hear me, O-Yo?

If you don't come forward
to save this kid, I'll hate you.

I'll hate you for the first time.

And I'll pursue you
to the ends of the earth.

This kid isn't even scared.

He isn't even pale. How...

Poor thing.

That kid is terrifyingly courageous.

Do it.

Please do it.

Boss lady!

Please wait.

I am Quick-Change O-Yo.

Please spare him.

Good of you to speak up, O-Yo.

Since you confessed,
the law will show you mercy.

That boy has nothing to do with this.

I don't even know him.

I did ask him to keep
the wallet that I stole.

Listen, son.

You were holding the wallet
for that lady over there, right?

No.

What?

No.

Little boy, why?

No.

Son, you lie and you'll be flogged.

That's the lady, wasn't it?

No.

Little boy.

It's all right now.
Tell them I asked you to keep it.

No.

Why do you protect me?

Say it was me.

No.

Are you really Quick-Change O-Yo?

Yes, there is no mistake.

It makes no sense.

I don't think this child can be lying now.

You see?

I am Quick-Change O-Yo.

What an incredible skill.

There are many female pickpockets
other than O-Yo.

Maybe something else is going on here.

I'm going to get a confession.

Sir!

Son, I'll ask you just once more.

- No.
- Why, little boy?

No, sir!

I am Quick-Change O-Yo.

Shut up.

Little boy, please, say it was me.

Please stop, for me.

Why do you do this?

Why do you protect me?

No.

Little boy.

O-Yo.

What did you say
when you handed him the wallet?

I can't help thinking
he's being loyal to his duty.

I only said to keep it for me.

I also said, “Don't tell anyone. Promise?”

He promised not to tell anyone.

He must be desperately trying
to keep his promise and not betray you.

Otherwise, it doesn't make sense.

O-Yo.

Now I, too, believe
you are Quick-Change O-Yo.

Come to think of it,
his parent hasn't come forward either.

Is he a drifter's child?

Or is there some story behind this?

Little boy, I promise
I'll never steal again.

Thank you.

Son, it's over now.

Go on.

Papa.

Geese, geese, fly away

Big goose, go first

Little goose, at the end

All together, all friends, all fly away

I'm Shiranui “Ghost Fire,” attendant
to Prince Matsumaru at the Kuroda Domain.

I have met all the five Kuroda vassals
requesting my assassination service.

I know.

Then you should have no business.

Why do you challenge me?

Tell me why you go to such lengths.

After you take Abbot Jikei's life
and retrieve the letter,

please go straight to Kuroda Castle

and hand the letter
personally to Lord Kuroda.

Will you accept my request?

I refuse.

My only job is to complete
an assassination.

I see no reason
to stay involved afterwards.

Here is 500 ryo.

Besides Abbot Jikei,
there are others to be killed.

Let me hear the other secrets
behind the secrets and reasons.

I want you to kill...

a five-year-old child...

and his father and his mother.

You're the father of a motherless son.

Master Ogami,

may I to ask you to kill
a child and his parents?

My son and I together have chosen
the path of carnage.

We're resolved to descend to Hell
through the Six Realms and Four Lives.

We live the Demon Way in Hell.

To us, the three of them,

they are our sovereign lords.

From here on,
we the Ura-Yagyu will protect you.

Lord Retsudo will greet you
on the opposite shore.

Daigoro.

We're entering the Demon Way in Hell.

Is it not good, he who perfects his path?

Is it not good, the gateless barrier?

- We're sinking!
- Help!

-It's sinking.
- Over there!

Get to the abbot's boat.

Papa.

Damn Itto Ogami.

Get him!

Leave it to us, Master Ogami. Go!

Kuroda's Masked Men.

Master Ogami.

I'll get the letter.

Please hurry to Kuroda with haste.

I will get the letter back.

Take this to Lord Retsudo.

- You may stay back.
- Yes, sir.

Damn Itto Ogami.

He has the Kuroda letter.

We're Lord Yagyu's men.

Passing through.

Defying us, the Yagyu clan,

Itto Ogami has sided with the Kuroda clan.

I can't let him live.

We'll pursue him to the ends of the earth.

It is Shiranui.

I followed the Kurokuwa men
to Retsudo's inn.

Master Ogami.

I witnessed the results
of your splendid work.

