1 00:00:35,502 --> 00:00:44,206 (Wanting you to just be near, to feel your breath upon my ear) 2 00:00:44,277 --> 00:00:53,242 (Wishing you would call my name, 'Cause only you can light the flame) 3 00:00:53,319 --> 00:01:00,452 Constantly searching, still can't find 4 00:01:02,729 --> 00:01:08,725 Ever illusive peace of mind 5 00:01:10,904 --> 00:01:19,471 Sometimes it's near, but slips away 6 00:01:19,546 --> 00:01:26,110 And I'm faced with another day 7 00:01:27,353 --> 00:01:33,223 Of wanting you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 8 00:01:33,293 --> 00:01:37,662 ...to just be near ('Cause only you can light the flame) 9 00:01:37,730 --> 00:01:41,791 Of wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 10 00:01:41,868 --> 00:01:46,362 ...would call my name, to feel your breath upon my ear 11 00:01:46,439 --> 00:01:50,842 Of wanting you...wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 12 00:01:50,910 --> 00:01:58,681 Call my name, 'cause only you can light the flame 13 00:02:19,606 --> 00:02:24,737 Oh, jeez. I can't tell right from left in this. 14 00:02:24,811 --> 00:02:26,972 Shouldn't we turn back? 15 00:02:33,786 --> 00:02:35,549 God, what is with these guys?! 16 00:02:35,622 --> 00:02:38,557 You sure it's around here? 17 00:02:38,625 --> 00:02:41,093 With long ears like mine, you hear rumors. 18 00:02:41,161 --> 00:02:42,560 It's definitely around here. 19 00:02:42,629 --> 00:02:45,826 I think it's somewhere in this area. 20 00:02:48,568 --> 00:02:50,798 Come on, let's head back! 21 00:02:52,305 --> 00:02:56,833 How annoying. If you want to head back, be our guest. 22 00:02:56,910 --> 00:02:58,309 Little boy. 23 00:03:00,446 --> 00:03:02,607 Hmm? You smell that? 24 00:03:02,682 --> 00:03:04,240 It's this way. 25 00:03:15,128 --> 00:03:16,686 Right on target. 26 00:03:20,333 --> 00:03:22,062 What the...?! 27 00:03:22,135 --> 00:03:23,898 That's funny. 28 00:03:23,970 --> 00:03:26,939 Mataichi? Ogin?! 29 00:03:31,477 --> 00:03:33,172 - These are... - DELlClOUS! 30 00:03:33,246 --> 00:03:34,804 They taste just like the ones at Kyogokutei! 31 00:03:34,881 --> 00:03:36,746 It even makes me cry! 32 00:03:37,784 --> 00:03:39,809 - Is it tasty? - Tasty? 33 00:03:41,454 --> 00:03:43,581 I'm Shiratama, this inn's eye-candy. 34 00:03:43,656 --> 00:03:45,146 And I'm Kuromame. Same job. 35 00:03:45,225 --> 00:03:47,625 Shiratama and Kuromame. 36 00:03:47,694 --> 00:03:49,389 Those names sound familiar. 37 00:03:49,562 --> 00:03:50,824 YOU TWO?! 38 00:03:55,235 --> 00:03:56,725 Granny White Hermit... 39 00:03:56,803 --> 00:03:58,134 ...and Granny Black Hermit! 40 00:04:00,607 --> 00:04:03,041 We have a teensy favor to ask of you. 41 00:04:03,109 --> 00:04:05,634 I want you to do the job since you ate our food. 42 00:04:08,047 --> 00:04:10,174 But first, about that young man... 43 00:04:10,250 --> 00:04:11,376 Yes, about him. 44 00:04:37,610 --> 00:04:38,941 Help...me. 45 00:04:45,218 --> 00:04:46,344 Well? 46 00:04:46,419 --> 00:04:49,820 Well, he'll be lucky to live through the night. 47 00:04:50,523 --> 00:04:53,390 Feed him something that'll give him strength. 48 00:04:53,459 --> 00:04:56,257 That might save his life. 49 00:05:55,188 --> 00:05:56,450 What did you say?! 50 00:05:56,522 --> 00:06:00,686 You don't remember anything of your last few days here? 51 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:01,954 No. 52 00:06:02,995 --> 00:06:08,490 At the lkomaya shop near Kyo Bridge, I retired from work to write riddles. 