Samurai Assassin (I) (1965)

Toshirô Mifune: Tsuruchiyo Niiro

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Quotes 

• [Einosuke goes to the Sagamiya House, and enters the room where Tsuruchiyo is staying. He finds Tsuruchiyo lying flat on his back on the floor, surrounded by sake bottles and snoring like a drain] 

  Einosuke Kurihara : Niiro.

  [Tsuruchiyo doesn't wake up. Einosuke shakes the sleeping swordsman's shoulder] 

  Einosuke Kurihara : Niiro.

  [Tsuruchiyo wakes up with a grunt. He heaves himself up] 

  Tsuruchiyo Niiro : Ugh... what's up?

  Einosuke Kurihara : What do you mean, "what's up"? I heard from Kojima Kaname that you're here all the time, so I became worried. Come on, let's go home.

  [Tsuruchiyo blearily rubs his neck and scratches the back of his ear] 

  Einosuke Kurihara : Don't worry about the bill... I've taken care of it.

  Tsuruchiyo Niiro : What did you say?

  Einosuke Kurihara : I've taken care of it, the whole thing.

  Tsuruchiyo Niiro : [defensively]  It's none of your concern. Madam Okiku took the money from you, then?

  Einosuke Kurihara : No, I didn't see the Madam. I was told that she was visiting a lumber-yard in Fuyuki Village, in Fukagawa. This struck me as somewhat strange, but... I paid the head clerk.

  Tsuruchiyo Niiro : [indignantly]  Like I told you, you should've minded your own business! You don't pay the clerk! But, the fact that she went to the Fuka-gawa lumberyard is interesting. The fact that Okiku did that...

  [He laughs] 

  Tsuruchiyo Niiro : Now that makes me laugh!

  [He laughs even louder and more uproariously] 

• Tsuruchiyo Niiro : In order to stay dry, you've got to cross bridges, no matter how dangerous.

• [Tsuruchiyo staggers through the bloodstained, snow-covered courtyard, carrying Ii's head on the tip of his sword, his eyes filled with mad triumph] 

  Tsuruchiyo Niiro : Look! I won't let this head go for less than 200-koku! No... even 300 would be a bargain! Look! Here's today's paramount achievement! Elder li's head is in the hands of a Bishu ronin, Tsurichiyo Niiro!