Is lord toranaga coming to yedo with us?
No. He cannot leave
without lord ishido's permission.
But you will be safer in yedo.
Then when will lord toranaga come?
I do not know, anjin-san.
Whenever he can.
How to we get to yedo?
On the galley.
And then what will happen to me?
That is for lord toranaga to decide.
Now we will be leaving.
Why is lady kiri crying?
She is unhappy to be separated
from sazuko-san, even for this short time.
Is that her daughter?
Daughter? Oh, no.
The lady's escort is the seventh and youngest
of lord toranaga's consorts.
Hai. Domo.
Lord buntaro requests that you walk beside my palanquin.
Who is he?
Lord buntaro.
Lord of sakura.
He is the son of hiro-matsu.
He is my husband.
Lord ishido.
What does he want?
I don't know.
Lord ishido has a message for his niece in yedo.
He asks if lady kisamari will take it.
Ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha!
It is bad luck in my country
for a prince to give a message like a commoner!
Bad luck, bad luck.
Bad!
You cannot take it from a prince's hand. Oh, bad luck!
Bad luck is the worst luck there is.
My master is in here. My master is in here.
Help me! Ha-ha. Bad luck.
Oh, bad, bad.
Oh! Oh! Bad, bad, bad...
no.
Please?
Tell him to follow me.
Tell him i've gone mad.
Out of my way! Out of my way!
Oh, bad luck, bad luck!
Are they coming? I can't keep this up much longer.
Yes, yes, anjin-san.
Our people our coming!
You can stop dancing now.
You are a brave man, anjin-san.
I thank you for saving him.
Then tell me why lord toranaga didn't leave the castle openly.
Why the masquerade?
No one leaves osaka castle
without lord ishido's permission.
Not even my master.
Did you know he was there?
No. Not until you told me.
But you saw earlier.
Yes.
And i saw what you did.
Putting yourself between ishido's arrow and my back.
Your bravery is greater than mine, lady.
No, please.
You must not say that.
But that is the truth.
How do you say "truth" in japanese?
Honto.
Then it is honto that you are braver than i.
You are brave... and you are beautiful.
You have a honeyed tongue, anjin-san.
That you are beautiful is honto as well.
Here it is not wise to notice another man's woman.
Our customs are very strong.
For example,
if a married woman is found alone with a man,
by law, her husband or his brother
or his father has a right to put her to death.
But that's not even civilized.
We find ourselves quite civilized, anjin-san.
You must remember
our culture is a thousand years old.
We are ancient people.
Our emperor is the 107th of his unbroken line.
Right back to the celestial spirits.
If you believe that,
how can you also say you're a catholic?
I am only a ten-year christian.
And though i believe in the christian god
with all my soul,
our emperor is without question.
Yes, i am a christian, but first i am japanese.
Get down!
No, stay down!
Hai!
Lord toranaga wishes us to go with him and lord yabu.
My husband will continue with the others
on a separate route.
But if we separate...
do not argue, please.
Anjin?
Wakarimasu.
Who were they?
Who attacked us?
Lord ishido's men?
Bandits or...
i do not know.
Who are they?
Lord toranaga's samurai.
In osaka castle at the appointed hour,
general hiro-matsu followed lord toranaga's instructions.
He requested an immediate interview with lord ishido.
"What could be so urgent?"
Demanded the master of osaka castle.
Lord toranaga's letter was his resignation
from the council of regents.
How can we reach the galley with ishido's men there?
Lord toranaga will find a way.
The odds are not exactly in our favor.
He had asked me to explain to you what he has done.
My master has resigned from the council of regents.
Now there are only four of them,
and five are needed to make any decision.
Then ishido will appoint another regent.
No, he cannot.
The four will have to agree on the choice,
and they will argue.
Sooner or later, they'll decide.
By then, my master will be safe.
Mariko.
Hai, todo.
Lord toranaga says that you and i
we will go to the galley and tell them
that we have been attacked by bandits.
Do you think they'll believe you?
Whatever they do,
you and i are to go into the galley at once.
Then i'll want a knife.
Better get me two.
You go over there!
Hurry!
Isogi! Isogi! Isogi!
Konbanwa, anjin-san.
Konbanwa, captain-san.
The captain says that you saved his ship
during the storm on the trip here.
Ask him if the ship is ready to sail
as soon as the others arrive.
He says the ship is ready to leave on your command.
The castle alarm.
Lord ishido knows.
Look at him...
as if he had all the time in the world.
I... i thank you for my life, anjin-san.
Hai!
