The Sword of Doom (1966)

Tatsuya Nakadai: Ryunosuke Tsukue

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• Ryunosuke Tsukue : I, Ryunosuke Tsukue, trust only my sword in this world. When I fight, I have no family.

• Ryunosuke Tsukue : A sword man prizes his skill like a woman prizes her chastity... would you surrender your chastity?

  Ohama : [in the mill]  Ryunosuke told me to come...

• Ohama : Yes, do that! That's how you are! Kill Hyoma! Kill everyone! Kill everyone in the world!

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : Not everyone...

• Ohama : If nothing had happened and Bunnojo and I were still together... If I were his wife, I would not live in misery with a heavy heart.

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : Women are selfish creatures.

  Ohama : What? You're to blame for everything! If a villain like you had never existed in this world, Bunnojo would still be alive, and both his family and yours would be safe. I would have lived a happy life forever.

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : You're wrong. This is all your fault. You caused Bunnojo's death... and brought about my ruin. A woman named Hama made it a violent match. The tip of Bunnojo's sword reeked of vengeful love. My sword, too, seemed possessed by the spirit of an evil woman. It all started with a woman named Hama.

  Ohama : How dare you!

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : You're an evil woman. No. A devil.

  Ohama : I'm glad you said that! Yes, I'm a devil! I'll be one if you want it so much! My son! I'm going to die! Die with me.

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : What are you doing? Live or die as you like!

• Ryunosuke Tsukue : Serizawa. What are you doing?

  Kamo Serizawa : What? She was eavesdropping. I'm questioning her.

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : No need for that. Just kill her.

• Ryunosuke Tsukue : What is it?

  Omatsu : Behind you.

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : Behind me?

  Omatsu : The figure of a woman.

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : A woman? I felt something too and looked back, but I saw nothing.

  Omatsu : But I'm sure I saw her. It's a ghost!

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : A ghost?

  Omatsu : Long ago, a courtesan named Kokonoe... I don't know the reason... She put on her makeup and dressed in her best and then stabbed herself here with a dagger. This room hasn't been used since.

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : A likely enough story, but there are no ghosts. I'm more afraid of the living than the dead.

• Omatsu's grandfather : Save us, merciful Buddha. If this old burden that I am could only depart for the other world, she'd be happy and no longer a pilgrim. Compassionate Buddha, please be merciful and take me to the other world now...

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : Old man. Are you a pilgrim?

  Omatsu's grandfather : Yes, I'm with my granddaughter.

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : Step forward. Step forward and look to the west.

• Ryunosuke Tsukue : Before a draw was called, he came at me with an illegal tsuki thrust. I parried and scored a blow to the head. See for yourself.

• Ryunosuke Tsukue : I didn't see anything... but I distinctly heard sounds.

  Omatsu : Sounds?

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : Mountain winds. They rise up from deep in the valleys... blowing up the young green leaves. Beyond, all you see are endless mountain ranges... that fade far away into the clouds.

  Omatsu : I saw such a scene once somewhere. At Daibosatsu Pass, I think.

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : Daibosatsu Pass?

  Omatsu : Do you know that pass, samurai?

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : Very well. But how do you know it?

  Omatsu : I passed there once. A difficult climb, 15 miles up and down.

  Ryunosuke Tsukue : Very strange. Why would a Kyoto girl climb a mountain pass?

  Omatsu : It was as a pilgrim two years ago in May, with my grandfather.