1 00:00:06,842 --> 00:00:10,505 It was truly an awful thing. 2 00:00:10,579 --> 00:00:14,379 An incident which, to my sadness, I cannot forget. 3 00:00:19,020 --> 00:00:21,989 T o live is to suffer. 4 00:00:25,260 --> 00:00:27,956 Yet I shouldn't forget it. 5 00:00:28,029 --> 00:00:31,294 No, I mustn't forget it. 6 00:00:31,366 --> 00:00:34,028 It is for that reason that I'm writing this. 7 00:00:35,203 --> 00:00:37,535 In memory of a simple tanuki. 8 00:00:42,344 --> 00:00:51,150 (Wanting you to just be near, to feel your breath upon my ear) 9 00:00:51,219 --> 00:01:00,184 (Wishing you would call my name, 'Cause only you can light the flame) 10 00:01:00,262 --> 00:01:07,395 Constantly searching, still can't find 11 00:01:09,671 --> 00:01:15,667 Ever illusive peace of mind 12 00:01:17,846 --> 00:01:26,413 Sometimes it's near, but slips away 13 00:01:26,488 --> 00:01:33,052 And I'm faced with another day 14 00:01:34,296 --> 00:01:40,166 Of wanting you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 15 00:01:40,235 --> 00:01:44,604 ...to just be near ('Cause only you can light the flame) 16 00:01:44,673 --> 00:01:48,734 Of wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 17 00:01:48,810 --> 00:01:53,304 ...would call my name, to feel your breath upon my ear 18 00:01:53,381 --> 00:01:57,784 Of wanting you...wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 19 00:01:57,852 --> 00:02:05,623 Call my name, 'cause only you can light the flame 20 00:02:16,137 --> 00:02:18,196 When I first met him... 21 00:02:18,273 --> 00:02:20,366 I'm a tanuki. 22 00:02:20,608 --> 00:02:23,168 He mumbled it, and I didn't know what to say. 23 00:02:23,244 --> 00:02:26,680 I changed into a human and can't change back now. 24 00:02:31,186 --> 00:02:33,154 Have you met him? The tanuki? 25 00:02:34,622 --> 00:02:37,750 The tanuki? The boss picked him up from somewhere. 26 00:02:37,826 --> 00:02:40,317 He's been with us for a while now. 27 00:02:41,796 --> 00:02:45,459 They keep calling him a tanuki... 28 00:02:45,533 --> 00:02:48,559 but the word is he's the bastard child of some nobleman. 29 00:02:50,038 --> 00:02:52,700 He's a nice tanuki. 30 00:02:52,774 --> 00:02:55,242 When I heard that Ogin had joined up... 31 00:02:55,310 --> 00:02:57,710 with a puppeteer troupe she knew to help them... 32 00:02:57,779 --> 00:03:02,443 my first thought was that their next target was one of the players. 33 00:03:02,517 --> 00:03:06,078 Yes. At first, I was merely curious. 34 00:03:06,154 --> 00:03:08,884 It just seems too much like a bad pun to me. 35 00:03:08,957 --> 00:03:11,016 A tanuki with the Shibaemon Players! 36 00:03:11,092 --> 00:03:16,029 Just what I'd expect to hear from someone writing "The 100 Stories." 37 00:03:16,097 --> 00:03:18,657 Unlike the common tales of kappas and monster cats... 38 00:03:18,733 --> 00:03:22,032 most people haven't heard the story of the Shibaemon Tanuki. 39 00:03:22,871 --> 00:03:24,600 Aw, come on. Please? 40 00:03:24,672 --> 00:03:28,574 Well, of course I know it, having a name like this. 41 00:03:28,643 --> 00:03:31,840 Got teased about it all the time when I was a kid! 42 00:03:31,913 --> 00:03:34,905 The troupe was called the Shibaemon Players... 43 00:03:34,983 --> 00:03:38,282 named after its leader, a kind and gentle-looking man. 44 00:03:38,353 --> 00:03:40,878 The same name as in the legend of the Shibaemon Tanuki... 45 00:03:40,955 --> 00:03:43,947 which tells of a tanuki who loved plays, transformed into a human... 46 00:03:44,025 --> 00:03:46,550 in order to see one, and was eaten by dogs as a result. 