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Pilot.
Pilot!
You must wake up!
What?
Konnichi wa, anjin.
You must greet him.
Say konnichi wa and bow.
Konnichi wa, omi.
You must say omi-san.
Why?
San means "honorable."
It is an insult if you leave it off.
Say it quickly and bow.
Konnichi wa, omi-san.
You must get dressed, quickly.
Konnichi wa.
Is she his wife?
Wife? No.
Who is she?
The woman is a harlot...
common whore, and damned for all eternity.
A slave ship.
You can't stop now, not if you want to live.
Come, pilot.
Anjin.
Anjin-san.
Hai, omi-san.
No, i'm not going on a slaver.
Damn slave ship, and i won't set foot on it!
It's a god-cursed slaver,
and you'll never make me go on board!
Leave him alone.
Did he hear what i said?
Leave him alone!
Is he the pilot, the anjin, ka?
You the pilot of the dutchman?
Aye, i'm the pilot. Who are you?
Good, good.
I'm vasco rodrigues, pilot of this galley,
at least on this miserable trip.
Rotten-to-hell...
that's better.
Listen, pilot, that man is like a king.
I told him that i'd be responsible for you,
and that i'd as soon blow your damned head off
as drink with you.
Now bow to the bloody sama.
You do that like a jappo.
You really the pilot?
Aye.
What's the latitude of the lizard?
49 degrees, 56 minutes north, and watch out for the reefs,
and bear south by southwest.
You're the pilot, by god.
Come aboard.
There's food and grog
and all pilots should love all pilots. Amen. Right?
Right, but where are you taking me?
Osaka. The great lord high executioner himself
wants to see you.
Who?
Toranaga, lord of the eight provinces,
whatever the hell they may be.
He's the chief daimyo over this whole bloody country.
What does he want with me?
Well, how the hell would i know?
But if he wants to see you, by god, he'll see you.
Now, give him a nice little jappo bow, and on you go.
Do it, ingeles.
Ship's confiscated, ingeles.
Confiscated?
What about my crew?
Oh, they'll be all right.
Listen, there's nothing that you or me can do about it now.
You'll just have to wait and see what happens.
You'll never tell with the jappos.
They're all six-faced and three-hearted.
Hey...
madonna, she looks fast, your ship.
Where was she built, rotterdam?
Aye.
Do you think we could go aboard her?
I'd like to collect my gear,
and you could have a closer look.
I'll blow your head off, ingeles,
if you've got some damn trick up your sleeve.
I give you my word, pilot to pilot...
and i'll swear on your mother's virtue.
I'm beginning to like you, ingeles.
Hey!
Ima!
Ima, it is.
Ima means "now, at once."
We're to leave at once.
Please ask him if i can go aboard my ship.
No, ingeles, i won't ask him a poxy thing.
I have your word?
You have it.
Come on.
There's a boat down there, ingeles.
Move fast...
...don't look around,
and don't listen to anybody but me... go.
Don't worry, captain-san, i am responsible! Me!
Sit there.
Not to worry, captain-san.
You get ship ready.
Watch them carefully, ingeles. Tell me what they're doing.
The bowmen are taking out arrows.
Madonna, they're too cursed accurate with those things.
Are they getting ready to shoot?
Yes, they... no, wait a minute, they're...
the captain's talking to them.
Damn all samurai, anyway.
Why?
They love to kill, ingeles.
They even sleep with their swords.
And they fear nothing, least of all, death.
If a samurai's lord says "kill," he kills.
Their lord says, "die,"
he'd slit his own belly open just like that.
I saw omi-san kill a man in the village
just because the man didn't bow.
And you'd better remember that, ingeles.
The samurai rule everything here.
They have the right to kill anyone who isn't a samurai
whenever they feel like it.
Man, woman, or child, it doesn't matter.
They all serve their master.
That's what the word means, ingeles.
Samurai means "to serve."
And if you forget your bloody manners,
they'll serve your head up for you.
I didn't see you bow and scrape.
That's because i'm me, rodrigo-san.
I am important because i act important.
They understand that.
Here you don't ask, you act.
Of course, sometimes you get killed if you act wrong.
Right.
Konnichi wa...
to all sod-eating samas.
Bow like i did.
Right. Let's go and get your gear.
Kinjiru, eh?
Well, not for me, it isn't bloody kinjiru.
I am rodrigo-san.
Ichi ban bloody pilot to toda hiro-matsu-sama.
Toda hiro-matsu-sama, ka?
Well, i'm from toda hiro-matsu-sama,
who's a bigger king than your bugger,
and toda-sama's from toranaga-sama,
who's the biggest bugger in this whole world. Neh?
