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Daizen!

We Yagyu have spread all over Japan.

No matter where you go...

there's no way that... you can escape... from us!

Kozure Ookami LONE WOLF AND CUB

Sanzu no Kawa no Ubaguruma (Perambulator of the River of Sanzu) BABY CART AT THE RIVER STYX

Starring:

Wakayama Tomisaburo as Ogami Itto

Directed by Misumi Kenji

Rooms are available. Please come in!

We have a vacancy. Please come in!

Welcome! We have baths ready for you to use.

Oh! How adorable!

Daigoro...

So, you are staying with us? Thank you. Thank you very much!

Do you have any other luggage?

I'll take this cart around to the back of the inn later.

Well, this way, please... I'll take you upstairs, sirs.

Welcome! This way, please.

You must be exhausted from your travels.

Well, why don't I wash your feet?

Omatsu!

Sir?

You fool! Be careful who you let into the inn!

How can we profit by letting a poor ronin with a kid stay here?

But, Sir... we still have a vacant room all the way inside.

I'm the one who decides if we have a vacancy or not!

Ours, you see, is a first-class inn...

where respectable samurai stay.

What if he doesn't pay...

and then takes out his sword or something?! Then what?!

I'm terribly sorry, sir, but...

Manager...

Manager... Yes, sir?

Will you watch this for me?

Oh, my goodness!

500 gold pieces.

Yes, sir!

Without fail, I shall guard this for you, sir!

Omatsu! What're you just standing there for?!

Yes, sir!

Wash the young master's honored feet!

How do you manage to be so useless?!

My, such a cute little boy!

Here, let me wipe your feet!

Thank you for your good service.

1...

2...

3...

5...

Daigoro...

You forgot one.

1...

2...

3...

Oh! 4!

3...

4...

5...

Can I get out now?

Greetings, I am Ozunu, leader of the Kurokuwa Group.

I am Sayaka of the Yagyu Clan in Akashi.

I've come with orders from Lord Retsudo of the Shadow Yagyu Clan in Edo...

If you'd please clear everyone from the room...

It is alright.

They're all Akashi Yagyu Clanswomen.

In that case...

What?!

Why that... Ogami Itto!

In the end, Ogami Itto won the fight.

The agreement was that the Edo Yagyu must thereafter leave him in peace.

That is why...

the Akashi Yagyu Clanswomen under your command...

must eliminate Ogami at all costs.

Such is the order of Lord Retsudo.

Eliminate him, we shall!

I must remind you to exercise extreme caution...

He is, after all, a former Official Shogunate Executioner.

And as he's the master of the Suiouryu Technique, he's a superb swordsman.

An easy opponent, he is not.

Ozunu! Do you belittle the abilities of the Akashi Yagyu Clanswomen?!

Absolutely not.

It is just that... He was able to slay Lord Bizen and the honorable Sentinel...

which means that, we Kurokuwa men must join you, in case...

"In case" what?

Are these your men?

Yes.

Bid your strongest man to enter.

Junai...

Try to get out to the garden.

Pardon?

Get out to the garden, I said.

For Shinobi such as we, that is but one leap.

Prove to me that you can do it!

You naive fools... You dare call yourselves Shinobi?!

Where is Ogami Itto at present?

My Lady...

By the day after tomorrow, he'll be inside Akashi territory.

When one wishes to hire Ogami Itto, the assassin called "Lone Wolf and Cub..."

one places amulets of evil at religious sanctuaries alongside major roadways.

When Itto sees these amulets...

he leaves road signs to let his whereabouts be known.

The same strategic signs that the great warrior Ota Dokan used?

By following the signs, one can meet Itto.

Chamberlain!

A sign!

Yes! That one symbolizes "headquarters."

Which means... we will meet him in there.

I am the Edo Chamberlain of the Awa Clan, Hirano Ichirobei.

I'm the assassin... "Lone Wolf and Cub."

I don't mean to doubt your word...

but can you provide proof that you are really the "Lone Wolf and Cub?"

