Throne of Blood (1957)

Toshirô Mifune: Taketoki Washizu

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• [Morning at Cobweb castle. Washizu, armed, dozes, seated] 

  Asaji attendant : My Lady!

  [Washizu wakes with a start and looks around, bewildered. He strides into Lady Washizu's quarters, almost bumping into two frightened female attendants. He sees Lady Washizu kneeling, staring blankly out at nothing, nervously washing her hands in a bowl] 

  Lady Asaji Washizu : Will it never be gone? The blood. I wash and wash, yet the blood remains - and the smell! Will my hands never again be clean?

  Taketori Washizu : Asaji!

  Lady Asaji Washizu : There is still blood. My hands. Why do they not become clean? I wash and wash, stilll they smell of blood.

  Taketori Washizu : Asaji!

• Taketori Washizu : I am terribly drunk...

• Taketori Washizu : Miki would never speak of it. He is my best friend.

  Lady Asaji Washizu : He is ambitious. Children kill their parents for less. This is a wicked world. To save yourself you often first must kill. It is possible that Miki has already betrayed you. I fear this.

• Taketori Washizu : Cowards! I see it now! You'll slay me and offer my head when you surrender!

• [Washizu glances up from his drink and suddenly pales. He finds the ghost of Miki sitting there, staring blankly at his bowl of rice] 

  Taketori Washizu : There he is again!

  [Hurling his cup to the floor, Washizu staggers backwards into the corner of the room, paralysed with fear. Breathing heavily, he snatches his sword, and advances towards the spirit] 

  Taketori Washizu : If you hate me, why not draw your sword?

  [He charges at the seemingly empty space, swiping again and again with his sword] 

• Yoshiaki Miki : My only wish would be a long, quiet sleep.

  Taketori Washizu : I feel I am already sleeping and have had a frightening dream. What that witch or spirit said, that is what I dream of.

  Yoshiaki Miki : We dream of what we wish.

• Taketori Washizu : His Lordship trust me more than anyone else. And that is why he has given me the honor of leading the attack.

  Lady Asaji Washizu : Where arrows will find you not only from the front but from the rear.

• Old Samurai Entertainer : [singing]  All of you wicked, listen while I tell of a man, vain, Guileful, vile, Who through ambitious, insolent, Could not escape his punishment.

  Taketori Washizu : Stop the dance!

• Taketori Washizu : Get my horse! Get my horse!