Toshirô Mifune credited as playing...
Musashi Miyamoto (Takezo)
- Musashi Miyamoto: I dreamt of worldly success once. I thought it was natural to settle down, but now I want to train myself further.
- Otsu: I hate samurai. I wish you were still the Takezo who I used to know. Darling, abandon your sword. Don't fight! Let them call you a coward. I want happiness, just us two!
- [She sobs into Musashi's chest while Musashi looks straight on, sternly]
- Musashi Miyamoto: That's impossible now, Otsu.
- Otsu: Please, I won't let you go! No!
- [She continues sobbing into Musashi's chest, but Musashi pushes her up gently to look at him]
- Musashi Miyamoto: Don't be unreasonable.
- Otsu: I'm a woman. I wish you had been an ordinary man.
- [She buries herself in Musashi's chest and continues crying]
- Musashi Miyamoto: Otsu, don't demoralize me, please. A samurai's wife sends off her man with a smile.
- [Otsu looks up at Musashi]
- Musashi Miyamoto: Especially when it might be for the last time.
- Otsu: [faint smile] Of course.
- Musashi Miyamoto: That's the hut we built. We three live in it. And we've tilled those patches of land. It was barren. But it's yielding crops lately thanks to our labor. In the old days, I used to hate farm work. I was always daydreaming, longing for victory and renown. I could think of nothing else. Now I'm tilling the fields again. Isn't it strange? I'm beginning to learn the value of life. The soil has taught me that.
- Old Priest Nikkan: Strength alone won't make an accomplished swordsman. He must be strong. At the same time, he must be just.
- Musashi Miyamoto: I want to be able to fight without regrets. My past encounters were full of them.
- Old Priest Nikkan: "One can only smile contentedly after 10 years of pilgrimage." Musashi, you still have much to learn.
- Old Priest Nikkan: Have you ever fallen in love? I know a person who's madly in love with you. Do you want to meet this person?
- Musashi Miyamoto: Well...
- Old Priest Nikkan: So there's already someone in your heart. Don't worry. The person I'm talking about is a man.
- Musashi Miyamoto: A man who longs for a man?
- Old Priest Nikkan: Yes, a man. He wants to meet you.
- Musashi Miyamoto: We'll live here.
- Jotaro: Here?
- Musashi Miyamoto: And plow.
- Kumagoro the horse thief: What about training for sword fighting?
- Musashi Miyamoto: As we plow, we will learn the way of the sword.