"Yo, yo, at midnight evil spirits stalk" "As if they're from another world" "Come to rhyme rhymes" "Can you hear them?" "The sounds resonating from the darkness" "Scared senseless, but you pretend not to be interested" "Your curiosity grows day by day" "So let's go check them out, here we, here we go ya'll" "The mysterious and dangerous evil spirits" "Hell is probably full with evil spirits" "Those that can't get in march in a line" "Waiting on stand-by in this world" "There aren't any spaces left for them" "No wonder, no matter what the season is, it's always hot" "Purposely heating you up with hot verses" "That make you sweat" "You might as well let us hear you all sing!" "HA!" "It's just like a scene of a fire" "The excitement in the air heats up this island country" "DANGER!" "The tension keeps building COME ON!" "(This Japan is about to explode!" ")" "HA!" "It's just like a scene of a fire" "The excitement in the air heats up this island country" "DANGER!" "The tension keeps building COME ON!" "(This Japan is about to explode!" ")" "Lady Oiwa..." "It has been 180 years since you laid your curse, and yet it still persists." "Does your hatred run that deep?" "Featuring you as the main character, the Kabuki play" "Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan has been remarkably well received." "However..." "Come on in, folks!" "Year 8" " Bunsei Era Come on in, folks!" "Year 8" " Bunsei Era" "Year 8" " Bunsei Era You don't want to miss it!" "You don't want to miss it!" "I was known as Tsuruya Nanboku the Fourth." "But my real name is Katsu Hyozo." "I curse you, lemon!" "Act One" "Up until then, I had written many gruesome tales for the stage." "Yet none of my tales were so horrifying as to make the audience regret that they'd seen it." "I was 71 years old." "There was only so much time left in my life to write new stories." "My longing to create a story that was truly terrifying, was the hunger that urged me on." "So, from the rumors of a ghost named Oiwa," "I fabricated my story." "But the truth is..." "Perhaps I was being possessed to write the story." "Over there!" "Yes, I see it!" "There!" "Quick, release the hawk!" "Let it go!" "Go!" "Good grief, it's just a rat." "We can't eat that!" "Lady Oiwa..." "Yes, Osode." "I'll be right there." "The main characters of this horrifying, cruel story," "Tamiya lemon and Oiwa, were happy before they exchanged marriage vows and were blessed with a child." "However, the samurai of the Ako Domain gathered here fell from grace after the death of their lord, and became ronin, or samurai for hire." "lemon's lord, Asano Takumi-no-Kami had attempted, but failed to kill Kira Kozuke-no-Suke in a corridor of Edo Castle." "As such, Takumi-no-Kami was ordered to commit seppuku." "It was then rumored that the now masterless samurai of Ako would seek revenge against Kira for their master." "Yes, the Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan was presented against the backdrop of the story of "Chushingura."" "Miss," "I'm sure you'll receive good fortune and that man will take your hand." "You bastard, who gave you permission to beg here?" "!" "Are you moving in on us?" "!" "I'm very sorry." "Please forgive me." "Forgive you?" "!" "You've got to be kidding, old man!" "Hand over the money you made here!" "Ow, ow, ow...!" "Who the hell are you?" "Tamiya lemon!" "That's enough." "What did you say?" "Stay out of this, ronin!" "Tamiya lemon!" "M-Miss?" "!" "What is it, Oume?" "!" "Father-in-law, you're not injured?" "Your relations with Oiwa have been severed." "I am no longer your father-in-law." "But Oiwa and I are deeply in love." "And she's also carrying my child." "It must be fate that I saved you today." "Won't you return Oiwa to me?" "I refuse to hand over my daughter to a bandit like you!" "Is that how you think of me?" "Before our domain was dissolved, someone stole the money from it." "It had to have been you, Tamiya lemon." "What proof do you have?" "The dowry money you offered for my daughter had the domain's seal on it." "If our lord were alive, you would've been beheaded!" "Although I may have been reduced to begging," "I will not allow my daughter to be married to a scoundrel." "Excuse me." "Ignorant, foolish man!" "Five mon each!" "Cures anything!" "Well, if it isn't Naosuke, the medicine peddler." "Osode's no longer here." "What?" "She said she was starting work at another place today." "And where would that be?" "At Takuetsu's place." "The Jigoku Brothel?" "So Osode's become a prostitute." "Which would you like, the small or the large?" "Oh, I'm not here for a moxa treatment." "I came here to see about a woman." "You have a new one called Osode, from Yojiya, right?" "Indeed." "See yourself to the back." "Please excuse me." "Good evening." "Hey, Osode." "You!" "Yes, I'm Naosuke." "I used to work as a man servant for the Yotsuya family." "How'd you know I was here?" "Osode, you know something?" "I've always been taken by your striking beauty." "Come!" "Over here!" "How dare you be so vulgar!" "My family has fallen from grace, but I'm still the daughter of a samurai." "I will not be touched by a mere servant." "What an attitude!" "Stay still!" "Is that you, Osode?" "Yomoshichi, what are you doing here?" "Stop!" "I'm a customer here!" "You're Sato Yomoshichi." "Naosuke?" "Why are you treating Osode like this?" "!" "Damn you!" "Ow...!" "Damn!" "You'll regret this!" "Are you all right, Osode?" "To think you're working in a place like this." "Have