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(Wanting you to just be near,
to feel your breath upon my ear)
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(Wishing you would call my name,
'Cause only you can light the flame)
3
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Constantly searching,
still can't find
4
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Ever illusive peace of mind
5
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Sometimes it's near,
but slips away
6
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And I'm faced with another day
7
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Of wanting you...
(to feel your breath upon my ear)
8
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...to just be near
('Cause only you can light the flame)
9
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Of wishing you...
(to feel your breath upon my ear)
10
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...would call my name,
to feel your breath upon my ear
11
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Of wanting you...wishing you...
(to feel your breath upon my ear)
12
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Call my name, 'cause only
you can light the flame
13
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Oh, jeez.
I can't tell right from left in this.
14
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Shouldn't we turn back?
15
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God, what is with these guys?!
16
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You sure it's around here?
17
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With long ears like mine,
you hear rumors.
18
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It's definitely around here.
19
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I think it's somewhere in this area.
20
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Come on, let's head back!
21
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How annoying. If you want
to head back, be our guest.
22
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Little boy.
23
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Hmm? You smell that?
24
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It's this way.
25
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Right on target.
26
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What the...?!
27
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That's funny.
28
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Mataichi? Ogin?!
29
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- These are...
- DELICIOUS!
30
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They taste just like
the ones at Kyogokutei!
31
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It even makes me cry!
32
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- Is it tasty?
- Tasty?
33
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I'm Shiratama,
this inn's eye-candy.
34
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And I'm Kuromame.
Same job.
35
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Shiratama and Kuromame.
36
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Those names sound familiar.
37
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YOU TWO?!
38
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Granny White Hermit...
39
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...and Granny Black Hermit!
40
00:03:58,771 --> 00:04:00,069
We've been tricked.
41
00:04:00,540 --> 00:04:03,033
We have a teensy favor
to ask of you.
42
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I want you to do the job
since you ate our food.
43
00:04:07,980 --> 00:04:10,172
But first, about that young man...
44
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Yes, about him.
45
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Help...me.
46
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Well?
47
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Well, he'll be lucky
to live through the night.
48
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Feed him something
that'll give him strength.
49
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That might save his life.
50
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What did you say?!
51
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You don't remember anything
of your last few days here?
52
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No.
53
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At the Ikomaya shop near Kyo Bridge,
I retired from work to write riddles.
54
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Then I decided I wanted to write
a book of 100 ghost stories.
55
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Ah. Ghost stories, you say?
56
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Your name is
Momosuke Yamaoka, correct?
57
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Since you seem to have saved me,
I guess I should thank you.
58
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I'm fine now.
59
00:06:32,792 --> 00:06:35,159
Don't strain yourself.
60
00:06:37,663 --> 00:06:41,998
I think you may have experienced
something truly terrifying.
61
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I've heard that people
who experience...
62
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terrifying things
can lose their memory of it.
63
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What's wrong?!
64
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The... The horse!
65
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Heh, take a closer look, please.
66
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This is Hayate, a horse
my master loved very much.
67
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That reminds me. I want to
thank him for his hospitality.
68
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Did I say something wrong?
69
00:07:38,913 --> 00:07:43,482
Oh, no. It's just the master
isn't home right now.
70
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Oh. Well, perhaps his wife, then.
71
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The mistress passed away.
72
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Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
73
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Is anybody there?!
74
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My... My stomach!
75
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What's wrong?!
76
00:08:49,929 --> 00:08:51,795
My... My stomach suddenly...
77
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I'll call the foreman!
78
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There... There's a horse!
79
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A pitch-black horse...
80
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There are no horses
here in the mansion, sir.
81
00:09:02,093 --> 00:09:04,603
Trouble!
The painting of Hayate...
82
00:09:04,603 --> 00:09:05,771
What?!
83
00:09:12,918 --> 00:09:15,285
What's all this uproar
in the middle of the night?!
84
00:09:15,855 --> 00:09:17,346
Hayate is...
85
00:09:19,291 --> 00:09:21,152
Wh-What on earth?!
86
00:09:21,152 --> 00:09:23,653
It's a ghost. Hayate's ghost!
87
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Don't be absurd!
88
00:09:43,816 --> 00:09:46,273
What the...?
My stomach's all right now.
89
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L- Look!
90
00:09:50,656 --> 00:09:54,423
Did it break out?
The horse in the painting?
91
00:09:57,296 --> 00:09:59,753
About the night I was brought here...
92
00:09:59,753 --> 00:10:03,133
What did I eat that night?
93
00:10:03,536 --> 00:10:05,063
It... It was...
94
00:10:05,063 --> 00:10:07,005
Please tell me!
95
00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,332
It was horse meat.
96
00:10:10,743 --> 00:10:13,463
Animal meat?! Horse?