This does not concern you.

But does it answer your question?

If you wouldn't mind...

My fee is 500 pieces of gold.

Here...

Please check it.

I require that...

you tell me every detail related to this matter.

The fief of the Awa Clan is valued at 257, 000 koku...

but in actual fact we're much more prosperous...

equivalent to a clan rated at 450, 000 koku.

It's all because of our production of Awa Indigo, a special dye...

of which we hold a monopoly...

It earns us 330, 000 gold pieces annually...

or about 200, 000 koku.

As such, we live in fear that...

our Clan's knowledge of the secret of the dye might leak out.

For this reason, we founded a Dye Office that oversees the trade.

But, the Shogunate... desperately trying to increase its economic power...

is obsessed with acquiring the secret of Awa Indigo.

They sent spies into our territory...

who schemed to incite a riot by encouraging our dye workers...

to demand higher wages and better treatment.

If a riot occurred, the Shogunate could use it as an excuse...

to strip us of our monopoly...

and then the monopoly would be in their hands...

where they alone could profit from it.

So... we spared no effort to hunt down their spies...

and we executed the conspirators who plotted the riot.

But... these extreme tactics backfired, and made Chuzaemon Makuya...

the headman of our Indigo farmers, fear for his life...

and flee to the neighboring Takamatsu Clan.

The Takamatsu Clan is a poor one...

and our Clans are not on good terms with each other.

In an effort to profit from all this, they've reported the matter to the Shogunate...

and hidden Makuya safely away.

Despite our repeated inquiries, they deny ever hearing of him.

And now, what we fear the most is about to happen...

We've been informed that the Shogunate has sent to Takamatsu...

the Hidari Brothers, the Official Escorts of the Shogunate...

in order to take Makuya back to Edo.

As you must be aware, these are the three brothers...

that even the Yagyu Clansmen are afraid of...

Hidari Benma, Tenma, and Kuruma.

The three are masters of Takeuchi- Style Harness Techniques...

Benma uses a Hand Armor-Claw...

Tenma uses a Flying Club...

And Kuruma uses a Mailed Fist.

They're infamous for their expertise.

They're often called the "Gods of Death..."

and they're known to have killed many.

If the Hidari Brothers do take Makuya back to Edo...

the secret of Awa Indigo would be in the hands of the Shogunate...

and a disaster will have befallen our Clan.

Please slay Makuya Chuzaemon...

and preserve the Awa Clan!

Please...

Please... I beg of you!

"Eiraku-maru, " the ship that's carrying the Hidari Brothers...

should be entering the Port of Akashi by noon the day after tomorrow.

I ask that you board this ship.

It will be leaving at six the following morning.

"A double somersault, standing in the middle."

"Now all at once, continuous tumbling."

Daigoro!

I'm Sayaka, a Yagyu! At your service!

Daigoro...

Let's go!

Pa...

I must...

I must kill Ogami Itto to restore the reputation of the Akashi Yagyu!

He's a superb swordsman, so skilled that he was the Shogunate Executioner.

It isn't possible to defeat him using ordinary methods.

Ozunu...

Are you saying that Ogami's Suiouryu Technique is superior to ours?

I am very sorry...

but all of your Clanswomen have been killed, and...

I have but two of my Kurokuwa comrades left.

That's why... if we can kidnap Itto's son, Daigoro...

We are of the famed Clan of Yagyu! How will it profit us to use such cowardly tactics?!

It's obvious that he intends to destroy the Yagyu...

in the hopes of restoring his House through his son.

Even someone like Ogami would lose hope and confidence...

if his son was gone.

"Kill Ogami Itto at any cost, using any means..."

That was Lord Retsudo's order.

Daigoro...

So, you've come, Ogami Itto.

Halt!

You Yagyu are despicable.

What do you plan on doing with him?

Our game is over.

Throw down the Doutanuki sword you wear upon your waist.

Come on, Ogami Itto!

I refuse.

This is a bottomless well.

If I let go, he'll die.

