The Haunted Samurai
2007 · 107 MIN · IMDB 6.0 · 148 VOTES · DIR. Yasuo Furuhata
Overview
A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the Bakumatsu era. After being expelled from the household into which he was adopted through marriage and separated from his wife and son, he moves in with his disapproving elder brother and his wife. He meets his old class rival Enomoto Takeaki, now a commander of a naval ship, and is later told by a kindly noodle shop owner that Enomoto's rise in social status came about after he prayed at a shrine in Mukojima. Stumbling home drunk one night, Hikoshiro falls down a riverbank and comes across a small run-down shrine which he is convinced is affiliated to the one in Mukojima. Pressing his hands together in prayer, he unwittingly invites the unwanted attentions of the gods of poverty, pestilence and death..
Dialogue Timeline — 1,371 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:24 Yoshinobu, the last Shogun, leaves his capital of Edo for Kyoto.
00:04:45 Oh, all right!
00:09:57 I would just like to know you better.
00:13:16 Go wild.
00:16:43 It's all right, Mother.
00:20:13 When your brother goes to sell your family's status...
00:23:27 This esoteric mystery is called 'change of lodging'.
00:27:16 Yes!
00:31:40 ...may I ask that you not mention the 'change of lodging'?
00:36:04 ...is dirty and rusted.
00:39:44 Wait here.
00:43:28 Do not fail in your duties.
00:48:00 I've had time to study.
00:52:37 No... I'll walk over next time I'm at the Castle.
00:57:29 But I can't rise to it, so I'll take it lying down.
01:02:07 'It serves you right' sounds a bit harsh, but...
01:06:59 There.
01:10:57 I'm sorry!
01:15:27 Against the new cannon of the rebel forces...
01:20:02 What a nice view!
01:23:51 Who to?!
01:27:59 ...at the temple in Ueno.
01:32:37 You must not waste your lives over the passions of a moment!
01:38:06 I'm with you.