97
00:10:13,463 --> 00:10:16,403
We had no choice.
98
00:10:16,403 --> 00:10:19,873
The doctor said we needed to
give you something nutritious.
99
00:10:19,873 --> 00:10:22,073
You killed a horse for my sake?
100
00:10:22,073 --> 00:10:25,285
Oh, no. We had a horse
who died by accident, so...
101
00:10:28,294 --> 00:10:30,286
Hmm? Something wrong?
102
00:10:30,763 --> 00:10:33,289
There's the story of "Salty Choji."
103
00:10:34,366 --> 00:10:37,254
There was a man named Choji
who raised horses.
104
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A horse he'd raised died...
105
00:10:39,023 --> 00:10:42,893
so he put miso and salt
on its meat and ate it.
106
00:10:42,893 --> 00:10:46,032
Then, one night,
the ghost of the horse appeared...
107
00:10:46,032 --> 00:10:48,373
invaded Choji's body
through his mouth...
108
00:10:48,373 --> 00:10:50,815
and then ran wild in his stomach,
so the story goes.
109
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It went on for 100 days.
110
00:10:55,112 --> 00:10:58,712
Momosuke, you're saying
the pain in your stomach...
111
00:10:58,712 --> 00:11:01,113
comes from being
cursed by a horse?
112
00:11:01,113 --> 00:11:03,493
A curse from a horse, you say?
113
00:11:04,930 --> 00:11:07,253
Doctor! You've come again?
114
00:11:07,253 --> 00:11:11,493
Horses escaping from paintings,
horse curses...
115
00:11:11,493 --> 00:11:13,592
Hmpf! You people
are so superstitious!
116
00:11:13,592 --> 00:11:15,463
But, Doctor...
117
00:11:15,463 --> 00:11:18,464
Rather than that,
I have medicines to try.
118
00:11:18,464 --> 00:11:19,833
Have him take them.
119
00:11:19,833 --> 00:11:22,173
Yes, sir.
120
00:11:22,173 --> 00:11:26,380
Is that clear? Be sure to
take them before he sleeps.
121
00:11:27,286 --> 00:11:28,618
Yes, sir.
122
00:11:30,789 --> 00:11:32,087
Master.
123
00:11:32,658 --> 00:11:36,413
Oh... meat!
I want to have some meat!
124
00:11:36,413 --> 00:11:38,583
But, Master, any more and...
125
00:11:38,583 --> 00:11:41,353
The meat I had that one time...
126
00:11:41,353 --> 00:11:43,302
I want to eat more!
127
00:11:44,470 --> 00:11:48,805
Monkey! This time, bring me
the flesh of a monkey to eat!
128
00:11:58,150 --> 00:11:59,673
Tr- Trouble!
129
00:11:59,673 --> 00:12:01,373
Now what are you yelling about?
130
00:12:01,373 --> 00:12:04,213
A... A girl's shown up here!
131
00:12:04,213 --> 00:12:06,583
She says her name is Osan.
132
00:12:06,583 --> 00:12:10,252
What?! The master's daughter?!
Where is she?!
133
00:12:10,252 --> 00:12:11,992
The main hall.
134
00:12:25,577 --> 00:12:27,773
What should we do?
135
00:12:44,263 --> 00:12:48,701
Again. The ghost of Hayate
is running wild again!
136
00:13:11,290 --> 00:13:14,556
It hurts.
My stomach hurts so much.
137
00:13:17,463 --> 00:13:18,726
Stop, please!
138
00:13:20,766 --> 00:13:22,453
If you keep burning that...
139
00:13:22,453 --> 00:13:24,960
Hayate will never stop
running wild in your stomach!
140
00:13:26,538 --> 00:13:28,092
Master! What?!
141
00:13:28,092 --> 00:13:31,544
Master?
Didn't you say he wasn't here?
142
00:13:40,419 --> 00:13:41,751
It's coming!
143
00:13:42,354 --> 00:13:45,222
No, it can't be!
144
00:13:51,130 --> 00:13:52,683
H- Help me!
145
00:13:52,683 --> 00:13:53,961
Master!
146
00:13:56,301 --> 00:13:57,963
Help me!
147
00:14:05,010 --> 00:14:07,663
You ate horse meat, too,
didn't you?
148
00:14:07,663 --> 00:14:09,173
My medicine!
149
00:14:09,173 --> 00:14:14,403
Medicine won't work.
You have the curse of "Salty Choji."
150
00:14:14,403 --> 00:14:16,183
Is there nothing we can do?
151
00:14:17,823 --> 00:14:20,190
Help me, please!
152
00:14:21,927 --> 00:14:24,692
Please, tell me
what happened here.
153
00:14:25,631 --> 00:14:28,726
It all started 12 years ago.