Get ready to abandon ship.
Toranaga-sama!
Hai.
That's bloody well better.
Those sons of plague-infested lice!
They've taken everything!
God curse all jappos.
Well, since there's nothing here,
why don't you take a look at the ship?
Where are they, ingeles?
What?
Your rutters, your charts.
You've hidden them somewhere.
Well, that's why you wanted to come on board.
No pilot would worry about clothes.
You came for your rutters,
and now you want me to get out of here
so that you can get them.
You're right.
That's why i wanted to come...
but they were in here.
Oh, i don't want to steal them, ingeles.
I just want to read them, maybe copy a part or two.
They were in the sea chest.
Oh, madonna, what a liar!
You wouldn't have left them in there.
Now, come on, we haven't got much time.
Look, i took your word, now you take mine,
pilot to pilot.
I won't steal them.
Damn!
Stolen!
What?!
Do i believe you, ingeles?
Ah, i think so.
This was where you kept them?
Yes.
Everything?
Even your portuguese rutter?
Oh, come on, ingeles!
It had to be portuguese.
How else would you have found your way here?
Yes, damn it, even the portuguese rutter.
That's gone, too.
Halfway around the earth, and no way to get home.
Lord, give me strength!
I know what you feel, ingeles.
I feel sorry for you.
It happened to me once.
He was ingeles, too... the thief.
May his ship drown, and he burn in hell forever.
Come on, let's get back to my ship.
You never saw a slaver move like this...
even with an infidel turk whipping them to a lather.
Those are samurai rowers, ingeles.
They'll stroke till they drop dead
if lord toranaga wants them to.
How far is this place you're taking me?
Osaka? Oh... 300-odd sea miles,
and we'll be there in less than 40 hours.
Hey, captain-san!
West-southwest.
I guess you know your compass, ingeles.
These galleys normally hug the coast for safety,
but that would take too much time,
and time is important.
Toranaga asked me to pilot otura to anjiro and back quickly,
and there's a bonus for me if we're on time.
You work for toranaga?
Me work for him? Hell, no.
I was just visiting osaka... my captain and me.
This was just a favor.
They're not good ocean sailors, the japmen.
They're great pirates, fighters,
and coastal sailors...
but the deep frightens them.
What are they going to do with me?
Whatever the hell they want to do.
What's your own ship like?
Oh, i'm the pilot of...
i keep forgetting... that you're the enemy, ingeles.
Portugal and england have been allies for centuries.
But we're not now.
Go below, ingeles. Get some rest.
If you want to sleep, use my cabin.
You're tired and so am i.
Tired men make mistakes.
How do you feel, ingeles?
Rested.
What do you think?
I think there'll be a storm.
When?
Before the day is out.
Now, that is a safe guess.
If this were your ship, what would you do?
How far is the nearest land?
Oh... three, maybe four hours.
If we run for cover, it'll cost me my bonus.
Oh, madonna.
I'm a tired man.
Then go sleep.
I'll take the watch for you.
If the wind changes, i'll wake you.
All right, ingeles, i think i'll trust you.
God knows why.
Maintain this course.
At the next turn, go four degrees more westerly,
and at the next, six more westerly.
Wakarimasu ka?
Hai. Four degrees westerly it is.
Go below, pilot. Your bunk's comfortable.
Ah, priest, what have you given me?
God curse me and my lack of wits.
There's a storm there, all right,
and this craft won't take much water.
How was your sleep?
Short.
And more than i would've had if you weren't here.
Can't be tai-fun.
What?
Tai-fun... huge winds.
Worst storms you've ever seen.
We're not in the tai-fun season.
When's that?
It's not now, enemy.
Still, it looks rotten enough,
so maybe i'll take your miserable advice
and head for land.
Steer nor' by west.
Nor' by west, aye.
Hey, captain-san!
Isogi, wakarimasu ka? Isogi!
What's that... isogi... "hurry up"?
Well, there's no harm in you
learning a little bit of japman talk, ingeles.
All you need here is about ten words,
and then you can make the buggers dance
if you want them to.
That's if they're the right words...
and if they're in the mood.
Wakarimasu ka?
Wakarimasu.
Hey, ingeles...
i think maybe you learn too damn fast.
Go forward. Get them to start bailing!
Make them understand. Hurry, hurry!
Ship oars! Stop rowing!
Stop rowing!
What do you think, ingeles?
You do what you want, whatever i think,
but she won't take much water.
We'll go down like a stone.
Ah...
and next time i go forward,
tell me you're putting her into the wind!