47 00:03:46,628 --> 00:03:50,758 The funny thing was that this troupe also apparently had a tanuki in it. 48 00:03:50,832 --> 00:03:54,359 A tanuki who 'd changed into a person, just like the legend told. 49 00:03:56,237 --> 00:03:58,364 I am a tanuki. 50 00:04:10,685 --> 00:04:14,348 Truly, I am a tanuki who shouldn't be allowed to live. 51 00:04:14,422 --> 00:04:17,323 Is it wrong to want to live? 52 00:04:18,159 --> 00:04:22,357 Or, rather, life itself is certainly painful. 53 00:04:22,464 --> 00:04:24,659 The tanuki's cage. 54 00:04:24,732 --> 00:04:28,361 The "cage" in this case being an extravagantly-designed prison cell. 55 00:04:28,970 --> 00:04:32,906 Perhaps my fleeting glimpse of him led me to sympathize with his plight. 56 00:04:35,043 --> 00:04:36,908 Isn't that a little cruel?! 57 00:04:36,978 --> 00:04:39,913 No need to get mad all of a sudden! 58 00:04:39,981 --> 00:04:44,384 Who wouldn't get angry, seeing a man locked up like that?! 59 00:04:45,053 --> 00:04:51,185 For a man who thinks up riddles, you jump to conclusions too easily. 60 00:04:51,259 --> 00:04:53,284 In the end, a tanuki is a wild animal... 61 00:04:53,361 --> 00:04:56,421 and wild animals need to be chained up. 62 00:04:57,165 --> 00:04:59,190 But... 63 00:05:00,335 --> 00:05:01,927 Who is that?! 64 00:05:02,003 --> 00:05:04,267 That's the tanuki. 65 00:05:04,339 --> 00:05:07,604 But he's usually pretty quiet. 66 00:05:13,181 --> 00:05:14,739 You heard me howling last night? 67 00:05:14,816 --> 00:05:17,250 I'm embarrassed. 68 00:05:18,553 --> 00:05:21,784 Sometimes, I have no memory of the previous night. 69 00:05:21,856 --> 00:05:25,792 Perhaps I turn back into a tanuki on those nights. 70 00:05:25,860 --> 00:05:28,021 Play with me, Mr. Tanuki! 71 00:05:28,096 --> 00:05:30,997 Master Shibaemon will scold you, Miss Tei. 72 00:05:31,065 --> 00:05:33,795 He's told you to stay away from me, hasn't he? 73 00:05:33,868 --> 00:05:38,498 Grandpa's rehearsing now, so it'll be all right! 74 00:05:40,041 --> 00:05:42,908 Me? Yes, of course. 75 00:05:42,977 --> 00:05:46,572 Those rumors that I'm the bastard son of a nobleman are true. 76 00:05:46,648 --> 00:05:54,316 I see. So, the riddler wishes to hear of the tanuki's past. 77 00:05:56,257 --> 00:06:00,057 They say you will be his substitute! 78 00:06:01,162 --> 00:06:07,101 Yes. I came into this world as a substitute for a certain man. 79 00:06:07,635 --> 00:06:11,731 The shogun recently installed has a weak heart. 80 00:06:12,907 --> 00:06:16,468 The Healing Buddha said he would certainly die young. 81 00:06:16,544 --> 00:06:20,913 If that happens, as you share the blood that flows within him... 82 00:06:20,982 --> 00:06:25,510 and look just like him, you would have to become the new shogun. 83 00:06:25,587 --> 00:06:28,021 I would become the shogun? 84 00:06:29,657 --> 00:06:34,594 I accepted the life of a substitute without question. 85 00:06:34,662 --> 00:06:37,028 I was never allowed to go outside and play. 86 00:06:37,098 --> 00:06:41,034 Instead, I was kept inside the palace, studying the role of shogun day after day. 87 00:06:41,102 --> 00:06:44,265 The one person who offered me comfort... 88 00:06:44,339 --> 00:06:46,864 was the narrator of the Shibaemon Players... 89 00:06:46,941 --> 00:06:50,035 who would come by once in a while to perform for us. 90 00:06:50,111 --> 00:06:52,045 The Shogun has produced an heir?! 91 00:06:53,781 --> 00:06:58,047 Then, what about me? What will become of me?! 92 00:07:05,693 --> 00:07:09,493 How... How could you?! 93 00:07:19,607 --> 00:07:23,202 The stories of tanukis who turn into people... 94 00:07:23,278 --> 00:07:26,270 and of noble bastard sons are quite common. 