Eijirô Tôno credited as playing...
Gonji - Tavern Keeper
- Gonji - Tavern Keeper: You'll gain nothing by getting sucked into this evil. Eat quickly and leave.
- Sanjuro Kuwabatake: I've had enough rice. Give me some sake. I like it here. I'll stay awhile.
- Gonji - Tavern Keeper: What'll you do now?
- Sanjuro Kuwabatake: Go next door and buy a coffin.
- Gonji - Tavern Keeper: How can you give up like that?
- Sanjuro Kuwabatake: You idiot! I'm not dying yet! There's a bunch of guys I have to kill first.
- Gonji, tavern keeper: Are you afraid of ghosts?
- Inokichi, Ushitora's rotund brother: No they make me feel just great.
- Sanjuro: [standing by the window of Gonji's inn, looking into the opposite building where men from Ushitora and Seibei's sides are serving the inspector and his aides tea] A country inspector's not much, but that's a fine-looking palanquin, huh?
- [He turns to Gonji for a reaction. The tavern keeper doesn't turn around, and just stares gloomily at nothing. Sanjuro turns back to the spectacle. He bursts out laughing at what he sees]
- Gonji, tavern keeper: What's so funny?
- Sanjuro: His men are drinking tea.
- Gonji, tavern keeper: What of it?
- Sanjuro: Look here.
- [He laughs again at the scene]
- Sanjuro: They've added a little something.
- Gonji - Tavern Keeper: Only swords can settle things now. They're fuming, rounding up drifters and criminals for their gangs. Instead of buying silk, they're buying thugs.
- Gonji - Tavern Keeper: There he goes again! The casket maker. Only guy in town making any money. Can't make coffins fast enough. It's best not to have any gamblers at all. One boss to a town we can tolerate, but two is a disaster. Only the casket maker profits from that. Knock it off, you bastard!
- Gonji - Tavern Keeper: Evil bastard came back, did he? He looks as gentle as the zodiac Rabbit he's named after, but he's a wolf inside.
- Gonji - Tavern Keeper: Poor fellow. His wife was too beautiful. It all started when he lost to Ushitora at gambling. If she were ugly, he'd only have lost his house. But old Tokuemon was drooling all over her. Ushitora saw a change to draw Tokuemon to his side. He took the wife and house and dangled them in front of Tokuemon. This poor fool built a hut right next to his former house just so he could watch helplessly as Tokuemon ravishes his wife every day.
- Sanjuro Kuwabatake: You're unusually friendly today. What's going on? Gives me the creeps. Aren't you angry that I became Ushitora's bodyguard?
- Gonji - Tavern Keeper: Not at all. You're not a bad guy after all.
- Sanjuro Kuwabatake: What?
- Gonji - Tavern Keeper: You're not really bad. You just pretend to be.
- Inokichi - Ushitora's Rotund Brother: Where are the ghosts?
- Gonji - Tavern Keeper: They only appear to scaredy-cats like me, not to brave guys like you.