Anjin-san.
Hai.
Hai, captain-san, cast off.
Hai.
Any closer and i will blow her out of the water.
No.
We risk nothing, eminence, and gain everything.
We pretend that we didn't know toranaga was aboard.
We thought the bandits...
bandits led by the pirate heretic...
were going to attack us.
The galley is flying toranaga's flag.
False colors.
That's the oldest trick in the world.
With toranaga dead,
that would make things simple for us, hmm?
We will not interfere in their politics.
But you interfere all the time.
The society of jesus is famous for interfering.
Don't talk to me
as if i am some simple, thick-headed peasant.
While i am aboard, you will not sink that ship.
Then kindly go ashore.
They could blow us to hell.
No portuguese ship would fire on us.
Mariko...
anjin...
my master asks what you would do to break through.
Cannon would be the easiest way, but there aren't any...
and this ship couldn't hold them if there were.
The next best thing
would be to put 20 men with muskets on the bow,
and simply blast through.
Santiago!
Sight for the quarterdeck!
Aye, sir. She's an easy target.
It's a waste to kill a pilot like that, captain.
We should use him.
Ready, sir.
I say thou shalt not kill.
But we kill all the time, father.
While i am here, there will be no killing.
Ahoy, frigate!
Ahoy, ingeles.
Is that you, rodrigues?
Aye.
Permission to come aboard?
Who, ingeles?
Lord toranaga, his interpreter, and guards.
I don't want samurai aboard.
Lord toranaga must bring some.
It's a matter of face.
Settle on five.
Five, hmm.
But tell the heretic he must come, as well.
Why?
For my amusement, eminence.
For my amusement.
Tell him.
Five guards only, ingeles,
but you come, too.
Why me?
Well, tell him something, pilot.
Convince him, hmm?
There's grog on the table, ingeles.
There's a fine roast capon with greens and gravy.
There's new golden bread and a side of beef.
There's fresh oranges from goa,
and there's even a gallon of madeira wine
to wash it all down.
Damn you to hell, rodrigues!
He's coming.
Permission to come aboard.
Well! Look who's gone jappo.
You didn't tell me there were priests onboard.
You didn't ask, ingeles.
Where's the food?
My cabin.
Come on, i'll show you.
I'll get you some decent clothes out of my locker.
The food first, spaniard.
A spaniard would let you starve, jappo.
In there.
Listen, you whore-gutted, pox-mugged, motherless scum...
i need a favor.
Slowly, ingeles.
Slowly.
Which do you prefer...
brandy or grog?
Both.
Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm!
Lord toranaga says that, of course,
lord ishido is trying to kill him.
So are many other lords.
They have done so in the past,
and they will do so in the future.
Lord toranaga says that if he is killed,
that it will simplify things for the moment.
He is in ishido's trap now,
and if the trap is successful,
it will produce only a temporary advantage.
Lf, however, lord toranaga escapes,
then there never was a trap.
Enough, enough, enough, enough.
Ask him what he wants.
Excuse me, eminence,
but lord toranaga just said that he was considering
asking you to build a large temple
or a cathedral in yedo, as a measure
of his confidence in our interests.
I thank you, lord toranaga.
I have yearned for many years to hear that news.
Know that we will always endeavor to assist you.
Lord toranaga says that since there are pirates
at the mouth of the harbor...
pirates!
- He requires... - well!
He requires 20 muskets and enough powder and shot
to deal with the situation.
You are always selling arms.
This should be no problem.
Not for you. You've made your deal.
What's he offering me?
Please, captain, you must help us. Please.
I beg you, on behalf of the church.
Since you ask help in the church's name, uh, eminence,
of course i will do what you ask,
but in return, i want the captain-generalship
of next year's black ship,
whether this year is successful or not.
You dare ransom me and the church?
This is merely a business arrangement
between you, me, and this monkey.
He is no monkey, captain. You had better remember that.
And what next?
Surely there's something else.
I want the heretic.
I want the englishman.
Anjin-san...
hmm?
Lord toranaga says that you can have the englishman.
Madonna, what a pig.
Get him up and bring him onto the quarterdeck.
Get someone to clean this cabin up.
Come on, you drunken piece of english filth!
Wake up!
Listen, ingeles...
leave me alone.
I owed you a life.
Now that's settled.
Throw him overboard.
And stay the hell off my ship!
What have you done?
Ingeles offended me, so i threw him overboard.
What's the problem, captain?
I want this man aboard!
I think you'll have to swim after him.
Damn your soul, rodrigues.
