Yoshio Inaba credited as playing...
Gorobei Katayama
- Kambei Shimada: Go to the north. The decisive battle will be fought there.
- Gorobei Katayama: Why didn't you build a fence there?
- Kambei Shimada: A good fort needs a gap. The enemy must be lured in. So we can attack them. If we only defend, we lose the war.
- Gorobei Katayama: The threshing's done and still no bandits. Everyone's saying they might not come after all.
- Kambei Shimada: A tempting thought. But when you think you're safe is precisely when you're most vulnerable.
- Heihachi Hayashida: Haven't you ever seen anyone cut firewood before?
- Gorobei Katayama: You seem to enjoy it.
- Heihachi Hayashida: That's just the way I am. Yah!
- [he chops another log]
- Gorobei Katayama: You're good!
- Heihachi Hayashida: Not really. It's a lot harder than killing enemies. Yah!
- [he splits another log]
- Gorobei Katayama: Have you killed many?
- Heihachi Hayashida: Since it's impossible to kill them all - yah!
- [he splits another log]
- Heihachi Hayashida: I usually run away.
- Gorobei Katayama: A splendid principle.
- Heihachi Hayashida: Thank you. Yah!
- Gorobei Katayama: How did you fare?
- Kambei Shimada: We let a good fish get away. An excellent swordsman.
- Gorobei Katayama: [laughs] They say the fish that gets away looks bigger than it really is.
- Gorobei Katayama: I'm with you. But I have to say that although I understand the farmers' suffering and understand why you would take up their cause, it's your character that I find most compelling. In life one finds friends in the strangest places.
- [Gorobei is watching Heihachi, who is methodically splitting logs]
- Gorobei Katayama: How'd you like to kill thirty bandits?
- [Heihachi spins around in surprise as his axe swings wide]
- Gorobei Katayama: Where shall we start our patrol?
- Kambei Shimada: The spot that worries us the most, of course.
- [Kambei and Gorobei arrive at a campfire near one of the roads, and find Kikuchiyo lying on the ground, his head propped up against a log and his feet resting on another log. He is supposed to be on guard, but is sound asleep. His sword is stuck upright in a pile of logs. Kambei and Gorobei exchange glances as they approach their snoring comrade. Softly Kambei comes forward and takes the sword away. The two hide behind a straw hut. Gorobei throws a rock, which wakes Kikuchiyo with a start. Kikuchiyo scrambles to the pile where his sword had been]
- Kikuchiyo: Who's there?
- [He feels around for the sword, only to find it gone. He grabs a log from the pile and brandishes it]
- Kikuchiyo: Who's there? Come on out!
- Kambei Shimada: Kikuchiyo.
- [Kikuchiyo whirls around to see Kambei and Gorobei standing behind him]
- Kambei Shimada: You're lucky it was us. If it had been the bandits...
- [He tosses Kikuchiyo his confiscated Nodachi]
- Kambei Shimada: ... You'd be looking for your head.
- [Kikuchiyo sinks down to his knees by the fire. He is so ashamed he can't speak]