95 00:07:26,347 --> 00:07:28,338 Yeah, that's true. 96 00:07:28,416 --> 00:07:33,046 But how often do the two get combined like this? 97 00:07:33,121 --> 00:07:36,056 The vital point here seems to be your sympathy for him, Mr. Author. 98 00:07:36,124 --> 00:07:37,557 I...? 99 00:07:37,625 --> 00:07:41,322 Heh, the fact your heart goes out to others so easily... 100 00:07:41,396 --> 00:07:43,660 is proof of your basic kind nature. 101 00:07:43,731 --> 00:07:46,291 Some might call it naive. 102 00:07:46,501 --> 00:07:47,934 Oh, enough of this! 103 00:07:48,002 --> 00:07:52,666 Leaving? It's very late. Why not spend the night here? 104 00:07:53,374 --> 00:07:56,537 I hear that violent men who kill for no reason are common lately. 105 00:07:56,611 --> 00:08:00,342 That doesn't mean I'll run into one! 106 00:08:02,350 --> 00:08:05,217 Why didn't I realize it then? 107 00:08:05,286 --> 00:08:08,483 That was just his usual way of warning me. 108 00:08:08,556 --> 00:08:15,052 He was telling me not to get so emotionally attached to the tanuki. 109 00:08:16,831 --> 00:08:19,231 Am I lost? 110 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:21,791 I'd better stay put for a bit. 111 00:08:33,948 --> 00:08:35,779 Could it be?! 112 00:08:42,357 --> 00:08:45,849 No, it couldn't be. How could he get out of those chains? 113 00:08:48,596 --> 00:08:52,088 Even so, I still believed that he... 114 00:08:52,166 --> 00:08:55,602 That the tanuki wasn't the killer. 115 00:08:55,670 --> 00:08:58,639 Oh? The tanuki last night? 116 00:08:58,706 --> 00:09:03,143 He yelled for a bit, but eventually quieted down. 117 00:09:03,211 --> 00:09:06,977 Anyway, I have to get down to the riverside. Can you help me? 118 00:09:07,048 --> 00:09:12,418 So, the killer struck again, huh? Well, it's dangerous lately, but... 119 00:09:12,487 --> 00:09:17,015 I hear we can have a really sweet time on the next street over. 120 00:09:18,693 --> 00:09:20,490 You old tanuki! 121 00:09:20,561 --> 00:09:26,022 Uh-huh! One time before he ran back to his home really fast! 122 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:29,968 My grandpa had a really scary look on his face when he did! 123 00:09:32,540 --> 00:09:35,998 The killer is traveling with my company, you say? 124 00:09:36,077 --> 00:09:39,240 Don't be absurd! 125 00:09:39,313 --> 00:09:44,080 Considering you've seen the killer twice and lived... 126 00:09:44,152 --> 00:09:45,585 Is that a threat? 127 00:09:45,653 --> 00:09:47,951 Take it as you like. 128 00:09:48,790 --> 00:09:51,418 No human is behind those killings. 129 00:09:51,492 --> 00:09:53,517 No human COULD do that. 130 00:09:54,328 --> 00:09:55,522 No human. 131 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:01,730 Nobody would talk. 132 00:10:01,803 --> 00:10:04,533 They'd turned their eyes from the truth. 133 00:10:04,605 --> 00:10:06,971 So, my only choice was to look into it myself. 134 00:10:07,041 --> 00:10:11,478 I had to uncover the truth of that foggy night... 135 00:10:11,979 --> 00:10:13,241 It's nearly time. 136 00:10:13,314 --> 00:10:14,747 Right. 137 00:10:15,349 --> 00:10:17,977 Hello there, Mataichi. 138 00:10:18,519 --> 00:10:23,422 Well, I wanted to see this tanuki everyone's talking about. 139 00:10:23,491 --> 00:10:28,019 You probably heard something from Ogin and came to make fun of me. 140 00:10:28,095 --> 00:10:30,859 What you wish to know, Mr. Author... 141 00:10:30,932 --> 00:10:34,732 is whether that young samurai is a tanuki or a human... 142 00:10:34,802 --> 00:10:37,293 and if the killings are the work of the tanuki. 143 00:10:38,606 --> 00:10:41,302 A tanuki in human form would split his victim... 144 00:10:41,375 --> 00:10:44,276 in half vertically in order to devour their liver. 