Toshirô Mifune credited as playing...
Mohei
- Saizo Muin: [as Mohei has wrestled him down] Wait! Wait, wait, wait! You're from the castle, aren't you?
- Mohei: You don't look like someone from the castle either.
- Saizo Muin: Are you an Oga man or a Koga man?
- Mohei: I'm just a man.
- Saizo Muin: Aren't you a ninja?
- Mohei: Are you a ninja?
- Saizo Muin: Oh, I know who you are.
- Mohei: Hold it. I don't have any ninja friends.
- Saizo Muin: When they dangled you from Horai Bridge, I was the one who cut the rope. Don't you remember?
- [Mohei is suspended from a bridge by a rope, kicking, flailing and trying to pull himself up]
- Mohei: Why don't you just let me down? Let me down now!
- Mountain samurai: We can't let you off so easily. An outlaw like you should be tortured to death.
- [the samurai poke at Mohei with sticks, but Mohei tries beating them back with his own stick. A mysterious, well-dressed man comes by and sees the commotion]
- Saizo Muin: Mr. Mountain Samurai, you're being too cruel to a human life.
- Mountain samurai: What?
- Saizo Muin: Even a frog would return to curse you if you made it suffer a slow death.
- Mountain samurai: We're making an example out of him.
- Saizo Muin: There are other ways to make an example.
- Mountain samurai: What would you do, then?
- Saizo Muin: I'd do this if I were you.
- [He cuts the rope, sending Mohei plunging into the river]
- Mountain samurai: Damn you!
- [He lunges at the stranger but he dodges his blows and bounds over the crowd onto one of the bridge beams]
- Saizo Muin: Remember me. I'm Kirigakure Saizo.
- Mountain samurai: Get him!
- [the samurai start off in pursuit, but one of the other samurai diverts their attention to something else: a young woman has pulled Mohei from the river and is rowing away]
- Mohei: I came to Osaka to work. Because we joined the Battle of Sekigahara, everyone in my family died while I survived. Now that I'm a war orphan, I came to Osaka to work and start my life over.