- Kujuro Hirayama: No mercy! There's no samurai code or fair play in battle! No sword? Use a stick. No stick? Use a rock. No rock? Use your fists and feet! Lose your life, but make the enemy pay!
- Hanbei Kitou: Who are you? You're no samurai.
- Koyata: So what? Do only samurai matter in this world? I thought samurai would be fun but you bore me. You're useless, even more useless in great numbers.
- Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: [stabs him] This man speaks the truth. His reward is my short sword.
- Saheita Kuranaga: I presume you are the Akashi entourage of Lord Naritsugu. By the order of His Shogun's subject Shinzaemon, we commemorate your passage with arrows!
- Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: Hanbei?
- Hanbei Kitou: Huh?
- Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: You think the age of war was like this?
- Hanbei Kitou: Perhaps
- Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: It's magnificent. With death comes gratitude for life. If a man has lived in vain, then how trivial his life is. Oh, Hanbei. Something wonderful has come to my mind.
- Hanbei Kitou: Huh?
- Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: Once I'm on the Shogun's council, let's bring the age of war.
- Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: Ruling is convenient, but only for rulers. The people must live to serve.
- Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: Some call it elegance. Some call it cruel. I like it.
- [kicks his retainer's severed head]
- Shinzaemon Shimada: Your mistake is believing your decorative blade is not just for show.
- Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: Nonsense. It's not for show!
- Shinzaemon Shimada: Decoration is for show.
- Shinzaemon Shimada: Be silent like the decorative man you are.
- Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: [dying] Of all the days of my life, today has been the most exciting.
- Shinzaemon Shimada: You're welcome!