Samurai Saga (1959)
Toshirô Mifune: Heihachiro Komaki
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Quotes
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Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : Chiyo! Open your window, and show me your fair self. And your dark eyes that are like twin pools.
Lady Ochii aka Princess Chiyo : No. You do not love me anymore.
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : My love for you grows ever deeper. You accuse me wrongly, and I am crestfallen.
Lady Ochii aka Princess Chiyo : Why, I...
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : My heart aches with love for you. And I only live for the moments I see your dear face.
Heihachiro Komaki : [whispering to Jurota] "Were I a mirror."
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : Were I a mirror, you would look at me, and I'd whisper my love.
Heihachiro Komaki : Good!
Lady Ochii aka Princess Chiyo : Why, Jurota!
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Heihachiro Komaki : What's the matter? It didn't go well?
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : I said I loved her, that I loved her very much.
Heihachiro Komaki : Naturally.
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : I kept repeating it.
Heihachiro Komaki : Just that, the whole time? "I love you, I love you"? That's no good.
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Heihachiro Komaki : Shall I start right in about my fighting 25 men? It was like this. Their leader faced me.
[flashback to the night of the fight]
Samurai leader : Enough!
Heihachiro Komaki : Don't you know my strength yet? Don't anger me with nonsense. Understand?
[flashback ends]
Heihachiro Komaki : A silvery moon hung in heaven, but, frequently, she hid her shining face among the clouds, as if she could not bear the sights on Earth. Then murky darkness enveloped us. It was so dark that no shadow could be seen. Only the murmuring river could be heard. I cursed the darkness. I quietly...
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : Nosed in?
Heihachiro Komaki : [angered] Who's that?
Samurai : A newcomer.
Heihachiro Komaki : A newcomer?
Samurai leader : His name's Karube.
Heihachiro Komaki : I see. He has courage. Where was I?
Samurai leader : Dark...
Heihachiro Komaki : Yes, it was so dark I couldn't see. So I hit upon an idea. It was to defeat the leader first when fighting many. So...
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : That's a noseful.
Heihachiro Komaki : [growling with rage] I fought everyone who had the audacity to attack me. I plunged into their midst...
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : Nose first.
Heihachiro Komaki : The man who dared to berate me...
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : Took a nose dive.
Heihachiro Komaki : I pinned the strongest one! But three attacked me from behind, so I yanked their...
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : Noses.
Heihachiro Komaki : ...bodies and then we were...
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : Nose to nose.
Heihachiro Komaki : [yelling] ... soon in a heated struggle, but I won.
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : Nose high.
Heihachiro Komaki : After I had finished the three, a tall man challenged me. But I caught him fairly...
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe : On the nose.
Heihachiro Komaki : [infuriated] Out of my sight, everyone!
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Lady Ochii aka Princess Chiyo : We both have our old wounds. I have mine here. An old wound, but forever new. A paper stained with blood and tears.
Heihachiro Komaki : Ahh... his letter? You promised me that you might let me read it.
Lady Ochii aka Princess Chiyo : You really wish to?
Heihachiro Komaki : Yes, I really do, today.
[Lady Ochii removes Jutaro's letter from inside her kimono and hands it to Komaki]
Lady Ochii aka Princess Chiyo : Here, then... read it.
[Komaki begins to read Jutaro's letter - the words of which he, Komaki, had actually written]
Heihachiro Komaki : Farewell, Princess Chiyo, for today I die. Nevermore will my eyes follow my lady's graceful movements. And so memories must suffice. And I recall again your endearing ways. My heart is heavy...
[He chokes up but continues reading]
Heihachiro Komaki : for I must die and leave so much of my love unspoken.
Lady Ochii aka Princess Chiyo : [visibly moved] The way you read it!
Heihachiro Komaki : Farewell, paragon of gentlewomen.
Lady Ochii aka Princess Chiyo : [recognizing the voice from ten years earlier, in the garden outside her window] That voice of yours!
[the letter falls from Komaki's hands, but he continues reading, since he himself wrote it and knows the words]
Heihachiro Komaki : Waking and sleeping, my thoughts were ever with you. And though I end this mortal life, my love will never change.
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Heihachiro Komaki : Yes, I did not tell you today's news. "And finally, on April 15, Heiachiro Komaki was murdered by Shogunate officers."... I vowed to die honorably, by a hero's sword. Yes, but behold me now: caught and killed in a trap set for me. So ends the life of a clown.
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Heihachiro Komaki : [delirious from the head wound] My only friend is the moon.
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Heihachiro Komaki : A warrior may stand brave and strong with his bow and arrow, but love makes him timid.
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Heihachiro Komaki : I am going to journey alone to that dim and distant moon. Death has come for me. Very well, I'll go to welcome you.
[Heihachiro's spirit exits his body]
Heihachiro Komaki : Death! Staring at my nose, are you? Look and laugh if you will. I will fight to the last! I'm different from others. There are a thousand of you. But I'm alone. I can't fight a thousand men. Fool! I'm not a coward. I'd win in a fair battle! You intend to strip me. Strip me of my valor, my success, and my wit if you can. Let's see you do it!
[he strikes with his sword and reawakens in his body]
Heihachiro Komaki : But I don't need anything anymore, so take it all. Empty-handed, I journey to the moon. I take only what I hold most dear, unstained and pure.
Lady Ochii aka Princess Chiyo : What is that?
Heihachiro Komaki : It is my undaunted spirit.
[last lines]
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Lady Ochii aka Princess Chiyo : Do you remember the old days?
Heihachiro Komaki : The old days?
Lady Ochii aka Princess Chiyo : Yes, you were always getting hurt here and there.
Heihachiro as a child : Mother, I am bleeding. Please bandage it.
Ochii as a child : Why, child, you've hurt yourself again. Naughty.
Heihachiro Komaki : [they laugh] That's right.
Lady Ochii aka Princess Chiyo : Even at this age, you're still the same.
Heihachiro Komaki : It was just child's play.