Tatsuya Nakadai credited as playing...
Tatewaki Asano
- Isaburo Sasahara: You be quiet now, Tomi. Don't cry even if I don't return. In that case, he will become your foster father and raise you. Well, then.
- Tatewaki Asano: Lose this duel. Let me remain. It's better that way.
- Isaburo Sasahara: What?
- Tatewaki Asano: Isaburo, lose to me. For Tomi's sake.
- Isaburo Sasahara: No. No matter how strong you are, how perfect your defense, I'll defeat you and go to Edo with Tomi.
- Tatewaki Asano: Then... I will win. Without fail. I will win without fail.
- Tatewaki Asano: Will you draw on your secret principles of swordplay? Push and you step back. Push further, and you step back further. But at the last moment, you skillfully switch from defense to offense. Yet you never attack. You wait until your opponent tires. In other words, until he gives up.
- Sanzaemon Yanase: We must gather men, use force and kill them. Get ready.
- Tatewaki Asano: A foolish idea.
- Sanzaemon Yanase: What?
- Tatewaki Asano: Isaburo's a swordsman without peer. You'll only make more trouble by sending men. In order to settle matters quietly, send Lady Ichi back to the Sasahara family for now, and then later...
- Sanzaemon Yanase: What? Don't talk nonsense!
- Tatewaki Asano: But Chamberlain, resort to violence and you'll have mountains of dead and wounded men.
- Isaburo Sasahara: The god who came down in February and brought the rice harvest departs tomorrow until his return next year.
- Tatewaki Asano: Do you really believe that?
- Isaburo Sasahara: No, I was just... The hearts of children are docile and precious. They sing, believing it.
- Tatewaki Asano: What nerve. He's not thinking of you or your family. Only outward appearance and influence matter with him.
- Tatewaki Asano: I'd like to put her in the house away from the wind. But men we dislike are in there. Venomous men.
- Tatewaki Asano: Isaburo Sasahara of the escort group... where are you going?
- Isaburo Sasahara: Tomi and I are going to Edo.
- Tatewaki Asano: If this is for the clan, show me your pass. If it's private business, show me the clan ticket.
- Isaburo Sasahara: I have neither.
- Tatewaki Asano: Then I'm afraid I cannot let you pass.
- Isaburo Sasahara: We must go to Edo though we have no permit.
- Tatewaki Asano: You mean to pass from this domain without having either?
- Isaburo Sasahara: Yes.
- Tatewaki Asano: To carry out my duty and uphold my honor as a samurai, I must forbid it. If you insist on breaking our law and passing through this gate, I must stop you at the risk of my life.
- Isaburo Sasahara: That can't be helped.