you already forgotten about me?" "What a terrible thing to say." "You've already asked me for my hand in marriage." "It's shameful to see you come to a place like this." "You're right." "I have no excuse." "But I'm working as a trader these days, and even doing business with people in town." "One day I will come and take you away." "Yomoshichi." "Yomoshichi, you bastard." "I'm not going to let this go." "After being forced by her father to separate from lemon," "lemon..." "Oiwa was not able to forget him." "Tamiya lemon!" "Not only have you separated me from Oiwa, you've called me a bandit!" "Still pretending to be innocent?" "!" "How pathetic you've already become." "Doddering old fool!" "Damn you, Tamiya lemon!" "Die!" "That'll teach you, Yomoshichi!" "Serves you right." "Who's there?" "!" "I've seen your face." "Master Tamiya!" "Naosuke?" "!" "You killed him?" "Yeah." "I had a score to settle." "Score to settle?" "With who?" "Sato Yomoshichi." "But I cut up his face so bad, no one will recognize him." "I guess." "And that pathetic man..." "You killed a man, too, Master?" "Yeah." "Yotsuya Samon." "What?" "But isn't he your father-in-law?" "Naosuke, bring that body over this way." "Sure." "Lady Oiwa?" "Osode?" "What are you doing here?" "It's late and father hasn't returned, so I've come to look for him." "Did he stop by the Yojiya?" "I no longer work there." "He's trouble even when he's dead." "But what's the point of this?" "To lead people to think they were killed by bandits." "Besides, being together like this, they have each other's company on their way to the other side." "If you say so." "Someone's coming!" "Is that your father?" "!" "Oh, Father!" "Father!" "Father!" "I've seen those clothes." "Don't tell me that's...!" "Yomoshichi!" "Your face!" "How cruel!" "Father!" "Father!" "Oiwa!" "Is that you, Oiwa?" "Oh, lemon!" "It's my father!" "Father-in-law?" "!" "Who could've done this?" "!" "What are you doing?" "Please let go." "This life is nothing but hardship and suffering." "I'd rather join my father in death!" "If you take your own life now, who will avenge your father's death?" "We may be separated, but we are still husband and wife." "I will avenge his death with you." "lemon!" "Osode, I want to be of help to you." "But Naosuke, you are..." "Seeing as what's happened in the past," "I may well be accused of this." "That's why I want to avenge Yomoshichi's death." "To prove my innocence." "But you aren't my husband, or related to me at all." "So, until his death is avenged, we must pretend to be husband and wife." "Of course I won't lay a hand on you, and we'll sleep in separate rooms." "Even if we're only pretending," "I want to seek revenge together, as husband and wife." "Osode?" "Very well, then." "In a rice paddy behind Asakusa Temple lay two corpses along with two unlikely couples in a sad embrace." "What a cruel thing fate is." "Time passed and the seasons came and went." "lemon had wanted so badly to be together with his Oiwa." "But with the birth of their child, his interest in her quickly waned." "The manservant I recommended, Kohei, has run away." "Not only did he leave, he also stole something as well." "What on earth did he steal?" "A medicine called Soukisei that's been kept in the Tamiya family." "Lady Oiwa's health has been poor ever since she gave birth." "How irritating!" "Make him stop!" "How inconsiderate to have a baby in these impoverished conditions." "You're going out?" "Where to?" "You don't need to know." "Please come home quickly." "Tamiya lemon..." "Miss?" "I wonder where your father has gone?" "Tamiya!" "Chobei, you've caught Kohei for me?" "I'm sorry!" "I'm so sorry, Master Tamiya!" "Is this the medicine that was stolen from you?" "Yes, this is the Soukisei." "So Kohei, what were you planning on doing with my medicine?" "Well, my former master is terribly ill and can't move at all." "I thought the Soukisei would surely cure him." "I'm so very sorry!" "Even so, it doesn't justify stealing and running away." "What'll you do?" "Let's see." "How about we break all ten of his fingers for a start?" "Yeah, that's a pretty good idea." "Oh, please forgive me!" "Please!" " Shut up!" " Forgive me!" "Chobei, keep him quiet." "Right." "Excuse me?" "Excuse me?" "Coming." "Yes, may I ask who's calling?" "Stop wriggling around!" "Quiet in there!" "Who is it?" "Says she's a maid from the nearby House of Ito." "My name is Maki." "What business do you have with me?" "I am here to congratulate you on your wife's safe delivery." "Bring it." "That's very kind of you." "And this." "A medicine that my master, Ito Kihei, asked me to bring you." "It's good for the postpartum recovery period." "Please have your wife try it." "Thank him for his generosity." "Please Master Tamiya, I hope you'll honor the Ito Family with a visit sometime." "I will come to pay my respects." "Then we'll be looking forward to you calling." "Lady Oiwa, I have your medicine here for you." "The fate of Oiwa and lemon had finally started to play out, leading them on a downward spiral with no path for return." "What tragedy will this medicine bring?" "That will be revealed in the next act." "The colors of flowers that are embedded in the sky" "My love that changes shape" "Eventually even when I have to let go of all" "I will only think of you" "On a random spring eve" "We exchanged our first kiss" "Wrapped in a dreamlike state" "I will only think of you" "Entrusting all that I am to you" "I will finally lay to rest"