53 00:06:08,568 --> 00:06:13,335 Then I decided I wanted to write a book of 100 ghost stories. 54 00:06:13,406 --> 00:06:15,966 Ah. Ghost stories, you say? 55 00:06:19,278 --> 00:06:22,441 Your name is Momosuke Yamaoka, correct? 56 00:06:23,383 --> 00:06:26,841 Since you seem to have saved me, I guess I should thank you. 57 00:06:26,919 --> 00:06:29,149 I'm fine now. 58 00:06:32,859 --> 00:06:35,225 Don't strain yourself. 59 00:06:37,730 --> 00:06:42,064 I think you may have experienced something truly terrifying. 60 00:06:43,369 --> 00:06:46,133 I've heard that people who experience... 61 00:06:46,205 --> 00:06:49,038 terrifying things can lose their memory of it. 62 00:07:13,466 --> 00:07:14,990 What's wrong?! 63 00:07:15,067 --> 00:07:17,194 The... The horse! 64 00:07:19,172 --> 00:07:21,732 Heh, take a closer look, please. 65 00:07:28,214 --> 00:07:30,978 This is Hayate, a horse my master loved very much. 66 00:07:37,490 --> 00:07:38,923 Did I say something wrong? 67 00:07:38,991 --> 00:07:43,485 Oh, no. It's just the master isn't home right now. 68 00:07:43,563 --> 00:07:46,498 Oh. Well, perhaps his wife, then. 69 00:07:46,566 --> 00:07:49,228 The mistress passed away. 70 00:07:57,443 --> 00:07:59,377 Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! 71 00:08:38,451 --> 00:08:40,419 Is anybody there?! 72 00:08:41,487 --> 00:08:43,148 My... My stomach! 73 00:08:46,726 --> 00:08:48,353 What's wrong?! 74 00:08:49,996 --> 00:08:51,861 My... My stomach suddenly... 75 00:08:54,467 --> 00:08:55,593 I'll call the foreman! 76 00:08:55,668 --> 00:08:58,330 There... There's a horse! 77 00:08:58,404 --> 00:08:59,837 A pitch-black horse... 78 00:08:59,906 --> 00:09:02,101 There are no horses here in the mansion, sir. 79 00:09:02,174 --> 00:09:04,608 Trouble! The painting of Hayate... 80 00:09:04,677 --> 00:09:05,837 What?! 81 00:09:12,985 --> 00:09:15,351 What's all this uproar in the middle of the night?! 82 00:09:15,922 --> 00:09:17,412 Hayate is... 83 00:09:19,358 --> 00:09:21,155 Wh- What on earth?! 84 00:09:21,227 --> 00:09:23,661 It's a ghost. Hayate's ghost! 85 00:09:23,729 --> 00:09:26,357 Don't be absurd! 86 00:09:43,883 --> 00:09:46,283 What the...? My stomach's all right now. 87 00:09:46,352 --> 00:09:47,683 L- Look! 88 00:09:50,723 --> 00:09:54,489 Did it break out? The horse in the painting? 89 00:09:57,363 --> 00:09:59,763 About the night I was brought here... 90 00:09:59,832 --> 00:10:03,199 What did I eat that night? 91 00:10:03,603 --> 00:10:05,070 It... It was... 92 00:10:05,137 --> 00:10:07,071 Please tell me! 93 00:10:07,907 --> 00:10:10,398 It was horse meat. 94 00:10:10,810 --> 00:10:13,472 Animal meat?! Horse? 95 00:10:13,546 --> 00:10:16,413 We had no choice. 96 00:10:16,482 --> 00:10:19,883 The doctor said we needed to give you something nutritious. 97 00:10:19,952 --> 00:10:22,079 You killed a horse for my sake? 98 00:10:22,154 --> 00:10:25,351 Oh, no. We had a horse who died by accident, so... 99 00:10:28,361 --> 00:10:30,352 Hmm? Something wrong? 100 00:10:30,830 --> 00:10:33,355 There's the story of "Salty Choji." 101 00:10:34,433 --> 00:10:37,266 There was a man named Choji who raised horses. 102 00:10:37,336 --> 00:10:39,031 A horse he'd raised died... 103 00:10:39,105 --> 00:10:42,905 so he put miso and salt on its meat and ate it. 104 00:10:42,975 --> 00:10:46,035 Then, one night, the ghost of the horse appeared... 105 00:10:46,112 --> 00:10:48,376 invaded Choji's body through his mouth... 106 00:10:48,447 --> 00:10:50,881 and then ran wild in his stomach, so the story goes. 107 00:10:52,451 --> 00:10:55,113 It went on for 100 days. 108 00:10:55,187 --> 00:10:58,714 Momosuke, you're saying the pain in your stomach... 