"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!" ")" "It is said that Oiwa of Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan cursed the houses of Ito and Tamiya until neither had any remaining descendants." "However, the tradition that is observed at Oiwa's shrine differs greatly from the play itself." "The wife of Tamiya lemon, Oiwa, was well known for being a hard worker, and she prayed daily at the shrine on her family's estate." "Impressed by her behaviour, neighbors followed her example, praying here to this very day." "The real Oiwa that actually existed was the model of a virtuous woman." "Or perhaps, betrayed by her husband, she had in death become a vengeful ghost that cursed others." "I was Tsuruya Nanboku the Fourth." "Let us continue the story of Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan." "I curse you, lemon!" "Act Three" "Due to Oiwa's curse, the House of Ito was ruined." "No eels, huh?" "Huh?" "What's this?" "A comb?" "Well, I guess it wasn't a complete waste after all." "Honestly, when did things become so troublesome?" "lemon," "I'm going to pretend that you're dead." "I'm sorry I've been a cause for such worry." "Look." "I've even prepared a wooden epitaph to mark your passing." "It's a strange feeling to look at one's own epitaph." "Well, take care of yourself." "Master Tamiya." "Naosuke?" "It's been a long time." "I heard what happened." "Sounds like you outdid yourself this time." "Thought so." "You really are a wicked one." "You can chop off my head, I'll keep coming back." "There was no doubt lemon was an evil man, having killed his father-in-law, Oiwa's father, as well as his servant Kohei." "However, it was Ito Kihei who had given Oiwa the poison." "lemon had merely acted as an accomplice." "Looks like it's going to rain." "I'm off." "Nice talking with you." "The Tamiya bloodline and the Ito bloodline shall be slain." "Damn you!" "I curse you!" "Go to the nether world!" "Give me the medicine!" "Is this a curse?" "!" "Damn!" "lemon!" "Elsewhere, Oiwa's sister Osode had yet to realize that the one who had killed Yomoshichi was none other than Naosuke." "Fooled by his offer to help find her fiance's killer, they lived together pretending to be husband and wife." "Poor Osode was still unaware of Oiwa's death." "Osode." "Oh, the cloth trader." "Would you mind washing this kimono while you're at it?" "Where did you get that from?" "From a corpse nailed to a door, found floating down river." "You got it off a corpse?" "!" "I'm just joking." "I'll pick it up later." "Got rained out." "I'm back earlier than planned." "Oh, right." "I didn't catch any eels, but I found this, and thought it'd look good on you." "That comb belongs to my sister Oiwa!" "What?" "!" "I remember it well." "She showed it to me once, promising to give it to me one day." "Wait for me!" "Oh, here." "It's beautiful." " Let me have it, sister!" " Let me have it, sister!" " No." "No." "Well, you might as well keep it." "Perhaps if we were blood sisters, but I'm only her adopted kin." "Take it back tomorrow to the Yotsuya family." "I can't show my face to sister Oiwa now, living like this." "Why should I return it for nothing?" "Something the matter?" "Must've seen a ghost." "It's nothing." "That's good timing." "Hey, come this way!" "Yes?" "Come here a second." "Sure." "Excuse the intrusion." "Well, if it isn't Takuetsu from Asakusa." "Yes, it's been a while, Naosuke and Lady Osode." "That comb!" "That belongs to Oiwa!" "From the Yotsuya family." "What?" "You know of my sister Oiwa?" "I certainly do." "I witnessed that whole gruesome scene with my own eyes." "Did something happen to her?" "Well..." "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!" "She might as well have been killed by lemon." "Osode, get a hold of yourself." "We must avenge Oiwa's death!" "Where has lemon gone?" "Actually, I have no idea where he's gone." "That's all I have to say." "Now, if you'll excuse me." "As it stands, the only one that can claim revenge for Oiwa is you, Osode." "Just you." "You're not going to help me?" "Well, we're only pretending to be married." "If we were actually married, your revenge would be my revenge." "What if we were to be married?" "Would you help me avenge her death?" "Only if we share the same bed, like a real couple." "All right." "Starting tonight." "That's good to hear." "So you finally agree." "You have no idea how