Do you know what you've cost me?
I am sorry, captain.
How was i to know that you wanted him?
Put the priests ashore.
We are sailing for macao.
Yes, captain.
Whatever you say.
Thy mum...
is in the devil's lair, ingeles!
Thy mother was there first, rodrigues!
Now!
Why have we stopped at anjiro?
The erasmus.
Where's my ship?
Lord toranaga had it moved to yedo for safety.
Yedo?!
What about my crew?
They are under lord toranaga's protection in yedo.
Yabu-sama!
What's he doing?
My master is going to inspect lord yabu's troops.
And then what?
My master will let us know.
Samurai of izu,
vassals of my friend kasigi yabu.
I am honored to be here.
I am honored to see part of the strength of izu,
the forces of my great ally.
Today, dark clouds are gathering
over the empire to threaten the taiko's peace.
Let every samurai be prepared.
Let every weapon be sharp.
Together, we will defend our country!
Together, we will prevail!
Toranaga-sama!
The sound of his personal samurai
celebrating lord toranaga's name louder and louder
caused kasigi yabu's pride to vanish with his honor.
But toranaga understood yabu's potential for treachery.
Yabu's troops had responded as toranaga knew they would.
Now that he had diminished yabu, he would raise him up again.
I have carried this sword for 15 years.
We've gone through many battles together,
and it has never failed me,
as i know you, kasigi yabu, will never fail me.
This is the lord toranaga's gift for you.
Domo, toranaga-sama.
Aren't we going with him?
No.
Then how do we get to yedo?
Lord toranaga said we were going to yedo.
My ship is there.
We are to stay here.
Why here?
You expressed an interest in learning our language.
That is what my master wishes you to do.
But why here? Why not in yedo?
I'm sorry, anjin-san, but i do not know.
I can only tell you that lord toranaga is very wise.
Whatever his reason, it must be very good.
Aren't you going to open your present?
Lord yabu says that you are welcome in this village.
This paper is under lord toranaga's seal, anjin-san.
You are to keep it.
He has given you a great honor.
Lord toranaga has made you a hatamoto.
This is the position of a special retainer
on his personal staff.
That house is to be provided for you.
Lord yabu says
that you will please learn our language
as quickly as possible.
And tonight, you will go to his house.
Wakarimasu ka, anjin-san?
Hai. Wakarimasu domo, yabu-sama.
Hai, yabu-sama.
What did he say?
He...
lord yabu told them
that you are his honored guest here.
He said that you're also
lord toranaga's very honored retainer.
That you are here to learn our language.
This whole village has the honor
and responsibility of teaching you.
What else?
The village is responsible, anjin-san.
If you have not learned
to speak our language well enough within six months,
the village will be burned.
But before that...
every man, woman and child will be crucified.
Crucified?!
Those are lord yabu's orders.
And there is nothing anyone can do to stop him.
There must be some way.
In japan, anjin-san, there are only japanese ways.
Konbanwa, anjin-san.
Konbanwa.
Good evening.
Did you enjoy your walk?
I walked through the village.
Looked at their faces.
I know that lord yabu's orders distressed you...
but you must learn to be patient with us.
Patient?
Please, sit down.
You must be tired.
Thank you.
Would you like some sake, or a bath, maybe?
The water is hot.
Some sake, please.
Fujiko-san.
Thank you. Domo.
I'm honored to tell you
that usaki fujiko is given to you as consort.
What?
Lord toranaga asked her if she would be your consort,
and she said she would be honored,
and she has agreed.
But i haven't agreed.
But anjin-san, you cannot refuse.
The lady fujiko will be considered a great honor.
She is recently widowed.
She is only 19,
but she has lost her husband and her son,
and is filled with remorse.
What happened to her husband and son?
They were put to death.
Her husband foolishly put lord toranaga's life in danger.
Lord toranaga had an infant put to death...
for something the, the father did?
Yes.
Our customs are different from yours.
You see, by law, we belong to our liege lord.
By law, a father possesses the lives
of his wife and children and consorts.
And your husband could put you to death.
Yes. That is his right.
If you accept the lady fujiko,
she will look after your house and servants,
or, if you prefer, simply ignore her.
Think of her as nothing, but allow her to stay.
Accept her and then, if she offends you,
you will have the right to kill her.
That's the only answer you have, isn't it?
Kill.
No, anjin-san...
but life and death are the same.
Who knows?
Maybe you will do fujiko-san a greater service
by taking her life.
So, i'm trapped again.
If i don't accept her, she will die.
