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A&AM Presents

Goyokin

A Hideo Gosha Movie

TOHO presents

A FUJI TELEVISION & TOKYO EIGA production

The Tokugawa shogunate governed Japan

between the 17 th and the end of the 19th century.

Its economy was based on Sado Isle's goldmines.

It was the shogun's gold.

Through the years,

the mines gave from 60 to 90 tons of metal.

Refined and transformed into bars

the gold was carried aboard the shogun's vessels

with 800 bars per trip.

The ships took the west road via Shimonoseki.

Navigating was dangerous

especially between Sado's isles and Noto's peninsula,

where the sea was hostile and sowed with reefs.

Inhabited by water demons,

those seas were called "the cemetery of ships".

GOYOKIN, THE GOLD OF THE SHOGUN

Executive Producers: FUJIMOTO Sanezumi, FUKUDA Hideo

SHIINO Hideyuki, SATO Masayuki

Scenario: TAZAKA Kei & GOSHA Hideo

Photography: OKAZAKI Kozo

Decors: KO JIMA Motoji

Music: SATO Masaru

with

NAKADAI Tatsuya

TANBA Tetsuro

ASAOKA Ruriko, TSUKASA Yoko,

TANAKA Kunie, KAYAKI Isao

NISHIMURA Akira

TONO Eijiro, HIURA Tsutomu

KUROBE Susumu, IGAWA Hisashi

TSUNEDA Fujio, OGATA Shinnosuke

ASAWAKA Yoshitaro, TANAKA Hiroshi

SUZUKI Haruo, YAMAGUCHI Hiroyoshi

MIYAZAWA Hajime, TANAKA Shiko

Narration: OZAWA Eitaro

NAKAMURA Kinnosuke

Realisation: GOSHA Hideo

What a nice wedding procession!

Who might they be?

Me too, soon...

1831, ECHIZEN PROVINCE TERRITORY OF THE SABAI

Takichi dear!

Where are you?

Okumi!

Yaichi!

Father!

Father!

No one's here?

Father!

They disappeared!

Taken by the gods!

One night in October 1831,

a village of fishermen in the stronghold of the Sabai

totally disappeared.

No trace of the thirty inhabitants was ever found.

People said they were "taken by the gods".

The mystery was unsolved.

THREE YEARS LATER IN 1834

EDO (Tokyo)

Come, Come!

It's time for the fencing show.

Now, we can start.

Wait a bit.

Keep calm.

It's an exceptional blade.

But some business first.

Take a look at this miraculous ointment.

It's the real one, not some fake.

A secret formula...

Stop.

You'll sell later. Where is the fighter?

- Wait a moment! - Go!

Attention!

The weapon master!

- We attack? - Wait.

Wait!

Continue.

Don't stop.

I want to compare my art against yours.

Fleeing?

It's not him!

Insolent!

Thanks.

You look rich.

Have you found a trail?

Let me have a part too.

I am Fujimaki Samon.

I love money above all.

Where is Wakisaka Magobei?

Wakisaka Magobei?

Are you in a hurry?

You know Magobei?

He paid my drinks once or twice.

I invited myself at his table.

Why do you want to kill him? Explain.

Mind your own business!

Where is Magobei? Talk, or else...

No chance. He left the circus.

I'm replacing him.

Look at this.

An Echizen sword, of the utmost quality.

You really want to sell it?

Such a beautiful sword, and such great art.

Except your respect,

that is all you've got.

I don't want it anymore.

What will you do without a sword?

A samurai doesn't become a farmer.

Selling your sword is to quit your vocation, right?

What honor is there to be a samurai?

Master!

It isn't nothing!

You made up your mind?

I'll take it to the nail. Wait for me. Don't drink too much.

Wait!

Don't follow me!

Are you looking for me?

Wakisaka Magobei. Die without asking question.

You know my name?

You leave me no choice.

Takeuchi!

Why do you want to kill me?

It's been three years I quitted the Sabai clan.

What do they want from me?

Talk!

I don't understand.

Answer or I kill you.

Wait!

It's the chamberlain...

The chamberlain?

Tatewaki?

What does he want?

Talk!

The fishermen...

He's going to start again.

But before doing so,

he ordered me to eliminate you.

He's going to do the "taken by the gods" act?

Wait!

Wait, Kunai!

Why kill those fishermen?

They're innocents.

Innocents?

They stole gold from one of the Shogun's ship that drowned yesterday.