I have yet another favor to ask of you.

Will you grant my wish
without asking me the reason?

This is my own idea,

but I believe Elder Wakita would approve

for the future of the clan.

Master Ogami, please.

Say it.

Please take out the letter you have there.

Please open it.

Master Ogami,

please take it as is to Kuroda.

A word to Master Itto Ogami,
former Shogunate Executioner.

Your work at the river earlier

truly impressed us, the Kuroda Masked Men.

You have taken the letter
from Abbot Jikei.

We've come to ask you to hand it over.

I refuse.

What?

I have heard

the Kuroda Domain has peerless lancers
feared throughout the Western Region

known as the Kuroda Masked Men.

They consider it shameful to show
their unsightly faces of death,

so they always wear masks
before they enter a battle.

Such is the Kuroda way of the samurai.

Now a word for the Kuroda Masked Men.

As for this letter,

so moved was I by the young Kuroda vassals
who gave their lives for it,

I intend to head for the Kuroda Domain
in Chikuzen

and personally deliver it
to the domain lord, Prince Matsumaru.

Very well.

We will escort you,
Master Ogami, to Kuroda.

Leave this to us, Master Ogami.
Hurry to Kuroda.

Damn you, Itto.

Are you entering the Kuroda territory?

Assassin Lone Wolf and Cub, Itto Ogami.

This is my son Daigoro.

I have just arrived with the item
requested by this clan.

Please accept it.

Master Ogami,

isn't it rude to set your sword
ready to strike?

Pardon.

Here I have a Dotanuki,
a battlefield sword.

I have sealed it
with a knot of my own hair.

I assumed your men had observed this
and granted me passage.

You claim you are following the etiquette
of a military embassy on a battlefield?

Exactly.

Then I must ask,

why do you refuse to hand the letter
to Sozaemon Tsukude, our Masked Man?

Because I wish to hand it
personally to your domain lord.

Where is Prince Matsumaru,
the lord of Kuroda Domain?

How dare you speak that way
in the prince's presence?

That is Princess Hamachiyo.

Silence!

Master Ogami, why do you have death
in the air around you?

The Kuroda family founder
was of the bloodline of Emperor Uda.

You are direct descendants
of Genji in Omi.

Your ancestor Josui conquered
the Western Region and brought peace.

Kanbei was renowned nationwide
as a great warrior.

The people talk of, praise and fear

the great Kurodas in the Western Region.

Such an esteemed family of warriors.

You honor the way of the warrior,
do not scheme and value the family name.

Such is the Lord of Kuroda.

Blinded with love for your mistress
O-Tae-no-Kata over there,

you pretended
that your daughter was your son.

You claim she is Prince Matsumaru,

while the real Prince Matsumaru,
the child delivered by your official wife,

despite being your own child,
has been imprisoned.

What injustice.

What say you?

Silence, Itto Ogami.

Dare to move an inch

and we the Masked Men will kill you.

I'm Naritaka,
the former lord of this domain.

I am Matsumaru's father.

I shall take the letter.

Show me.

Very well.

PRIVATE

What the -

Kill him.

Kill him!

Please take our lord to the mausoleum.

I'm Kazuma Izumi, the secretariat head.

Here I come.

Show me a samurai's mercy.

Don't take off my mask.

We fought to the death for our clan.

We only wish for the welfare of the clan
for generations to come.

Please, do whatever you must do.

I can ask this only because it is you.

Please give me the finishing blow.

I Will.

My lord!

No! I don't care. I won't commit seppuku.

My lord, please perform seppuku.

Please, I beg you.

Go away, Shogen! Go away!

My lord.

For the sake of the Kuroda clan. Please.

You're disloyal, Wakita!

- My lord!
- Wakita!

Please.

Kill him.

My lord, please commit seppuku.

Lawless rascal! Kill him!

Please commit seppuku.

- Kill him!
- My lord!

- Kill!
- My lord.

- Kill him!
- Please commit seppuku.

Kill him!

Impressive was the Lord of Kuroda,
a fine lord of ours.

Splendidly he committed seppuku
and passed.

Behold, worthy ancestors.

This family and its authority
shall flourish throughout the nation.

Mistress Shiranui.

You have committed hara-kiri, haven't you?

Master Ogami,

I am following my late lord.

I will accompany him to the nether world.

THE END