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.
00:04:48 Have one on the house.
00:10:09 Shall we?
00:13:31 I have to laugh.
00:17:12 Yae!
00:20:37 We can't die.
00:23:59 Stop it, please!
00:28:02 Thank you. Give my regards to your mother.
00:32:33 No. Let's stop there.
00:36:55 Squire Sahei...
00:40:35 Hey, wait a minute.
00:44:53 You're the God of Disease.
00:50:01 I'm not in that post any more. I am merely a masterless samurai.
00:54:02 I hope you don't mean Inoue Gunbei! Poverty's already afflicted him.
01:00:00 Sahei!
01:03:09 That's Hiko for you! I knew I could count on you.
01:08:44 So what will you do?
01:13:07 My job is to make it so you will die.
01:17:03 ...he abandoned his men.
01:21:53 ...the limits to life don't make it flash.
01:25:59 O-Tsuya!
01:30:27 Wait a while.
01:36:26 Magnificent!
01:47:21 Directed by Yasuo Furuhata