Kill him, if you must.

But I ask you, what for?

Have you Kurokuwa Clansmen become vassals of the Yagyu Clan?

Your wife was slain when you defied the Yagyu.

Look at you... now you wander around like a stray dog!

My son and I have chosen a life of evil. We're unlike normal people.

For this day...

we've long been prepared.

If this is where we lose everything that we hold dear...

if this is what fate has decreed for us, then we shall accept it!

Then, let me ask you...

Why did you come here, where your son's life hangs by a thread?

Isn't it because you want to save him, because of your love for him?

It is foolish to simply accept everything that happens.

One must try one's best... before one bows to fate.

Daigoro...

Your mother is waiting for you at the River of Sanzu.

Do you understand?

Pa...

Daigoro...

It was unbelievable! It clasped me so tightly!

That's why it's called the "Lair of the Octopus!"

Pa!

Attention please...

Those passengers who boarded the ship at Akashi, please pay your fare.

Brother!

They must be the pathetic hirelings sent by the Awa Clan!

As you've all witnessed...

we were forced to kill them...

because they attacked us first.

Rest assured that we'll report this to the authorities...

at the north harbor in Takamatsu. You need not worry.

Aye, sir!

Get rid of the bodies.

You may dump them overboard, if you wish.

Aye...

Aye, sir!

Do you have a child with you?

Those shitty Hidari brothers!

There's no way I can be on the same ship with such ruthless men!

Sir, let us stay inside your quarters!

Who knows what's gonna happen to us if we're near them?!

What if they get us involved?!

It makes me sick!

There's no way I'll let you bastards get to Takamatsu!

This is a major job, I got 200 gold pieces...

If I don't finish you guys off somehow, the second 100 will be up in smoke!

Just watch this...

I'm sorry to disturb you...

but would you please return my knife?

It's oil!

It's disguised as soy sauce...

which means...

this must be the Awa Clan's doing as well!

Good. They're drinking sake.

Whew! That was a close call!

I thought that I was finished back there!

But you just watch this!

You've got nowhere to run! Roasted chicken is what you'll be!

Fire!

Fire!

We're used to dealing with things like this, but...

you, on the other hand, are saddled with a child.

But, just in case you do get out of this alive...

let us say this to you.

We'll be entering Takamatsu...

to escort a man out.

Once we get to Hikita, we'll go through the sand dunes of Oura...

to get to the north harbor.

There, a ship should be waiting for us. On it, we'll return to Edo.

Stay out of our way, no matter what.

We escorts would never...

harm anyone, provided we're not attacked first.

Still...

if anybody interferes with us, then we show no mercy.

Do remember that.

Even if the meddler is a former Shogunate Executioner.

I hear there's an assassin called "Lone Wolf and Cub."

But, if such an assassin can't escape a fire, what good is he?

Daigoro!

Hang on, it won't be long!

You bastard!

Daigoro...

We don't have a fire.

If we don't warm ourselves, we'll freeze to death.

You want to... save me?

And to save us as well.

Three will be warmer than two.

Brother... Will the Awa Clansmen attack us?

All we can see are the sand dunes...

There's nobody... Not a sign of life anywhere.

They will come.

When we deliver Makuya Chuzaemon to Edo...

Awa Clan will lose 200, 000 koku of annual revenue.

They'll come, prepared to shed blood.

Keep your eyes open!

Kill Makuya!

Kill Chuzaemon!

So, you've come, after all.

It's remarkable that you escaped from the burning ship.

It's regrettable that you'll be throwing your life away...

after having just saved it.

Here I come.

Sw... Sword... Who would have thought that you'd throw it?!

Neck...

My neck...

sounds as if it is wailing.

The wound across the neck...

that wails like the cold wintry wind...

They call that sound the "Whistling of Wintry Wind."

Just once, did I wish to slay someone...

and hear that very sound.

How ironic it is... to hear it...

from my own neck...

Out!

I am the assassin...

"Lone Wolf and Cub."

At your service!

The End