Samurai Drama Board

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Transcript

33. Dialog ATSUKO: You're so tender with her.
34. Dialog ATSUKO: It seems caring for a child comes as naturally to you as swordplay.
35. Dialog YOJIRO: She is unusually well-behaved.
36. Dialog YOJIRO: And, I have some experience with children.
37. Dialog ATSUKO: Experience?
38. Dialog ATSUKO: Experience?
40. Dialog YOJIRO: I was an orphan.
41. Dialog YOJIRO: I spent my youth in the streets of Kyoto.
42. Dialog YOJIRO: I took it upon myself...
43. Dialog YOJIRO: ... to protect the younger ones.
45. Dialog ATSUKO: You were an orphan?
46. Dialog ATSUKO: But... how...?
49. Dialog YOJIRO: How did I become a samurai...
50. Dialog YOJIRO: ... and master swordsman in one of the most powerful houses in the Shogunate?
51. Dialog YOJIRO: Like all boys...
52. Dialog YOJIRO: ... we'd often play swordsman in the streets.
53. Dialog YOJIRO: We'd fashion swords from bamboo and tree branches.
54. Dialog YOJIRO: I was 5 years old when I discovered that I could see between the moments.
55. Dialog YOJIRO: I could predict my opponent's movements...
56. Dialog YOJIRO: ... and thus move and strike before they could even react.
57. Dialog YOJIRO: When I was 7, I discovered I could easily earn money by challenging the older boys to duels.
58. Dialog YOJIRO: When I was 15, I was going to Sake houses and market places and challenging adults...
59. Dialog YOJIRO: ... winning yen, food,...
60. Dialog YOJIRO: ... whatever I could to keep the neighborhood kids fed.
61. Dialog YOJIRO: Unfortunately, I earned a reputation.
62. Dialog YOJIRO: One day, a very rich, very arrogant young samurai in training challenged me, offering a bag of gold.
63. Dialog YOJIRO: When I beat him, he became enraged, dropped his stick, pulled his sword, and attacked.
69. Dialog YOJIRO: I easily disarmed him, broke his nose...
70. Dialog YOJIRO: ... and shattered his collar bone.
71. Dialog YOJIRO: His father, a high-ranking noble, demanded that I be put to death.
72. Dialog YOJIRO: However, the young man's sensei...
73. Dialog YOJIRO: ... Grandmaster Shogo Miyagi offered an alternative.
74. Dialog YOJIRO: I was to become his apprentice.
75. Dialog YOJIRO: I cooked his meals, laundered his clothes, cleaned his dojo, and learned the way of the sword.
76. Dialog YOJIRO: When I was 18, he presented me with these swords,...
77. Dialog YOJIRO: ... and told me there was nothing more he could teach me. For the next 45 years, they were my only friends.
78. Dialog YOJIRO: I dedicated my life to instructing soldiers in the way of the sword.
79. Dialog YOJIRO: Then came the Meiji restoration.
80. Dialog YOJIRO: I saw the country change around me. Much of it for the better. But in this world,...
81. Dialog YOJIRO: ... swords are banned.
83. Dialog YOJIRO: I was an orphan once again.
84. Dialog YOJIRO: I concealed my swords and wandered, a master-less Ronin.
85. Dialog YOJIRO: It's a terrible thing,...
86. Dialog YOJIRO: ... to have no purpose.
87. Dialog YOJIRO: Then, one day I stumbled into that restaurant. I've been there ever since.
88. Dialog YOJIRO: That is my place in this new world. Serving Katsudon, Donkatsu, and Udon.
89. Dialog YOJIRO: This is why I tell you to abandon this way of life. It will do nothing but bring you pain,...
90. Dialog YOJIRO: ... and then leave you with heartache...