154
00:14:29,434 --> 00:14:33,763
The master had married
into the household...
155
00:14:33,763 --> 00:14:38,107
and with the birth of Miss Osan,
he was very happy.
156
00:14:38,811 --> 00:14:40,834
Then, one day...
157
00:14:40,834 --> 00:14:45,643
we were attacked by a gang of bandits
called the "Mishima Night Riders"...
158
00:14:45,643 --> 00:14:47,620
led by a man named Hyakki-maru.
159
00:14:55,861 --> 00:14:56,954
Osan!
160
00:15:07,039 --> 00:15:09,863
By a stroke of luck,
the master fell into a cave...
161
00:15:09,863 --> 00:15:12,364
on the way down
and was saved.
162
00:15:12,364 --> 00:15:15,133
That's what happened?
163
00:15:15,133 --> 00:15:20,573
After that, the master changed.
164
00:15:20,573 --> 00:15:24,074
He's like a different man now.
165
00:15:24,074 --> 00:15:25,513
And the girl?
166
00:15:25,513 --> 00:15:28,119
She'd disappeared.
But now...
167
00:15:31,530 --> 00:15:34,125
Master! Master!
168
00:15:36,702 --> 00:15:37,892
What's wrong?
169
00:15:37,892 --> 00:15:41,663
It's the talisman-selling exorcist
everyone in town's been talking about.
170
00:15:41,663 --> 00:15:44,507
I thought I'd have him
come and perform an exorcism.
171
00:15:52,551 --> 00:15:57,216
If this cures his illness,
there's no need for doctors anymore.
172
00:16:10,168 --> 00:16:11,363
It hurts!
173
00:16:16,708 --> 00:16:20,736
It's happening again!
Help me!
174
00:16:21,213 --> 00:16:25,742
There is only one way to save you
from the curse of Salty Choji.
175
00:16:26,318 --> 00:16:28,313
Wh-What is it?
176
00:16:28,313 --> 00:16:32,412
Are you hiding an evil deed
that you've done?
177
00:16:32,412 --> 00:16:36,383
Tell me every bad thing
you've done that you're hiding!
178
00:16:36,383 --> 00:16:39,323
E- Even if you ask me that...
179
00:16:39,323 --> 00:16:42,323
You will tell me, won't you, please?
180
00:16:42,323 --> 00:16:45,824
But I don't remember!
181
00:16:45,824 --> 00:16:49,432
Tell him!
Then you'll be saved!
182
00:16:49,432 --> 00:16:51,163
But I don't remember!
183
00:16:51,163 --> 00:16:53,263
Then you shall die.
184
00:16:53,263 --> 00:16:55,873
No, please! Help me!
185
00:17:00,152 --> 00:17:01,711
Isn't there anything you can do?
186
00:17:03,755 --> 00:17:07,590
Help... Help me!
187
00:17:21,073 --> 00:17:24,863
Confessing his evil deeds
could have saved him, but...
188
00:17:24,863 --> 00:17:26,572
Poor fellow.
189
00:17:27,779 --> 00:17:29,805
Well? What about you?
190
00:17:37,622 --> 00:17:41,491
I... I'm not really Chojiro.
191
00:17:41,860 --> 00:17:44,783
I'm Hyakki-maru of the Night Riders!
192
00:17:44,783 --> 00:17:46,723
You're not the master?!
193
00:17:46,723 --> 00:17:48,792
You switched when
you fell in the cave, didn't you?
194
00:17:48,792 --> 00:17:50,735
But that's impossible!
195
00:17:51,269 --> 00:17:54,733
Chojiro was my twin brother.
196
00:17:54,733 --> 00:17:58,502
We sent him here
to be our inside man.
197
00:17:58,502 --> 00:18:00,464
But he betrayed us!
198
00:18:00,464 --> 00:18:03,533
He was overwhelmed
by the happy life he found here!
199
00:18:03,533 --> 00:18:05,881
That's why we decided
to kill everyone here.
200
00:18:06,618 --> 00:18:08,773
No...
201
00:18:08,773 --> 00:18:13,225
That cave! If we just hadn't
fallen into that cave!
202
00:18:19,765 --> 00:18:22,701
You're planning to die here?
203
00:18:24,169 --> 00:18:27,063
Even though I've finally
found happiness.
204
00:18:27,063 --> 00:18:30,338
I'm not going to die.
Not in a place like this!
205
00:18:33,445 --> 00:18:35,633
You ate Hayate, didn't you?
206
00:18:35,633 --> 00:18:37,673
It was delicious.
207
00:18:37,673 --> 00:18:40,643
I never forgot how it tasted,
and I've tried all different kinds of meat.
208
00:18:40,643 --> 00:18:42,113
That's the reason.