145 00:10:44,345 --> 00:10:48,611 Ah, wait, but you knew that already, didn't you? 146 00:10:48,683 --> 00:10:51,345 Still, it's a well-constructed story he's spun. 147 00:10:51,419 --> 00:10:52,784 Assuming he's human... 148 00:10:52,854 --> 00:10:55,220 IF he's human? 149 00:10:55,289 --> 00:10:57,223 Someone's coming. 150 00:11:01,596 --> 00:11:02,654 SHlBA-- 151 00:11:12,206 --> 00:11:14,401 Gone! I lost him! 152 00:11:18,446 --> 00:11:19,435 Tei?! 153 00:11:21,382 --> 00:11:26,183 Master Samurai, wait! MASTER SAMURAl! 154 00:11:37,598 --> 00:11:40,066 Master Samurai, calm yourself! 155 00:12:02,723 --> 00:12:05,191 Up we go! That was close! 156 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,355 Nagamimi! 157 00:12:10,865 --> 00:12:15,359 Mr. Author, I hate to say this, but... 158 00:12:15,570 --> 00:12:18,698 No, I didn't want to listen. 159 00:12:18,773 --> 00:12:23,176 Shibaemon and the rest of his players all knew the truth. 160 00:12:23,244 --> 00:12:27,806 The young samurai was the serial killer. 161 00:12:27,882 --> 00:12:31,511 Knowing that, they still unchained him and set him loose! 162 00:12:31,586 --> 00:12:36,080 What was once a young man who dreamed of a future in their troupe... 163 00:12:36,157 --> 00:12:38,148 has now simply become a bother. 164 00:12:38,225 --> 00:12:42,685 And as a bonus, someone investigating the killings showed up as well. 165 00:12:43,864 --> 00:12:45,764 What, am I the "bonus"? 166 00:12:45,833 --> 00:12:48,301 They let him loose because they knew... 167 00:12:48,369 --> 00:12:50,894 you'd be coming to check things out today. 168 00:12:50,972 --> 00:12:54,999 Well, you turned out to be good bait in the end, Mr. Author. 169 00:12:57,078 --> 00:12:59,273 He's crying? 170 00:12:59,347 --> 00:13:03,511 One who murdered innocent people. Who murdered little Tei! 171 00:13:03,584 --> 00:13:08,988 Do you wish to know? The truth about what he is? 172 00:13:11,859 --> 00:13:15,317 Even if he was the one behind it... 173 00:13:15,396 --> 00:13:18,763 how do I tell Shibaemon that Tei's been killed?! 174 00:13:23,804 --> 00:13:25,203 Tei?! 175 00:13:27,475 --> 00:13:29,534 You're as slow as ever, I see. 176 00:13:29,610 --> 00:13:31,043 Ogin?! 177 00:13:31,112 --> 00:13:34,047 What is the puppeteer's specialty? 178 00:13:34,115 --> 00:13:37,050 At that moment, I realized it. 179 00:13:37,118 --> 00:13:43,023 Mataichi and the others had come to kill the tanuki from the very start. 180 00:13:43,524 --> 00:13:47,893 I see. You've done a fine piece of investigation. 181 00:13:49,764 --> 00:13:54,463 It was a while back, when we were hunting a wild tanuki. 182 00:13:54,535 --> 00:14:01,065 He was ruining our tools and materials right and left. 183 00:14:01,142 --> 00:14:06,273 What we found in the trap was a young samurai, on the run. 184 00:14:08,449 --> 00:14:10,474 Yes, I'd heard about it. 185 00:14:10,551 --> 00:14:13,281 How the shogun had finally produced an heir. 186 00:14:13,354 --> 00:14:16,949 With the dream of his replacing the shogun now ended... 187 00:14:17,024 --> 00:14:20,016 so, too, ended the dream of our modest troupe... 188 00:14:20,094 --> 00:14:21,959 of becoming royal performers. 189 00:14:22,029 --> 00:14:26,329 Can you blame me for feeling like I'd been tricked by a tanuki? 190 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:32,270 I couldn't leave him to his fate. He'd come to us for help, after all. 191 00:14:33,074 --> 00:14:36,669 But if the authorities found out, the troupe would be broken up. 192 00:14:36,744 --> 00:14:39,838 We might have even been killed for helping him! 193 00:14:39,914 --> 00:14:43,077 That's why we raised him as a tanuki. 