If i don't learn your language,
a whole village will be butchered.
If i don't do whatever you want,
some innocent will always be killed.
There's no way out, is there?
Anjin-san...
forget the village.
A million things can happen before those six months are up.
You must leave karma to karma.
Today, you are here,
and nothing you can do will change that.
Tomorrow does not exist.
There is only now.
There is only this moment.
Nothing else. Nothing.
Omi-san has been ordered
to escort you to lord yabu's house.
I'm sorry, anjin-san,
but omi-san orders you to give him your pistol.
Tell him this weapon is a gift from lord toranaga.
He already knows that, anjin-san.
Please, anjin-san, this is very dangerous.
You must see lord yabu,
and you may not take your pistol.
Tell him i'll blow his head off if he comes any nearer.
You can leave the pistol here, or give it to fujiko-san.
What could she do?
He'll just take it from her.
Listen to me.
Fujiko-san is your consort.
If you order it,
she will protect the pistol with her life.
I'm sorry, anjin-san, but you must do something.
I want you to say this to fujiko-san exactly:
I'm going to give you my pistol.
You are to guard it.
No one but me is to touch it.
Hai.
Shall we go?
What did he say?
Only that he would report this to lord yabu.
Your consort rightly points out that
a hatamoto has to wear the two swords of a samurai.
She asked if you would consider using these.
Dozo.
What did he say?
Lord yabu received a message from osaka
informing him that ito teruzumi
has been chosen for the council of regents.
He has already taken his place,
and lord ishido is the new president.
Lord yabu says that they are going to impeach
lord toranaga in 20 days.
Then lord toranaga was wrong.
They did agree on someone.
I have told you, anjin-san,
lord toranaga is very wise.
He is seldom wrong.
But if this time he is wrong, what will happen?
Tomorrow does not exist.
20 tomorrows is a long time.
Lord yabu asks if you have ever been part
of any battles on land.
Yes, in holland, and once in france.
As a favor, he would like to know european strategy.
He would like to know
how battles are fought in your country.
I will be happy to grant lord yabu's favor.
Even more, if he wishes, i will train his men to fight...
to fight so that they are unbeatable.
Hai.
But in return, i would also ask a favor.
I would ask lord yabu, as a humble favor,
to rescind his decree about the village.
Lord yabu says the village is unimportant.
The villagers are nothing for you to be concerned about.
Please apologize to lord yabu,
but i must ask him to rescind the decree tonight.
He just said no, anjin-san.
It would not be polite.
Yes, i understand...
but please ask him again.
It is very important to me.
Please, mariko-san.
Lord yabu says the village means nothing,
but his decree cannot be changed.
Thank you.
Yes, i understand.
Please thank yabu-san...
but tell him that i cannot live with the shame.
What?
I cannot live with the shame
of having the village on my conscience.
I am dishonored.
This is more than i can bear.
It is against my christian beliefs.
I will have to commit suicide at once.
Suicide?!
Lord yabu says that suicide is not a... a foreign custom.
It is against the christian god.
How can you...
how can you kill yourself?
I am very sorry, but custom or not, god or not,
the shame of the village is greater than i can bear.
I am in japan.
I am hatamoto.
I have a right to live according to your laws.
Lord yabu asks how you would commit suicide.
Anjin-san...
lord yabu says the decree will not be changed.
I am...
i am very sorry.
Anjin-san...
hai.
Lord yabu says that whatever you learn will be enough.
The village will not be burned.
Do you hear me... anjin-san?
The rain is fine... isn't it?
You should rest now, anjin-san.
Yes.
I would like to go home.
Sorry to be so slow.
You must not be sorry, anjin-san.
Tonight, you were reborn.
This is another life...
a new life.
Hai.
Domo.
Hai.
I slept very well. Domo.
How do you say it? Yoku...
hai.
And your language, all european languages
are much more difficult than japanese.
Japanese is really very simple.
Look how much you have learned already.
Most japanese verbs end in "masu."
To make it a question, you just add "ka."
Wakarimasu ka?
"Do you understand?"
Wakarimasu.
"I understand."
To make it negative,
you just change mas to masen.
"I do not understand."
"To eat" is...
ask me if i have eaten.
Or, if i have not eaten, what do i say?
"To go."
Are they all that way?
Almost.
Write them down.
"To read."
"To come."
"To cut."
"To become."
How do you say "there is"?
"There is" or "there are."
They are both the same.
...means "i go."
But also "you," "he," "she," "they," and "we go."
It is very simple.
But how do you tell the difference
between "i go" and "they go"?