109 00:10:58,791 --> 00:11:01,123 comes from being cursed by a horse? 110 00:11:01,193 --> 00:11:03,559 A curse from a horse, you say? 111 00:11:04,997 --> 00:11:07,261 Doctor! You've come again? 112 00:11:07,333 --> 00:11:11,497 Horses escaping from paintings, horse curses... 113 00:11:11,570 --> 00:11:13,595 Hmpf! You people are so superstitious! 114 00:11:13,673 --> 00:11:15,470 But, Doctor... 115 00:11:15,541 --> 00:11:18,476 Rather than that, I have medicines to try. 116 00:11:18,544 --> 00:11:19,841 Have him take them. 117 00:11:19,912 --> 00:11:22,176 Yes, sir. 118 00:11:22,248 --> 00:11:26,446 Is that clear? Be sure to take them before he sleeps. 119 00:11:27,353 --> 00:11:28,684 Yes, sir. 120 00:11:30,856 --> 00:11:32,153 Master. 121 00:11:32,725 --> 00:11:36,422 Oh... meat! I want to have some meat! 122 00:11:36,495 --> 00:11:38,588 But, Master, any more and... 123 00:11:38,664 --> 00:11:41,360 The meat I had that one time... 124 00:11:41,434 --> 00:11:43,368 I want to eat more! 125 00:11:44,537 --> 00:11:48,871 Monkey! This time, bring me the flesh of a monkey to eat! 126 00:11:58,217 --> 00:11:59,684 Tr- Trouble! 127 00:11:59,752 --> 00:12:01,379 Now what are you yelling about? 128 00:12:01,454 --> 00:12:04,218 A... A girl's shown up here! 129 00:12:04,290 --> 00:12:06,588 She says her name is Osan. 130 00:12:06,659 --> 00:12:10,254 What?! The master's daughter?! Where is she?! 131 00:12:10,329 --> 00:12:12,058 The main hall. 132 00:12:25,644 --> 00:12:27,839 What should we do? 133 00:12:44,330 --> 00:12:48,767 Again. The ghost of Hayate is running wild again! 134 00:13:11,357 --> 00:13:14,622 It hurts. My stomach hurts so much. 135 00:13:17,530 --> 00:13:18,792 Stop, please! 136 00:13:20,833 --> 00:13:22,460 If you keep burning that... 137 00:13:22,535 --> 00:13:25,026 Hayate will never stop running wild in your stomach! 138 00:13:26,605 --> 00:13:28,095 Master! What?! 139 00:13:28,174 --> 00:13:31,610 Master? Didn't you say he wasn't here? 140 00:13:40,486 --> 00:13:41,817 It's coming! 141 00:13:42,421 --> 00:13:45,288 No, it can't be! 142 00:13:51,197 --> 00:13:52,687 H- Help me! 143 00:13:52,765 --> 00:13:54,027 Master! 144 00:13:56,368 --> 00:13:58,029 Help me! 145 00:14:05,077 --> 00:14:07,671 You ate horse meat, too, didn't you? 146 00:14:07,746 --> 00:14:09,179 My medicine! 147 00:14:09,248 --> 00:14:14,413 Medicine won't work. You have the curse of "Salty Choji." 148 00:14:14,486 --> 00:14:16,249 Is there nothing we can do? 149 00:14:17,890 --> 00:14:20,256 Help me, please! 150 00:14:21,994 --> 00:14:24,758 Please, tell me what happened here. 151 00:14:25,698 --> 00:14:28,792 It all started 12 years ago. 152 00:14:29,501 --> 00:14:33,767 The master had married into the household... 153 00:14:33,839 --> 00:14:38,173 and with the birth of Miss Osan, he was very happy. 154 00:14:38,878 --> 00:14:40,846 Then, one day... 155 00:14:40,913 --> 00:14:45,646 we were attacked by a gang of bandits called the "Mishima Night Riders"... 156 00:14:45,718 --> 00:14:47,686 Ied by a man named Hyakki-maru. 157 00:14:55,928 --> 00:14:57,020 Osan! 158 00:15:07,106 --> 00:15:09,870 By a stroke of luck, the master fell into a cave... 159 00:15:09,942 --> 00:15:12,376 on the way down and was saved. 160 00:15:12,444 --> 00:15:15,140 That's what happened? 161 00:15:15,214 --> 00:15:20,584 After that, the master changed. 