"Yo, yo, yonaka ni bakko suru chimi mouryou" "Marude ikaino ichimi routou" "Mitai na rhymer rhyme shini toujou" "Kikoetarou?" "Yamini hibiku oto" "Bibitte kyomi nai furi shiyouto" "Koukishin wa hini hini jyoushou" "Nara check shini ikou, here we, here we go ya'll!" "Ayashi ayaushi ma no chimi mouryou" "Tabun jigoku wa manpai" "Afure dashita renchuu ga dantai de retsu wo nashite" "Kono yo ni stand-by" "Yatsura no bun basho ga mazu tannai" "Dooride kisetsu towazu atsui hazu" "Aete heat up sasu ikatsui verse wo" "Kamashite ase kakasuzo" "Douse yakedaro kikasena gasshou wo yo!" "HA!" "Koitsuwa marude kajiba" "Sugee nekki tamacchimau shimaguni" "DANGER!" "Masu masu agacchimau COME ON!" "(Kono Jipangu mouchoi de panku!" ")" "HA!" "Koitsuwa marude kajiba" "Sugee nekki tamacchimau shimaguni" "DANGER!" "Masu masu agacchimau COME ON!" "(Kono Jipangu mouchoi de panku!" ")" "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 ready here for you." "Master Ito sent his best wishes and medicine for me?" "Please offer him my thanks." "I'd feel awkward doing that." "She's right." "It's best that you go." "In that case, take Akiyama with you." "I'll bring your haori out for you." "We're living like peasants here and we still have a haori?" "I am the wife of a samurai, after all." "Well, I'm on my way." "Please give my deepest thanks to Master Ito." "It seems to me that lemon's been somewhat cool towards you." "What a shame, seeing as you've given him a child and all." "He's actually a warm person deep down." "It's just that he's now a ronin." "I suppose that's how it is." "Ito Kihei has prospered under Kira's vassalage." "Becoming close to him might benefit you." "Lady Oiwa, now please take your medicine." "Yes." "This will probably make me feel better." "It's bitter." "So glad you came to visit." "They say that good medicine tastes bitter." "I suppose." "My throat!" "My throat is burning!" "Lady Oiwa!" "What's the matter?" "!" "I curse you, lemon!" "Act Two" "My name was Tsuruya Nanboku the Fourth." "The Kabuki play I wrote, Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, was based on a well-known ghost story." "It is said that Oiwa, the daughter of Yotsuya Samon, was a strong willed girl who had survived small pox when she was a young girl." "In order to prevent her family's demise, she took a husband, a ronin named Tamiya lemon." "However, due to Ito Kihei's trickery, she was unjustly separated from her husband." "Oiwa was deeply hurt and became emotionally unstable." "She ran through the streets of Edo, screaming like a madwoman, and then vanished without a trace." "After that, 18 members of the houses of Tamiya and Ito died." "Some claimed that this was the curse of Oiwa." "The Kabuki play I wrote does not follow the curse of Oiwa as such." "So is this tale, Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, actually a story that I created?" "No, please." "There's no need to be so formal." "Please make yourself comfortable." "Oume!" "Aren't you going to fill Master lemon's cup?" "Here you are." "Thank you." "This is my granddaughter, Oume." "Perhaps because she lost her parents at a young age, it seems I've spoiled her such that she has become very demanding." "Once she sees something she likes, she's not content until it's hers." "Here you are." "Please help yourself." "Thank you." "What the...?" "!" "Look, Tamiya." "For you, Tamiya, I've prepared a separate gift." "Goodness..." "I don't recall doing anything for you that merits such a reward." "Truth is, it seems that my granddaughter is quite smitten with you." "Master Tamiya." "Would you consider marriage to Oume?" "I've brought you some water!" "Lady Oiwa!" "Water..." "More water!" "Yes!" "Right away!" "You have a wife of course." "But I understand she's been unwell since giving birth." "Even so, I cannot simply leave her without a good reason." "Then you mean it's impossible?" "If so, Master Tamiya, please kill me right now." "What are you saying?" "Well, the medicine that Maki brought over earlier..." "I was told it was good for postpartum recovery." "That medicine..." "Here's some water!" "Although it isn't fatal, it's a poison that will disfigure the face of one who takes it." "What are you saying?" "!" "Like I told you, I indulge the girl." "If you are willing to marry my granddaughter," "I will surrender the Ito assets to you." "I beg you." "If you won't do it, I'll kill myself right here!" "Oh, Miss Oume!" "Miss Oume!" "Please don't do it, Miss Oume!" "Tamiya." "Rejecting his offer would be a terrible mistake." "Oh!" "So