47 Ronin Quotes

Mika: My father taught me this world was only a preparation for the next, that all we can ask is that we leave it having loved and being loved.

Kai: I will search for you through 1,000 worlds and 10,000 lifetimes until I find you.

Mika: I will wait for you in all of them.

Shogun Tsunayoshi: For the crime of disobedience, you should all be executed as common criminals, but you and your men follow the old ways of Bushido, to honor your lord and to avenge treachery. I see only samurai before me. I grant you the samurai's death, to be buried alongside your lord, with honor.

Ôishi: Thank you, your Highness.

[first lines]

Narrator: Ancient feudal Japan, a land shrouded in mystery, forbidden to foreigners. A group of magical islands home to witches and demons. A nation of rival provinces whose lords were ruled by a shogun whose will is absolute. Peace in the realm is kept by the samurai, master swordsmen tasked with protecting their lord and their province at all costs. Should a samurai ever lose of fail his master, he suffers the greatest shame in all Japanese society. He becomes a ronin. And yet, to know they story of the 47 Ronin, is to know the story of all Japan.

Basho: Kai, I have a confession to make. When I was a boy, I used to wait in the woods outside your hut and when you came out, I threw stones at you and hide.

Kai: I knew it was you. I could see your belly sticking out from behind the trees.

Basho: I'm sorry, Kai. You're a good man.

Yasuno: Kai, forgive me for not thanking you for defeating the beast and saving my life. A samurai does not take credit for victories of others.

[Presents Basho's sword to Kai]

Yasuno: This belonged to Basho. A samurai wears two swords.

[Kai takes the sword and bows]

Ôishi: When a crime goes unpunished the world is unbalanced. When the wrong is unavenged the heavens look down on us in shame. We too must die for this circle of vengeace to be closed. We will leave this record of our courage so the world will know who we were and what we did. Tonight, we will regain our honor and avenge our lord. None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come, but soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.

[Summons Kai to sign the document]

Ôishi: Kai.

Kai: [Kai signs his name and stamps his blood] We end this now.

Ôishi: Now, we are 47!

Ôishi: We will leave this record of our courage so the world will know who we were and what we did. Tonight, we will regain our honor and avenge our lord. None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come, but soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.

[Summons Kai to sign the document]

Ôishi: Kai.

Kai: [Kai signs his name and stamps his blood] We end this now.

Ôishi: Now, we are 47!

Tengu Lord: Was it worth it what you found in the outside world? The love of a woman you can never have?

Kai: Yes.

Tengu Lord: No matter what you do, Mika will never be yours in this life.

Kai: Then I will go to my death and pray I find her in the next!