Shōgun (TV Series)

Servants of Two Masters (2024)

Joaquim de Almeida: Father Domingo

Quotes 

• John Blackthorne : You're telling me the lords here don't know?

  Father Domingo : It's too late for that now.

  John Blackthorne : You don't understand. I must tell them. That's my way out.

  Father Domingo : You can't play their game. Their rules are too opaque, their hearts too guarded.

  John Blackthorne : You don't know me.

  Father Domingo : I've known a thousand of you.

• Father Domingo : Another soul for every hour of the day.It's nothing for you to fear now.You'll die a martyr.On the cross, perhaps.

  John Blackthorne : I'm sorry, Father, I didn't come all this way around the world just to die on a cross.

• Father Domingo : Dear God, you're a child in the wilderness. You don't know their games. Toranaga is a prisoner in Osaka castle. Isolated by his rivals on the Council of Regents. There's Sugiyama, descended from the richest samurai family in Japan. Ohno, a feared warrior, whose affliction of leprosy led him into the arms of the Church. And Kiyama, a man whose faith in Christ is guided only by his greed and ambition. All of them are in the palm of Ishido, caretaker of the castle. Any day now, these men will vote on Toranaga's demise.

• Father Domingo : I came here in '72, clutching my rosary, visions of the souls I would save. Then I learned the true tenets of the cloth: silk, gold and guns. These Jesuits care nothing for their souls. They've made an idol of that cursed Black Ship. That's how they dominate trade. The Chinese hate Japan. So all trade goes through the Portuguese. It's usury. The late Taiko even tried to put a stop to it, but the Church had incited the rebellion, smuggled guns from that secret base in Macao... I met a man who said he'd been to that fortress, said there were Japanese soldiers... hundreds of them... all converted to Catholicism.

• Father Domingo : Toranaga was born Minowara. A name that carries great weight in Japan. For centuries, his ancestors dominated this country, carrying with them a divine mandate.

  John Blackthorne : Mandate?

  Father Domingo : A title, revered through the ages. The ultimate rank a mortal can achieve. Shogun.

• Father Domingo : Hear me, my son.I alone will tell you the truth. If Toranaga claimed you as an ally, you'll never leave Japan alive.

• Father Domingo : Hear me my son

  Father Domingo : I alone will tell you the truth