By inflection, anjin-san, and by tone.
Listen.
Sounds exactly the same.
That is because you are still thinking in your own language.
To understand japanese, you have to think japanese.
Our language is the language of the infinite.
It is all so simple, anjin-san.
I've never seen you do that before.
What?
Laugh.
Really laugh, as though you were happy.
Right now, i am happy.
Tomorrow does not exist.
Only now.
Only this moment, anjin-san.
I wish this moment could last forever.
I wish...
what do you wish?
I wish you were to be my consort.
I belong to lord buntaro.
And after he is dead...
i cannot think or say what might be thought or said.
Please, anjin-san,
do not say any more.
...is "i," and
...is "you."
To make it possessive, you change "wa" to "no."
Wakarimasu ka?
Hai.
Possessive.
Very good.
...means "this is."
...means "what is this?"
Paper is...
where in god's name did she find that?
Fujiko-san says one of the servants
caught this pheasant.
She understands that you eat meat,
so she sent them to hunt for you.
Domo, fujiko-san.
Domo arigato.
Now i want to hang that pheasant.
I'll need some rope.
What are you going to do?
I'm going to hang the pheasant there.
But-but it will go rotten, anjin-san.
It should be prepared at once.
No, pheasant meat is dry
so you hang it for a few days, the way you do with most game.
It matures the meat.
Anjin-san...
domo.
Some people think you should hang a pheasant
by the tail feathers until it drops off,
but that's an old wives' tale.
The neck's the right place.
Then the juices stay where they belong.
Some people let it hang till it falls off the neck,
but i don't like my meat quite that gamy.
There.
No one is to touch it but me.
Mariko, would you please explain?
No one but me.
Now, that is going to be a royal feast.
Please do not let me disturb you.
Uh, no, i was just, uh...
uh, i'm almost finished.
I can come back later, if you wish.
No-no-no, i, uh...
you're not disturbing me.
Did your training go well, anjin-san?
Y-yes, very well...
lord yabu's men are learning very quickly.
Is this usual?
I mean, uh, for you to be, uh, to be...
to be sharing your bath?
Mmm.
In japan, anjin-san, we have no shame of our bodies.
Everything is natural and normal,
and because there are so many of us,
that is also necessary.
The one thing we do not have is privacy,
so we must learn to create our own.
We are taught from childhood to disappear within ourselves,
to grow impenetrable walls behind which we live.
What... walls?
Oh, we have an endless maze
to hide in, anjin-san: Rituals and customs.
Even our language has nuances which allow us to avoid
any question we do not want to answer.
May i share your bath?
Uh... yes.
Dozo. Please.
I will tell you a secret, anjin-san.
Do not be fooled by our bows and smiles,
our gentleness and attentions.
Beneath them all, we can be far away, safe and alone.
That is what we seek: Oblivion.
...mariko-san.
Someday, you will understand.
I'm sure, someday you will understand.
Mariko?
...anjin-sama.
...fujiko-san.
Hai.
In fact, i slept marvelously well.
Well, someday, perhaps, you will.
...anjin-san.
Is something wrong?
Nothing's wrong...
at this moment, nothing in the whole world.
Then... shall we begin our lesson?
Thou art beautiful, and i love thee.
Love is a christian word.
Thou art beautiful and christian...
and i love thee.
I will take that as a compliment.
Take it as i meant it.
You seem very happy today.
You know why.
I know nothing, anjin-san.
Nothing?
Why have you lost your smile?
Because i don't understand.
There is nothing to understand.
What passed in the night, then?
I passed your door in the night when my maid was with you.
What?!
Fujiko-san and i, we thought...
she would be a pleasing gift for you.
And she pleased you, did she not?
It was no maid.
It was.
We anointed her with my perfume,
and instructed her not to speak, only to touch.
A joke...
concerning things of great importance
is sometimes without humor.
Things of great import
will always be treated with great import.
But a maid in the night with a man is without import.
It is only a gift from her to him,
and sometimes, from him to her.
Nothing more.
Never?
Only when the woman and the man join together
against the law.
If a woman who belonged to a man...
as i belong to lord buntaro...
if she joined with another man, that would be a serious crime,
a crime punishable by death.
Forgive me.
I am a fool.
How do i tell this maid that i love her?
Oh, that would not be seemly, anjin-san.
It is our custom to make life simple.
We admire simplicity, so men and women
can take pillowing for what it is.
Then nothing is to be said between us?
Nothing. That is wise.
And if i don't agree?
You must.
You are here.
This is your home.