long I've waited for this day." "lemon's mother, Okuma, after the House of Asano was dissolved, defected to serve under their adversaries, the House of Kira." "And she became the second wife of Hotoke Magobei," "Kobotoke Kohei's father." " Give me a break!" " Kohei's son, Jiroukichi," " Give me a break!" " Kohei's son, Jiroukichi, to whom she had no blood ties, was treated very cruelly every day by Okuma." "Don't tell me this is all the clams you sold today!" "I'm sorry!" "I'm sorry!" "Get back out there and sell more clams while it's light out." "If father were here..." "When he comes back...!" "Your father, Kobotoke Kohei, died a long time ago and is never coming back!" "Sell as much as I told you to or else don't expect any dinner!" "What're you doing?" "You're scaring me." "The one who killed me is..." "Tamiya lemon!" "The man who passed by Naosuke and Osode's house was Osode's fiancee, who Naosuke believed he had murdered." "It was Sato Yomoshichi." "Lady Oiwa!" "Whose house is this?" "Excuse me." "Forgive my intrusion." "Something strange happened outside your house." "Hello?" "Is anyone home?" "Keep it down!" "What's with you barging into a stranger's house like that?" "Who are you, anyway?" "It's a ghost!" "You're Naosuke!" "That voice." "That voice is...!" "It can't be!" "Osode!" "Yomoshichi!" "You're alive!" "You were alive all this time." "Yes, I'm certainly not a ghost." "Weren't you killed in an abandoned paddy in Asakusa?" "I had to deliver a secret document, so I switched clothes with Okuda Shouzaburou and went to Ako." "What?" "Yomoshichi!" "Your face!" "How cruel!" "I got the wrong guy." "Later, I heard Shouzaburou went missing and I was a little worried." "By the way, what are you two doing here together?" "A lot has happened." "In fact, Osode and I are now a happily married couple." "Wh-What?" "!" "That's crazy!" "Osode, tell me he's lying!" "I'm afraid it's true." "We haven't broken off our engagement!" "You're too late!" "Get over her." "Osode's my woman now." "You insolent bastard!" "I won't forgive you!" "We made a promise that we have to fulfill as husband and wife." "Isn't that right, Osode?" "Osode." "Which one of us do you choose?" "Myself or Naosuke?" "Go on, Osode." "Tell him!" "Whatever happens, I need you to trust me." "Yomoshichi," "I must talk to you." "Please come into the back with me." "Right." "Damn it!" "I'll just have to get him again!" "Now, now." "Just be patient." "You're planning on siding with Yomoshichi, aren't you?" "!" "What are you talking about?" "You and I are a real couple now." "Until we've killed lemon, I'll never leave your side." "It's not convenient for me as well, having him here." "Letting him live can be troublesome." "Then give Yomoshichi some sake and get him drunk." "When I turn off the lantern, you appear from behind the wooden panel." "I'll quietly sneak up and in one move..." "Where's Naosuke?" "I sent him out to buy some sake." "I see." "Then when he gets back here..." "Don't underestimate Naosuke." "I'll give him sake and make sure he's drunk." "Right." "The signal is when the light of the lantern goes out." "You appear through the panel." "I'll strike him down in one move." "I understand." "Better be dead this time." "What?" "!" "Naosuke!" "You!" "Then, who'd I just...?" "Osode!" "Osode!" "Osode!" "Osode!" "Why?" "!" "Why did it end up this way?" "!" "Yomoshichi," "I'm very sorry." "Naosuke, carry out our promise." "Get lemon." "Osode!" "Osode!" "No." "It can't be." "No way." "Naosuke!" "I'm a good-for-nothing lowlife." "I was the one who killed Shouzaburou." "I mistook him for you." "But none of that matters anymore." "I realized that after reading Osode's birth certificate." "Osode's real father was Motomiya Sandayu, who's also my own father." "Osode and I were blood siblings, but were raised separately." "I always wondered why a servant like me would fall in love with her." "Now I understand why." "Yomoshichi, take my place and kill Tamiya lemon for Osode." "Get him." "Oiwa's sister, Osode, had chosen to end her life in order to be released from her cruel fate." "Is destiny something that cannot be controlled?" "However, there is one man in our story that continues to evade the clutches of fate." "The curse of Oiwa has yet to end." "The destiny that awaits lemon is too terrifying to even repeat." "The story will continue 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"