They deserved it.

What?

They gave us all the gold they retrieved.

We hid the gold in the chests of a wedding procession.

It is far by now.

Kunai Koriki!

Complain to the chamberlain!

I have my orders from chamberlain Rokugo Tatewaki.

Rokugo Tatewaki?

These are his orders?

Bravo!

You're now an accomplice.

23 chests of 20 gold bars each hidden by fishermen.

The rest drowned.

A wedding, good idea!

For safety, we used this wedding kimono

we found in the village.

Take out the bride!

Kill them all!

Assassins!

Tatewaki! I want to talk to you!

I obliged the fishermen

to give the gold they saved to our clan.

And you, Tatewaki,

you promised me to give them a reward.

In fact, you wanted to kill them from the start, right?

The clan's finances are disastrous.

I need this gold!

The harvest are catastrophic,

I don't want to raise the taxes.

I don't even want to pay the annual tribute to the shogunate.

The debts, the farmer's revolts...

The shogunate is waiting only for this to crush us.

This gold will give us some respite.

Magobei, try to understand!

I understand your situation.

But you're wrong!

Our jobs as vassal is to maintain the prestige of the Sabai.

Am I wrong?

Am I wrong to be loyal?

You're wrong!

He is wrong to think

the presence of the Sabai justifies such cruelty.

Is this the price ofloyalty?

No!

He's wrong!

I quit the clan.

Magobei.

Those fishermen, I had to kill them.

If gold wasn't vital for us, I would've acted otherwise.

Imagined if they've exposed everything.

Our clan would've been lost.

I sacrificed some weaklings

for our clan and its 600 vassals to survive.

It was the way of the samurais.

I had enough of these ways.

Lfl stay in the clan,

I'll have to battle you one day.

You, the brother of my wife and my friend.

I leave the clan.

It's the only solution.

I quit everything and I leave.

But before I do, give me a favor.

Swear to me to never do it again.

Think it over.

Why kill each other?

Promise me to say nothing, whatever the case

and I'll go quietly.

Where are you going?

Home.

What?

At the Sabai.

To do what?

For 20 or 30 fishermen?

Close your eyes one more time and everything will be fine.

The shogunate won't know anything.

I closed my eyes three years earlier.

I was wrong.

CASTLE OF THE SABAI

I tried everything to recover our finances.

Concentrate our efforts on the development of rice plantations.

We'll dig plantations along the coastline.

The exhumed sand will serve as compost for the new fields.

The output will be at least 10000 bushels of rice.

My Lord!

The confiscated lands of the shogunate represents 10000 bushels.

- Here is the source of our problems. - Measure your words.

It's nothing. Continue.

If we continue indebting ourselves, We'll be running to our death.

We have no choice.

The clearing costs a fortune!

How are you going to finance it?

Tatewaki.

What is your project?

For the financing,

let me worry about it.

Lady Shino.

You're a worker.

For who do you weave?

For Magobei, your husband? You'll never give up?

Our lord has accepted our clearing project.

We need to find some funds, whatever it takes.

- Who's here? - Vassal Koriki.

A letter from Edo.

What is it?

Wakiza Magobei is coming back.

Magobei?

He's gone several days ago.

He must already be at the Nakasendo.

It seems you wanted Magobei killed.

Is that true?

Yes.

Kunai...

Why have you acted without my permission?

I know Magobei very well.

He'll never betray us, whatever the case.

Magobei is like that.

I'm sorry.

But...

I don't have the same trust as you on men.

Three years ago,

You promised Magobei to never do it again.

If we succeed in stealing the gold one more time,

the shogunate will double its vigilance.

What's more, if

Magobei knows that we're doing it again...

I never told you anything

and I took the responsibility of eliminating Magobei.

Thanks to you,

I have an honorable rank, me who was nothing.

For you, chamberlain,

and for the 600 vassals of clan Sabai,

I am ready to have my hands bloodied.

Ready?

Anything goes!

4 and 6, even!

I won again. Sorry guys!

You have one of these lucks! How do you do it?

It's only luck.

So?

Care for one more?

What does it mean?

You think I'm cheating?

Who do you take me for?

Those numbers,

only God knows them!

I'm the best of all Japan.

I want apologies!

Fast!

Bastards!

We apologized!

We refunded you.

Let us go.

- Please! - Sore losers!

Look at those twerps!

You dogs! It's normal to cheat at the dices.

Suckers!