194 00:14:43,150 --> 00:14:44,845 A simple tanuki. 195 00:14:48,989 --> 00:14:52,288 What should we have done, you may ask? 196 00:14:53,427 --> 00:14:57,295 With this poor madman, who lived a cursed existence?! 197 00:14:57,364 --> 00:15:00,458 And so...you let him loose? 198 00:15:07,641 --> 00:15:13,102 All I did was let a tanuki out into the countryside. 199 00:15:16,450 --> 00:15:21,615 If he'd lost his human heart, then perhaps he really was a beast. 200 00:15:21,689 --> 00:15:23,623 If you didn't think of it that way... 201 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,996 It's Tei. We came as soon as we could... 202 00:15:38,072 --> 00:15:40,939 but we couldn't save her. 203 00:15:41,776 --> 00:15:43,334 It can't be! 204 00:15:43,410 --> 00:15:48,677 A tanuki who kills people for no reason must be put to death. 205 00:15:49,817 --> 00:15:51,375 Put to death. 206 00:15:54,021 --> 00:15:57,821 Let me... Let me do it, please! 207 00:15:57,892 --> 00:16:01,350 You? You couldn't do it. 208 00:16:01,428 --> 00:16:05,228 He's not a man. He's a tanuki, right? 209 00:16:09,970 --> 00:16:16,136 That's right. You have to become a real tanuki. 210 00:16:17,611 --> 00:16:22,207 Lady Hachisuka is apparently a huge fan of the theater. 211 00:16:22,283 --> 00:16:25,719 The serial killer panic seems to be keeping the customers away for now. 212 00:16:25,786 --> 00:16:27,549 If we get a powerful backer... 213 00:16:27,621 --> 00:16:30,818 we might get back some of the status we used to have. 214 00:16:36,764 --> 00:16:39,164 Oh, yes, that's right. 215 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,400 Let's watch from here! 216 00:16:46,941 --> 00:16:49,637 You'll go with Mother, won't you? 217 00:16:49,710 --> 00:16:51,701 M- Mother! 218 00:17:12,967 --> 00:17:19,338 Yes, the samurai there poisoned his own mother to save his life! 219 00:17:19,940 --> 00:17:24,775 If we have no role to play anymore, we have no reason to live. 220 00:17:24,845 --> 00:17:27,075 You'll come with me, won't you? 221 00:17:27,147 --> 00:17:29,547 Yes, Mother. 222 00:17:31,018 --> 00:17:36,422 The poison was in my sake cup, but not in my mother's cup! 223 00:17:37,458 --> 00:17:45,627 Why?! Did the shogun say he'd spare you if you killed me?! 224 00:17:48,736 --> 00:17:52,035 I thought we were to both die together. 225 00:18:04,351 --> 00:18:10,415 If... If only... I hadn't given birth... to you! 226 00:18:24,705 --> 00:18:27,970 Mr. Tanuki? What's wrong, huh? 227 00:18:32,279 --> 00:18:36,943 I thought...you were dead. That I'd killed you! 228 00:18:37,017 --> 00:18:40,180 That's right. You killed me. 229 00:18:45,926 --> 00:18:47,621 Tei! 230 00:18:48,729 --> 00:18:50,060 TEl! 231 00:18:51,098 --> 00:18:55,933 I killed her! I killed her! 232 00:18:56,003 --> 00:18:59,234 I had to kill, or they'd have killed me, so...! 233 00:18:59,306 --> 00:19:04,005 So, I did it over and over and over and over! 234 00:19:04,078 --> 00:19:07,912 Is that why you keep killing? Slicing them in two? 235 00:19:12,453 --> 00:19:13,647 TEl! 236 00:19:13,988 --> 00:19:18,391 No! Don't run away! I won't kill you! 237 00:19:18,559 --> 00:19:21,756 I...won't...kill you! 238 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:30,468 Damn you, Tanuki! SHOW YOUR TRUE FORM! 239 00:19:31,138 --> 00:19:34,369 Stop it! I'm... 240 00:19:34,441 --> 00:19:36,568 A tanuki! Isn't that what you said?! 241 00:19:40,547 --> 00:19:43,778 What do you think of your true form, Mr. Tanuki? 242 00:19:44,251 --> 00:19:47,186 I'm not a tanuki! 243 00:19:47,688 --> 00:19:49,952 You are a tanuki! 244 00:19:50,024 --> 00:19:52,754 That's why you murder people! Why you eat their livers! 