162 00:15:20,653 --> 00:15:24,089 He's like a different man now. 163 00:15:24,156 --> 00:15:25,521 And the girl? 164 00:15:25,591 --> 00:15:28,185 She'd disappeared. But now... 165 00:15:31,597 --> 00:15:34,191 Master! Master! 166 00:15:36,769 --> 00:15:37,895 What's wrong? 167 00:15:37,970 --> 00:15:41,667 It's the talisman-selling exorcist everyone in town's been talking about. 168 00:15:41,740 --> 00:15:44,573 I thought I'd have him come and perform an exorcism. 169 00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:57,282 If this cures his illness, there's no need for doctors anymore. 170 00:16:10,235 --> 00:16:11,429 It hurts! 171 00:16:16,775 --> 00:16:20,802 It's happening again! Help me! 172 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:25,808 There is only one way to save you from the curse of Salty Choji. 173 00:16:26,385 --> 00:16:28,319 Wh- What is it? 174 00:16:28,387 --> 00:16:32,414 Are you hiding an evil deed that you've done? 175 00:16:32,491 --> 00:16:36,393 Tell me every bad thing you've done that you're hiding! 176 00:16:36,462 --> 00:16:39,329 E- Even if you ask me that... 177 00:16:39,398 --> 00:16:42,333 You will tell me, won't you, please? 178 00:16:42,401 --> 00:16:45,837 But I don't remember! 179 00:16:45,904 --> 00:16:49,431 Tell him! Then you'll be saved! 180 00:16:49,508 --> 00:16:51,169 But I don't remember! 181 00:16:53,345 --> 00:16:55,939 No, please! Help me! 182 00:17:00,219 --> 00:17:01,777 Isn't there anything you can do? 183 00:17:03,822 --> 00:17:07,656 Help... Help me! 184 00:17:21,140 --> 00:17:24,871 Confessing his evil deeds could have saved him, but... 185 00:17:24,943 --> 00:17:26,638 Poor fellow. 186 00:17:27,846 --> 00:17:29,871 Well? What about you? 187 00:17:37,689 --> 00:17:41,557 I... I'm not really Chojiro. 188 00:17:41,927 --> 00:17:44,794 I'm Hyakki-maru of the Night Riders! 189 00:17:44,863 --> 00:17:46,728 You're not the master?! 190 00:17:46,799 --> 00:17:48,790 You switched when you fell in the cave, didn't you? 191 00:17:48,867 --> 00:17:50,801 But that's impossible! 192 00:17:51,336 --> 00:17:54,737 Chojiro was my twin brother. 193 00:17:54,807 --> 00:17:58,504 We sent him here to be our inside man. 194 00:17:58,577 --> 00:18:00,477 But he betrayed us! 195 00:18:00,546 --> 00:18:03,538 He was overwhelmed by the happy life he found here! 196 00:18:03,615 --> 00:18:05,947 That's why we decided to kill everyone here. 197 00:18:06,685 --> 00:18:08,778 No... 198 00:18:08,854 --> 00:18:13,291 That cave! If we just hadn't fallen into that cave! 199 00:18:19,832 --> 00:18:22,767 You're planning to die here? 200 00:18:24,236 --> 00:18:27,069 Even though I've finally found happiness. 201 00:18:27,139 --> 00:18:30,404 I'm not going to die. Not in a place like this! 202 00:18:33,512 --> 00:18:35,639 You ate Hayate, didn't you? 203 00:18:35,714 --> 00:18:37,682 It was delicious. 204 00:18:37,749 --> 00:18:40,650 I never forgot how it tasted, and I've tried all different kinds of meat. 205 00:18:40,719 --> 00:18:42,118 That's the reason. 206 00:18:42,187 --> 00:18:44,849 But nothing can compare to the flavor of that meat. 207 00:18:44,923 --> 00:18:47,153 I find that story strange. 208 00:18:47,226 --> 00:18:51,526 I thought the horse's body was found below the cave. 209 00:18:52,464 --> 00:18:56,992 So, what exactly did you eat to keep yourself alive? 210 00:19:00,839 --> 00:19:02,500 What... What are you saying I did?! 211 00:19:02,574 --> 00:19:05,407 What you devoured was the last remnant... 212 00:19:05,477 --> 00:19:08,002 of human conscience within your soul. 213 00:19:20,192 --> 00:19:21,887 I... I... 214 00:19:23,428 --> 00:19:25,828 Help me, please! 