Shut up, dirty bitch!

We're going to pay ourselves, all right guys?

Wait!

Try me!

I am Ohira,

"taken by the Gods"!

Taken by the Gods?

What is that?

Listen up. One howly night,

Spirits with crow heads

took everyone from my village.

But they didn't touched me.

What do you think?

She's completely crazy.

Hey guys.

Let's show her we're not crows.

Who're you?

- Leave. - Thanks!

Little bitch!

Pervert!

What is it, brother?

Shino...

I'm picking some flowers

In the moonlight

I look at the starry sky

Shino.

Magobei is coming back.

Back home?

I have to kill Magobei.

So, it's for this passage rival bands are killing each other?

Who'd want a place like this?

A real mess!

The villagers have fled. It's now deserted.

Perfect.

If Magobei took the road to Nakasendo,

he has to pass through this passage.

Let's wait for him here.

He can't escape us.

A squad will be enough.

Someone's coming.

A woman.

Let her through.

Hey, beauty!

You all right?

Hang on to me.

This village is deserted. Why?

Because of the rival bands that kill each other for this passage,

everyone's fled.

Come have fun.

Mister samurai.

Thank you for the other day.

My friend wants to see you.

She wants to thank you.

Mister!

Where are you taking me?

Wait!

I said she's waiting.

Come, please.

Come, or she'll punish me.

It's here.

I'm done for.

Those jerks caught me cheating.

It's the end of Oriha,

"taken by the gods".

Because you drink too much.

You're shaking.

Get out, ifl disgust you.

Don't follow me like a dog.

- Ohira! - Shut up!

Rokuzo!

Leave us. Go down.

Go down I said!

Lfyou don't obey me...

Okay, I'm going down.

I understood.

Close the door!

Mister...

Drink in peace.

You'll stay with me today?

I want to thank you.

My body is yours.

Entirely.

You're Oriha, taken by the gods?

Where do you come from?

From the land of the Sabai, the coastal village ofKurosaki.

Three years ago,

where were you?

Three years ago?

At this time,

I was another person.

I was just finishing my training with a weaver

and got back home to Kurosaki.

I was to be married with Takichi.

I worked hard for five years

because I wanted a wedding kimono.

I was saving on the food.

I was sending money to my father.

After five years, I finally had my kimono!

Not some kind ofkid kimono,

but a superb wedding kimono!

I was in such a hurry to show it

to my father and fiancee,

that I sent it back before returning home.

But my kimono vanished!

Takichi too, my father also...

The village was empty!

I lost the will to live on.

Now look what I have become.

Not so fast!

You know something.

True?

How come?

Tell me what you know.

Where are they?

Where have the villagers gone?

Do you know?

Tell me quickly!

We meet again!

You know each other?

That's what I thought...

You asked me to interrogate him on the fishermen!

Do it yourself!

You are making me crazy!

Tell me what you know!

Stop!

Let go of me!

Leave me!

I was counting on her to make you talk.

- Let me go! - No!

- Calm yourself! - Stop touching me.

Don't get moody.

Let's drink.

What are you looking for?

Lfl give the wrong answer, will you kill me?

Am I right?

Looks like you know something.

Don't act innocent. Get me up to date.

What are you talking about?

You know very well.

The Sabai wants to kill you.

I'm certain that you've belonged to their clan.

Three years go, in the land of the Sabai,

under the reign

ofl don't know which Matsudaira chief,

a village of fishermen disappeared. "Taken by the gods", it seems.

It was at the same time that you left the Sabai.

That's not all.

At that same time, a shogun's vessel full of gold

drowned near the Sabai's territory. Isn't that amazing?

In my opinion,

there's something between these three events.

Suppose...

The Sabai robs the Shogun's gold,

and kills all the fishermen to keep them from talking.

It makes sense.

Let's find some evidence.

We'll blackmail the Sabai.

We'll be rich!

You thought about it, no?

Put me in.

Magobei!

You're wrong.

Samon!

Oriha!

We're going to have fun.

Let's see ifyou can kill me!

We'll make you sweat!

Oriha!

You're next.

Mister!

Leave this place!

Shino!

You're after the wrong person.

Wait!

Who are you?

As you see,

my nose guides me where there is money.

Hire me as a killer.

I prayed everyday

for your return.

I was sure you'd be back.

Each time I weaved a dress,

I told myselfyou'd be back

when it would be done.

Like a child,

I waited three years for you.