Ah, that was the hand of god, ingeles.
A wave slapped her rump around.
We'll keep her into the wind, then when the time's right,
we'll make a stab for the shore.
My nose tells me that, if we turn and run,
we're going to flounder!
If we don't turn, we'll never make it!
Well, for god's sake, ingeles, what would you do?
Wait till we're just past the near headland,
then fall off from the wind
and make those rowers pull for their lives!
That's dangerous.
I know!
All right.
I'll go forward. You take the helm.
Watch me, and when i signal,
go west-nor'west for the shore.
You watch me very closely.
I will!
Hey.
You'll wait for my order, and obey my orders.
Do you want me to take the helm or not?
I have to trust you again, ingeles,
and i hate trusting you!
Steady as she goes!
Hard aport... now!
Hard aport... aye!
Pull, you buggers!
One, two, one, two, one, two!
One, two, one...
damn you, rodrigues!
Rodrigues?
Yabu-san, thank you for saving his life.
Thank you for your courage.
Thank you, you black-eyed son of a whore.
Hai, omi-san.
Omi-san says you may come up, one by one.
Lord kasigi yabu has said
that you may live in the world of men again,
but the smallest breaking of a rule,
and you'll all be put back in this pit.
What about the pilot?
What's happened to him?
If you don't come out now, you will stay down there.
Where's the other man?
Captain-general spillbergen's dead, god rest his soul.
He's down there lying in the filth.
Omi-san wants you to bow to him.
He wants us to come. Come on.
So, now i owe you a life, ingeles.
Oh!
God curse you.
It was kasigi yabu who saved your miserable body.
Curse him.
No. No, those jappos
would never have come after me if it weren't for you.
The curse is thine.
There's a bottle of grog over there.
Here...
ah. You'd make a foul nurse, ingeles.
It's your black heart.
Bring the bottle over here.
How do you feel?
Mmm, better... considering my head's on fire,
and my mouth tastes like a barrel of pig swill.
Hey, eh-eh-eh... just give me the bottle.
This, uh, toranaga...
why does he want to see me?
I don't know.
By the blessed virgin, i don't know,
but since i owe you something,
here's some truth in part payment.
Never forget that the japmen
are six-faced and have three hearts...
so be careful, ingeles... be careful what you say,
be careful how you move...
even be careful how you think,
especially with toranaga.
Toranaga.
What's he like?
Same as the rest of them, only worse.
They had 600 years of civil war in this country, ingeles,
till about 35 years ago,
when this monkey-sama by the name of goroda
conquered half of all japan and made himself ichi ban,
lord of the whole rotten country.
And you know who helped him? Toranaga.
Then... well, i guess it was 16 years ago...
one of his own generals killed goroda,
and another general stepped right into his sandals...
general nakamura.
And do you know who helped him?
Toranaga.
Right, ingeles.
Toranaga... and another big monkey-sama, ishido.
Toranaga in the east, ishido in the west.
Sooner or later, there'll be another bloody civil war.
Madonna, i think i got drunk last night, ingeles.
Where are we?
On course, pilot.
You're the pilot now.
Ooh... oh, a person could think that that was funny.
You're supposed to be the prisoner.
You could be taking us anywhere.
But you...
you wouldn't do that.
If they were taking me to ishido's castle,
i'd be damned if i'd be sailing them there.
Ishido?
I thought they were taking me to toranaga.
And so they are, ingeles,
except that toranaga is in osaka castle
for the meeting of the regents
and osaka castle belongs to ishido...
and what a butcher he is.
Hell, they all are.
Everything in this bloody country's upside-down.
What are you steering?
South by southwest.
How do you know? Who told you?
You did.
Me?
Madonna, it's all in a haze.
You looked in my rutter!
Ah, ingeles, life is so strange...
and if i live, it is by the grace of god,
helped by a heretic and a japman.
There's the sod-eating-sama.
I'd better go and thank him.
You're a dangerous man, ingeles.
Maybe we'd all be better off if they killed you.
Osaka...
the white castle city of lord ishido.
An escort of 20 samurai was on the dock,
wearing the brown uniform of toranaga's army.
Under the command of toranaga's youngest son,
lord naga.
Konnichi wa, naga-san.
Bow, ingeles, it's toranaga's fifth son.
Konnichi wa.
Konnichi wa, rodrigues-san.
Konnichi wa.
All right, that should keep him happy. Come on.
Now what's the matter?
You're staying onboard, ingeles.
Why?
Wouldn't do any good to ask.
When toranaga's ready, you'll find out.
Go with god, ingeles.
And you.