209
00:18:42,113 --> 00:18:44,843
But nothing can compare
to the flavor of that meat.
210
00:18:44,843 --> 00:18:47,143
I find that story strange.
211
00:18:47,143 --> 00:18:51,460
I thought the horse's body
was found below the cave.
212
00:18:52,397 --> 00:18:56,926
So, what exactly did you eat
to keep yourself alive?
213
00:19:00,772 --> 00:19:02,493
What... What are you saying I did?!
214
00:19:02,493 --> 00:19:05,403
What you devoured was
the last remnant...
215
00:19:05,403 --> 00:19:07,936
of human conscience
within your soul.
216
00:19:20,125 --> 00:19:21,821
I... I...
217
00:19:23,361 --> 00:19:25,762
Help me, please!
218
00:19:47,752 --> 00:19:50,342
As we travel down the path of life,
we are confronted by choices.
219
00:19:50,342 --> 00:19:53,283
Step off the path of righteousness and
you become trapped in the depths of sin.
220
00:19:53,283 --> 00:19:56,382
In the end, this transient world
is but a dream.
221
00:19:56,382 --> 00:19:58,923
Evil and ambition
scatter in the darkness...
222
00:19:58,923 --> 00:20:02,883
leaving behind dubious rumors
to fly in public.
223
00:20:02,883 --> 00:20:04,597
What the...?
224
00:20:05,303 --> 00:20:07,465
This... This is...
225
00:20:22,220 --> 00:20:24,689
Save me, please!
226
00:20:42,407 --> 00:20:45,309
To the next world, we commit Thee.
227
00:20:54,386 --> 00:20:55,547
You're...
228
00:20:57,422 --> 00:21:01,613
Don't you think your true calling
is to be an actor, Mr. Author?
229
00:21:01,613 --> 00:21:05,483
Aw, come on, Nagamimi.
You know that's not true.
230
00:21:05,483 --> 00:21:06,853
Who are you people?
231
00:21:06,853 --> 00:21:12,363
The real Osan lost her memory
after falling from the cliff.
232
00:21:12,363 --> 00:21:16,363
She lives in an Edo tenement now,
in the home of Tokujiro Soroban.
233
00:21:16,363 --> 00:21:18,602
How do you know all this?
234
00:21:18,602 --> 00:21:22,772
Never mind that.
In the morning, go fetch her.
235
00:21:22,772 --> 00:21:24,673
Thank you so much.
236
00:21:24,673 --> 00:21:27,342
You won't have to kill
any more animals now.
237
00:21:27,342 --> 00:21:30,813
And yet...
when the bandits attacked...
238
00:21:30,813 --> 00:21:33,783
I could do nothing to help the master.
239
00:21:33,783 --> 00:21:37,524
And all the things
I killed to feed that villain!
240
00:21:38,029 --> 00:21:43,730
Forget that. Go save Miss Osan,
then protect this home, all right?
241
00:21:50,408 --> 00:21:53,708
Do you have the intention of
becoming a kabuki actor?
242
00:22:02,254 --> 00:22:03,412
The kid...
243
00:22:03,412 --> 00:22:05,282
...was pretty good,
don't you think?
244
00:22:05,282 --> 00:22:09,284
I hope he has a sweet tooth.
245
00:22:14,499 --> 00:22:20,598
Wind chimes whisper
soft and sweet
246
00:22:21,973 --> 00:22:28,038
Though there's not
a hint of a breeze
247
00:22:29,014 --> 00:22:34,843
Moonlight dancing
on the garden walk
248
00:22:34,843 --> 00:22:41,418
As it gently drifts
through the trees
249
00:22:42,861 --> 00:22:48,823
Romance takes flight
on this perfect night
250
00:22:48,823 --> 00:22:55,467
While all of the world
lays sleeping
251
00:22:56,308 --> 00:23:05,775
Find us here as we feel
the moment of love
252
00:23:07,118 --> 00:23:10,523
Draw near
253
00:23:10,523 --> 00:23:17,582
Dream, sleep,
with your hand in mine
254
00:23:17,582 --> 00:23:23,535
Underneath a blanket of stars
255
00:23:25,737 --> 00:23:30,993
Song birds singing
in a distant glade
256
00:23:30,993 --> 00:23:39,850
As we share
the warmth of the dawn
257
00:23:50,328 --> 00:23:52,853
Evil and ambition
scatter in the darkness...
258
00:23:52,853 --> 00:23:56,453
leaving behind dubious rumors
to fly in public.
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A troupe of puppeteers
called Shibaemon.
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A tanuki (raccoon dog)
masquerading as a human.
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A murderous monster or a specter?
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Next time, on Natsuhiko Kyogoku's
"Requiem From the Darkness:"
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Shibaemon the Raccoon Dog.
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To the next world, we commit Thee!