The Lost Child- Campfire Confessional Scene

Yojiro a retired samurai tells a tale over a campfire

Transcript

63. ATSUKO You're so tender with her
64. ATSUKO It seems caring for a child comes as naturally to you as swordplay.
65. YOJIRO She is unusually well behaved. And, I have some experience with children.
66. ATSUKO Experience?
72. YOJIRO I was an orphan.
73. YOJIRO I spent my youth in the streets of Kyoto. I took it upon myself to feed and protect the younger ones.
80. ATSUKO You were an orphan? But..how..?
87. YOJIRO How did I become a samurai and master swordsman in one of the most powerful houses in the Shogunate?
90. YOJIRO Like all boys,
91. YOJIRO we‘d often play swordsman in the streets.
92. YOJIRO Weʼd fashion swords
93. from bamboo
94. YOJIRO and tree
95. YOJIRO branches.
96. YOJIRO I was 5 years old
97. YOJIRO when I discovered that I could
98. YOJIRO see
99. YOJIRO between the moments.
100. YOJIRO I could predict my opponent's movements
101. YOJIRO and thus move and strike
102. YOJIRO before they could even react.
104. YOJIRO When I was 7
105. YOJIRO I discovered I could earn money
106. YOJIRO by challenging the older boys to duels.
107. YOJIRO When I was 15
108. YOJIRO I was going to Sake houses
109. YOJIRO and market places and challenging adults
110. YOJIRO winning yen, food, whatever i could to keep the neighborhood kids fed.
113. YOJIRO Unfortunately
114. YOJIRO I earned a reputation.
115. YOJIRO One day, a very rich
116. YOJIRO very arrogant young samurai in training challenged me
117. YOJIRO offering a bag of gold.
118. YOJIRO When I beat him, he became enraged
119. YOJIRO dropped his stick
120. YOJIRO pulled his sword
121. YOJIRO and attacked.
129. YOJIRO I easily disarmed him broke his nose and shattered his collar bone.
130. YOJIRO His father, a high-ranking noble
131. YOJIRO demanded that I be put to death.
132. YOJIRO However, The young man's sensei, Grandmaster Shogo Miyagi offered an alternative.
133. YOJIRO I was to
134. YOJIRO become his apprentice.
136. YOJIRO I cooked his meals, laundered his clothes
137. YOJIRO cleaned his dojo and learned the way of the sword.
144. YOJIRO When I was 18, he presented me with these swords
145. YOJIRO And told me there was nothing more he could teach me.
146. YOJIRO For the next 45 years, they were my only friends.
147. YOJIRO I dedicated my life to instructing soldiers in the way of the sword.
148. YOJIRO Then came the Meiji restoration. I saw the country change around me. Much of it for the better.
149. YOJIRO But in this world swords are banned.
150. YOJIRO I was an orphan once again.
152. YOJIRO I concealed my swords and wandered, a masterless Ronin.
153. YOJIRO Itʼs a terrible thing
154. YOJIRO to have no purpose.
155. YOJIRO Then, one day
156. YOJIRO I stumbled into that restaurant. Iʼve been there ever since.
157. YOJIRO That is my place in this new world.
158. YOJIRO Serving Katsudon,
159. YOJIRO Donkatsu and Udon.
160. YOJIRO This is why I tell you to abandon this way of life.
161. YOJIRO It will do nothing but bring you pain, and then leave you with heartache...