245 00:19:56,030 --> 00:20:00,933 If you commit your crimes as a tanuki, then you must die as a tanuki! 246 00:20:03,537 --> 00:20:05,732 As we travel down the path of life, we are confronted by choices. 247 00:20:05,806 --> 00:20:08,969 Step off the path of righteousness and you become trapped in the depths of sin. 248 00:20:09,076 --> 00:20:11,237 Evil and ambition scatter in the darkness... 249 00:20:11,311 --> 00:20:13,939 Ieaving behind dubious rumors to fly in public. 250 00:20:15,082 --> 00:20:20,987 I thought Mother was going to kill me. But I'm still alive! 251 00:20:21,055 --> 00:20:27,016 I thought if I could kill Mother, then she could kill me this time! 252 00:20:27,094 --> 00:20:30,120 Is that why you kept killing people? 253 00:20:30,197 --> 00:20:36,466 Is it wrong to live as something you're not? 254 00:20:36,537 --> 00:20:40,598 No, except that you're already dead. 255 00:20:40,674 --> 00:20:44,371 Your body may still be alive, but your soul... 256 00:20:44,445 --> 00:20:47,380 If you wish to die, you should take your own life. 257 00:20:47,448 --> 00:20:52,613 But you didn't kill yourself before killing others. 258 00:20:52,686 --> 00:20:54,620 THAT is your sin! 259 00:20:58,192 --> 00:21:00,752 Impossible! He really was a tanuki?! 260 00:21:01,929 --> 00:21:03,624 Tei! 261 00:21:05,566 --> 00:21:09,525 Tei was killed long ago. 262 00:21:10,871 --> 00:21:15,035 It was a curse of a tanuki. 263 00:21:18,178 --> 00:21:20,544 TEl! 264 00:21:37,998 --> 00:21:43,561 Is it really wrong to live your life as something you're not? 265 00:21:43,637 --> 00:21:45,605 Enough, already! 266 00:21:48,142 --> 00:21:49,769 If you understand that... 267 00:21:49,843 --> 00:21:52,107 Exactly! 268 00:21:52,179 --> 00:21:57,617 I'll never forget him... the tanuki I killed. 269 00:21:57,684 --> 00:22:00,744 While the pain and heartbreak are still fresh... 270 00:22:00,821 --> 00:22:02,618 I'll write the story down. 271 00:22:03,223 --> 00:22:05,350 I'm a tanuki. 272 00:22:06,393 --> 00:22:08,884 In memory of a simple tanuki. 273 00:22:08,962 --> 00:22:12,693 T o the next world, we commit Thee. 274 00:22:14,635 --> 00:22:20,699 Wind chimes whisper soft and sweet 275 00:22:22,075 --> 00:22:28,139 Though there's not a hint of a breeze 276 00:22:29,149 --> 00:22:34,883 Moonlight dancing on the garden walk 277 00:22:34,955 --> 00:22:41,554 As it gently drifts through the trees 278 00:22:42,996 --> 00:22:48,866 Romance takes flight on this perfect night 279 00:22:48,936 --> 00:22:55,569 While all of the world lays sleeping 280 00:22:56,443 --> 00:23:05,875 Find us here as we feel the moment of love 281 00:23:07,254 --> 00:23:10,382 Draw near 282 00:23:10,691 --> 00:23:17,654 Dream, sleep, with your hand in mine 283 00:23:17,731 --> 00:23:23,670 Underneath a blanket of stars 284 00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:31,072 Song birds singing in a distant glade 285 00:23:31,144 --> 00:23:39,984 As we share the warmth of the dawn 286 00:23:48,528 --> 00:23:50,723 Evil and ambition scatter in the darkness... 287 00:23:50,797 --> 00:23:54,164 Ieaving behind dubious rumors to fly in public. 288 00:23:54,234 --> 00:23:57,761 If you head west in Kyoto, you reach a ruthless place... 289 00:23:57,838 --> 00:24:00,534 where you find Genba Sasayama, who lost his wife. 290 00:24:00,607 --> 00:24:04,509 With no place to go, a feeling leads to a woman's corpse. 291 00:24:04,578 --> 00:24:09,015 Next time, on Natsuhiko Kyogoku's "Requiem From the Darkness:" 292 00:24:09,082 --> 00:24:11,380 Katabira Crossroads. 293 00:24:11,451 --> 00:24:13,976 To the next world, we commit Thee!