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Takuan Osho: [watching Takezo climb up the wall to try and free Otsu] Are you still an animal?
Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo): Otsu rescued me. Now I gotta rescue her in return!
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Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo): Why are you here?
Takuan Osho: To capture you.
[Takezo gives Takuan and Otsu a look of betrayal]
Takuan Osho: If you surrender to a Buddhist priest, consideration shall be given to you.
Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo): Never!
Takuan Osho: My boy, do you think you can win?
Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo): [stoutly] Yes.
Takuan Osho: Are you trying to defeat yourself, too?
Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo): I don't mind dying in a good fight. But before I die, I will have some blood!
Takuan Osho: What about your relatives? They're prisoners on your account.
Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo): What relatives? They all hate me!
Takuan Osho: Some are suffering.
Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo): Hang them all! Better off dead, all of them!
Takuan Osho: Even the women?
Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo): [close to tears] Quiet!
Takuan Osho: And their children?
Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo): I don't care! Let all of them...
[Takezo starts sobbing. Takuan gets up, grabs him by the back of his collar with one hand and beats him with the other]
Takuan Osho: Fool! Wild fool! I shall punish you, with the hand of your parents!
Rentarô Mikuni
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