Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)

Kaoru Yachigusa: Otsu

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• Otsu : As I was gazing at you, Takezo-san, bound and hanging, I saw that I too was bound by an unseen rope. And I could not cut the rope by myself. Takezo-san, I cannot go back. Take me with you.

  Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo) : [choking back sobs]  Do you hate me?

  Otsu : Once. But now...

• Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo) : [surprised at Otsu's rescue of him]  Otsu, why?

  Otsu : Don't ask. Let's run. They'll kill us on sight!

• Otsu : What would I do if you discarded me? I'm alone. All alone in this world.

  Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo) : Me too.

  Otsu : Then you must know how I feel.

  Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo) : But I have not power to make you happy.

  Otsu : Takezo, both of us are lonely.

• Otsu : Priest Takuan. Look at yourself.

  Takuan Osho : [naked, wearing only a loincloth]  "Throughout the heavens and earth, I alone am noble."

  Otsu : [giggles]  Drink, my newborn Buddha!

  Takuan Osho : Find me a drying pole instead. I washed my only clothes.

  Otsu : What will you do in the meantime?

  Takuan Osho : I'll stay like this.

  Otsu : Please! It's unbecoming.

  Takuan Osho : What do you mean? Human beings are born naked.

• Otsu : A house without love is a living death.

• Otsu : I can't believe this. I can't trust anyone. Oh, if only I had great strength!

• Otsu : I will follow even beyond the Great Seas. Take me with you. I will not hinder you. Take me. Take me. If I trouble you, leave me in the wilderness, or anywhere you like. I shall be obedient. But take me with you.

• Otsu : Take me with you where you go.

  Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo) : One does not take a woman along on a journey of training.