Shino.

You're thinner.

You too.

You know...

Don't say anything.

Shut up.

For God's sake,

don't go back to the Sabai.

Lfyou go back...

I left the Sabai to be with you.

We'll have enough to live on

for some time.

This money is a gift from Tatewaki, your brother?

I see.

He sent you with this money

so we'd go elsewhere?

- Honey... - No way!

I have to return to the Sabai.

The Sabai will kill you!

I know.

Honey...

Take me far away.

I'll weave, I'll sow...

I'll do everything to not be a burden to you.

Keep me on your sides.

The girl I helped earlier, you saw her?

Three years ago,

her fiancee got murdered.

Her life was destroyed.

His brother, Tatewaki,

is on the verge of doing it again.

Wait!

Listen to me!

My brother is in a delicate situation.

You know the Samurai's duty.

That's why you left the clan three years ago.

Close your eyes another time.

My brother doesn't want to kill you.

He's letting us go.

His last act of friendship.

He doesn't want to kill me?

But I'm already dead.

Ever since I closed my eyes on that slaughter.

By letting them,

I lost my dignity.

I forgot that I owed my duty as a samurai

to all those helpless people.

This I understood

by living the dirty streets ofEdo

these last three years.

What good is a sword without honor?

I let myself drift away.

I was ready to sell my sword.

That's when I learned that Tatewaki will start again.

My anger towards Tatewaki

guided me on the right way.

I have a duty to finish.

It concerns only me.

I'll find my honor back.

That's why

I've decided to return to the Sabai.

To rescue those innocent fishermen.

And,

for me too, to live again.

Try to understand.

My love!

Sabai Castle

We were waiting for you.

For the peace of our clan, die!

Not so fast, Kunai!

I want to see Tatewaki. I have to talk to him.

Out of question!

Bastard!

Traitor!

Wait!

Listen up.

Try to understand me.

I'm going to kill you, Magobei.

Wait!

It's a trick.

He's going to kill us one after the other.

Then what?

Don't worry,

he can't flee.

We have time on our hands.

We have to help our rescuer.

Yes, but how?

Are you mocking me?

Harukoma's band controls the passage of the village.

What?

Relax!

I'm telling you it's true!

Shoten's band is in the village!

Magobei!

Get out of there!

Out, Magobei!

I'll kill him in a duel, ifyou want.

All right. Show us your skills.

Get away!

Leave him Magobei.

Do you hear?

Magobei, show yourself!

It's time. Get out!

What is it?

Get off!

Magobei!

I'm sorry.

A brawl between bandits annoyed us.

Magobei escaped us.

Your sister is returning this to you. She says she doesn't need it anymore.

I saw her on the passage and took her back to the castle.

She doesn't need it anymore?

Kunai.

Any news from Sado?

A vessel loaded with a ton of gold,

30 chests with 30 bars each,

has sailed and should be in coastal view tomorrow night.

Tomorrow night?

And the next vessel?

According to the mine chief,

there won't be any before next autumn.

Good.

Let's go.

I never met a chamberlain.

Your swords.

Enter!

Leave us.

But...

Leave us!

Some tea?

It's not poisoned.

Errant Samurai from my father's time,

I do not know good manners.

Since your father's time?

I envy you.

But I have a nose for money!

So its smell brought you here?

- You're a funny man. - Oh yeah.

But my nose betrayed me. The Sabai are cheap.

They don't pay much.

Bad luck!

I'm sorry.

What would you think

of a well paid work?

Thank you! You're a true chamberlain!

Give me a big mission.

All right.

Tomorrow night, you'll light a big fire on a headland.

It's made ofherbs, it heals very well.

My father taught me that.

When I scratched myself,

he always put me some.

Oriha.

Looks like you're not the same.

That's normal.

When I was without hope,

I returned here, alone,

thinking that my father, my fiancee, and all the villagers

would maybe reappear.

When I left to be an apprentice,

the villagers escorted me to the headland.

I was 13 years old.

It was the last time I saw them.

Oriha...

I am...

You were here?

I was sure that you'd be with her.

Chamberlain!

So?

You were right.

Go, Kunai!

I was asked to light a huge fire at the Samegafuchi village.

To do what?

It means that tonight, a shogun's vessel will pass over there.

This is Samegafuchi.

There is the sea.

Capes on each side like arms.

In the middle,

Samegafuchi Bay, a sea full of reefs.