you've agreed!" "What an auspicious day it is!" "We can hold the tentative ceremony this very evening!" "Damn it!" "Welcome home." "How are you feeling?" "How's the medicine?" "After I took that medicine, for some reason my face began to feel hot." "And the pain..." "Probably some kind of side effect." "But you seem better." "Not so." "I doubt I have much longer to live." "I'm not afraid of dying, but I can't help feeling sorry for my child." "If I were to die, please promise me that you won't remarry." "Remarry?" "I'm about to wed my second wife." "How can you be so cruel?" "!" "She's much younger and more beautiful than you are." "I'm taking the comb." "You won't..." "No, you won't!" "This is an heirloom my mother gave me." "Father's death has yet to be avenged!" "It's about time you give up on that." "How could you?" "!" "We're husband and wife." "You said we'd find his killer!" "The way things are now, it's pointless to talk about revenge." "I've grown tired of all of this." "If you can't accept that, then leave." "You want to separate?" "What about our baby?" "I don't want the kid!" "You're willing to abandon our child?" "Kohei!" "Keep it down in there!" "Oh, Master Tamiya!" "I was out getting oil for the lantern." "Something's happened to Lady Oiwa!" "It's because of the medicine we got from the Ito family." "What?" "!" "How do you know that?" "Tonight," "I'm exchanging wedding vows with Ito's granddaughter." "Pardon?" "!" "Takuetsu, you've always had feelings for Oiwa, haven't you?" "What?" "!" "I'd never be so presumptuous!" "Do as you like with her." "What's this?" "!" "Get Oiwa to be unfaithful." "I need her thrown out of the house before dawn." "If things don't go well," "I don't care if you kill her." "Master Tamiya said that he would be late tonight." "Allow me to give you a massage." "Lady Oiwa!" "Wh-What are you doing?" "!" "What are you trying to do to the wife of a samurai!" "Master Tamiya no longer loves you, Lady Oiwa." "So how about considering possibilities with me?" "You disrespectful bastard!" "Please don't, Lady Oiwa!" "Lady Oiwa!" "Please forgive me!" "I only did it because your husband ordered me to!" "lemon did?" "!" "The medicine the Ito family sent over..." "It was meant to disfigure your face." "It was poison." "So this is my face?" "It was all planned so that Oume, the Ito patriarch's granddaughter, could be married to your husband." "I'm going to the Ito house to thank them for what they've done." "Takuetsu, bring my teeth blackening kit!" "What?" "You mustn't blacken your teeth!" "You've only just given birth to a child!" "I can at least make myself attractive." "I must at least retain my dignity as a woman." "And comb my hair." "I must go give them my thanks." "If I die now," "lemon will be bound in matrimony to that Oume." "I will hold a grudge against you, lemon!" "You will never live this down!" "Lady Oiwa...!" "Cats are forbidden near the dead." "Go on!" "Shoo!" "I can't stay in this place any longer!" "M-Master Tamiya!" "Takuetsu." "Have you killed her?" "No!" "I didn't do anything!" "Lady Oiwa died a tragic death, and it's all your fault!" "Kohei!" "I'll consider keeping your crimes a secret." "In exchange for the Soukisei medicine." "Kobotoke Kohei," "I can't let you live." "Throw the door into the river." "Let them think they died for their love." "Don't forget your promise to me." "Of course not." "Excuse us, Tamiya!" "We're early!" "My, my, if it isn't Master Ito." "I realize we may seem hasty, it's just that Oume was insistent on moving in right away!" "Master Tamiya, where's your wife?" "She abandoned the baby, and ran off somewhere with my manservant Kohei." "Is that so?" "Then why don't you let Maki and I look after the child in her place." "Oume." "Look up, and show your face to me." "Yes." "You're looking ever more beautiful tonight." "lemon." "I curse you, lemon!" "Oiwa?" "!" "You didn't cross over!" "I curse you!" "lemon!" "Damn you!" "lemon!" "Oume!" "Is something the matter?" "!" "Master Tamiya!" "Master Tamiya!" "You too, Kohei?" "!" "Give me the medicine!" "Is this Oiwa's curse?" "A tragedy, on a night that seemed to last an eternity." "However, this was merely the beginning of Oiwa's curse." "What was to follow will be revealed in the next act." "Sora wo umeru hana no iro" "Utsuri ni kerina waga koi" "Yagate subete ga sugisaru atomo" "Anata dake wo omou" "Itsuka haruno yuumagure" "Hajimete kuchizuke shita" "Maboroshi no youna kaori no nakade" "Anata dake wo omou" "Anata no muneni kono mi wo makase" "Watashi wa shinde yukou"