215 00:19:47,819 --> 00:19:50,344 As we travel down the path of life, we are confronted by choices. 216 00:19:50,422 --> 00:19:53,289 Step off the path of righteousness and you become trapped in the depths of sin. 217 00:19:53,358 --> 00:19:56,384 In the end, this transient world is but a dream. 218 00:19:56,461 --> 00:19:58,929 Evil and ambition scatter in the darkness... 219 00:19:58,997 --> 00:20:02,797 Ieaving behind dubious rumors to fly in public. 220 00:20:02,968 --> 00:20:04,663 What the...? 221 00:20:05,370 --> 00:20:07,531 This... This is... 222 00:20:22,287 --> 00:20:24,755 Save me, please! 223 00:20:42,474 --> 00:20:45,375 To the next world, we commit Thee. 224 00:20:54,453 --> 00:20:55,613 You're... 225 00:20:57,489 --> 00:21:01,619 Don't you think your true calling is to be an actor, Mr. Author? 226 00:21:01,693 --> 00:21:05,493 Aw, come on, Nagamimi. You know that's not true. 227 00:21:05,564 --> 00:21:06,861 Who are you people? 228 00:21:06,932 --> 00:21:12,370 The real Osan lost her memory after falling from the cliff. 229 00:21:12,437 --> 00:21:16,373 She lives in an Edo tenement now, in the home of Tokujiro Soroban. 230 00:21:16,441 --> 00:21:18,602 How do you know all this? 231 00:21:18,677 --> 00:21:22,773 Never mind that. In the morning, go fetch her. 232 00:21:22,848 --> 00:21:24,679 Thank you so much. 233 00:21:24,750 --> 00:21:27,344 You won't have to kill any more animals now. 234 00:21:27,419 --> 00:21:30,820 And yet... when the bandits attacked... 235 00:21:30,889 --> 00:21:33,790 I could do nothing to help the master. 236 00:21:33,859 --> 00:21:37,590 And all the things I killed to feed that villain! 237 00:21:38,096 --> 00:21:43,796 Forget that. Go save Miss Osan, then protect this home, all right? 238 00:21:50,475 --> 00:21:53,774 Do you have the intention of becoming a kabuki actor? 239 00:22:02,321 --> 00:22:03,413 The kid... 240 00:22:03,488 --> 00:22:05,285 ...was pretty good, don't you think? 241 00:22:05,357 --> 00:22:09,350 I hope he has a sweet tooth. 242 00:22:14,566 --> 00:22:20,664 Wind chimes whisper soft and sweet 243 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:28,104 Though there's not a hint of a breeze 244 00:22:29,081 --> 00:22:34,849 Moonlight dancing on the garden walk 245 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:41,484 As it gently drifts through the trees 246 00:22:42,928 --> 00:22:48,833 Romance takes flight on this perfect night 247 00:22:48,900 --> 00:22:55,533 While all of the world lays sleeping 248 00:22:56,375 --> 00:23:05,841 Find us here as we feel the moment of love 249 00:23:07,185 --> 00:23:10,348 Draw near 250 00:23:10,622 --> 00:23:17,585 Dream, sleep, with your hand in mine 251 00:23:17,662 --> 00:23:23,601 Underneath a blanket of stars 252 00:23:25,804 --> 00:23:31,003 Song birds singing in a distant glade 253 00:23:31,076 --> 00:23:39,916 As we share the warmth of the dawn 254 00:23:50,395 --> 00:23:52,863 Evil and ambition scatter in the darkness... 255 00:23:52,931 --> 00:23:56,458 Ieaving behind dubious rumors to fly in public. 256 00:23:56,535 --> 00:23:58,730 A troupe of puppeteers called Shibaemon. 257 00:23:58,804 --> 00:24:01,864 A tanuki (raccoon dog) masquerading as a human. 258 00:24:01,940 --> 00:24:05,239 A murderous monster or a specter? 259 00:24:05,310 --> 00:24:09,610 Next time, on Natsuhiko Kyogoku's "Requiem From the Darkness:" 260 00:24:09,881 --> 00:24:12,441 Shibaemon the Raccoon Dog. 261 00:24:12,551 --> 00:24:14,883 To the next world, we commit Thee!