The greatest cape is called "Man",

the other is called "Woman".

At the bay's entrance, a huge rock.

On "Man",

a fire burns to guide the vessels

taking the western route.

The Shogun's vessel

will pass near the lit cape like that

to avoid the rock.

But how will Tatewaki proceed

to attack the vessel?

5 or 6 fishing boats won't suffice!

But if we move the fire

from "Man" to "Woman"...

Where are the fishermen going?

All the fishermen knows

this ancestral ruse.

I see.

Oriha. Give me a favor.

Go to Samegafuchi on boat.

You know the place well.

But I lost the habit.

She'll never make it!

It'll take too long by road.

Oriha, listen!

The Samegafuchi village

will finish like yours!

Oriha...

I am...

I am...

Rokuzo, here!

Stay here, understood!

We are cornered.

We'll have to ally ourselves.

Sorry, Samon.

I refuse the aid of a Shogun's spy.

Huh?

I knew you'd understand.

I don't need to hide anymore.

I do a dirty work.

Don't kill them!

I want them alive!

Understood?

Chamberlain!

We stopped them.

Magobei is neutralized.

Listen all!

One: When the villagers will bring the wood back,

take them to the beach.

Three oarsmen by boat!

Imprison their family and keep a watch.

Forget no one!

Two:

Take out the fire on "Man"!

Three:

Light a fire on "Woman".

Four:

Bring the boards on sea when the ship will sink.

Two clansmen by boat.

For the villagers,

wait for my orders.

Let no one escape!

Kunai is replacing me.

As you know,

it's essential for the clan's survival.

It's the way of the samurai!

I put my trust in you.

Understood?

Damn spy!

My three years old promise,

I didn't kept it.

Listen, Magobei.

I'll break it again if necessary.

As much as needed.

This world

has forced the samurai to dirty their hands

for survival.

Magobei,

you're a coward.

You fled for fear of soiling yourself.

You're right.

I'm a coward.

Coward for not killing you

on this beach three years ago.

Don't meddle in my affairs.

Take Shino with you

and leave the country peacefully.

Please.

For the Shogun,

the Sabai clan is an unimportant stronghold.

I cannot back down.

Tatewaki!

Same thing for me.

I have to kill you to save the fishermen.

I'm wasting my time with you.

So the crow won't eat you,

die in the snow!

I would have loved battling you.

Wait!

Something's fishy. Go see.

I kept you the best seat on the cape "Woman".

You're too sweet.

I'm not accusing you. You did your job as a spy.

You'll see a nice show.

Before you die, you'll get to see what the shogunate

forces us to do.

Good.

Gather the fishermen on the beach.

And inform Kunai.

I'll be watching.

Wait for my signal.

And light a big fire. Understood?

Hurry up!

It's him!

The fire on "Man" is extinguished.

Fire "Woman" is ready!

Chamberlain.

We only need to wait for the ship.

Hey, the bald!

I'm freezing to death!

Hurry up lighting the fire!

Here!

I see the vessel's light!

It's coming!

Light the fire.

Light the fire!

Light the fire!

No panic!

Chamberlain!

Send the boats.

Chamberlain, look!

I'll have it!

Wait!

Wait!

Villagers, leave your boats!

Lfyou go to the sea,

you will all die!

Go away!

Flee!

Quickly! Flee!

Flee while you can!

Or, you will all vanish!

You'll be slaughtered!

Go away!

Shit! What do we do?

I don't know.

Rokuzo.

Take this barrel.

For what?

Light the fire on "Man".

There!

Burn, burn!

Go extinguish the fire on "Man"!

Quickly!

Put out the fire on "Man"!

Quickly!

Captain!

There's two fire!

What do we do?

Oriha!

Rokuzo!

It's the right fire! It's burning high!

Hissez la voile!

Hoist the sail!

Shino.

Sorry to mistreat you.

Tell Magobei

that I want a one-on-one talk.

Shino.

My brother is waiting for you on the mountain.

- Take the logs. - Logs?

Light a fire.

I can't hold my sword. My fingers are frozen.

And the Sabai clan?

What will it become?

Magobei.

Magobei.

I'm not coming back to Edo.

I'm quitting the spy job.

I feel better.

While you are killing yourselves in the cold, what is the shogunate doing?

It's getting fatter in the heat.

It's a party!

A party?

No, a funeral.

A funeral, for us, samurais.

Here lies Rokugo Takewaki.

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