Samurai Saga (1959)
Yôko Tsukasa: Lady Ochii, Princess Chiyo
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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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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 : 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.