Ending
Hi recorded this the other night off tv but my recording cut out before the end of the movie. The last thing i saw was Hiroyuki fighting the guy in the house. Can anyone please fill me in?
shareThe guy in the house loses the duel because his sword gets caught in the rafters, allowing Seibei to kill him. He returns home to his family, and then it shows a brief epilogue.
Seibei's daughter, now an old woman, thinks back about her father as she burns insense at his grave, and it is revealed that after he returned home he received more money and land and they lived together peacefully for a few years, until during a civil war Seibei was shot and killed. But she says that even though he was very unlucky he was still a good man for being so devoted to his family.
thank you so much! :)
shareI'm not sure if the English subtitles showed the ending differently, but the Chinese subtitles said that Seibei and Tomoe lived for three years before the civil war killed Seibei.
Also, the daughter was saying that many people who think Seibei was a very unfortunate man, but Seibei himself would've never thought so, and would think he lived a good life.
Right! Saying that it was said he was an unlucky man is turning the whole ending upside down!
shareThe English subtitles, at least the ones I'm getting from the official u.s. dvd should be close to the translation you are working from.
The daughter pretty much says her father "had no desire to rise in the world..." Meaning he was not ambitious or sought anything more than he needed. Then the next subtitle to appear is "... and I don't think he considered himself unlucky."