E1 - The Death Row Convict and the Executioner

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[00:30] Narration
    Beheading requires a high degree of skill.
[00:34] Narration
    The neck, which is composed of strong bones
[00:38] Narration
    and more than ten layers of muscles,
    is not easily severed.
[00:42] Executioner
    Any last words?
[00:44] Gabimaru
    No.
[00:47] Narration
    Furthermore, beheading a person
    with a single blow is next to impossible.
[00:50] Narration
    In most cases, several blows
    are required to behead a person,
[00:53] Narration
    which makes executions a horrific spectacle.
[01:13] Executioner
    Impossible.
[01:16] Gabimaru
    Why? Why can't I die?
[01:18] Gabimaru
    No, why won't I die?
[01:23] Gabimaru
    I have no attachment to life.
[01:29] Gabimaru
    I've killed countless people until now.
[01:33] Gabimaru
    I don't expect to live a long life.
SIGN    The Death Row Convict and the Executioner
[03:12] Sagiri
    Your name is Gabimaru.
[03:15] Sagiri
    Born a shinobi in the village of Iwagakure,
[03:17] Sagiri
    you studied only assassination techniques
    since you were a child.
[03:22] Sagiri
    Many lose their lives during training,
     but in exchange,
[03:24] Sagiri
    those who survive develop
    superhuman bodies.
[03:29] Sagiri
    I see.
[03:30] Sagiri
    For someone from Iwagakure,
[03:32] Sagiri
    breaking a blade with your
    own flesh is a simple task.
[03:36] Gabimaru
    Well, yeah.
[03:38] Gabimaru
    Someone that shitty
    with a sword can't hurt me.
[03:40] Gabimaru
    I didn't even have to use any ninjutsu.
[03:42] Sagiri
    You can use ninjutsu?
[03:45] Sagiri
    Could you show me some?
[03:47] Gabimaru
    Why?
[03:48] Sagiri
    As a matter of personal interest.
[03:50] Gabimaru
    In that case, no.
[03:51] Police Sergeant
    Burn him at the stake!
[03:53] Narration
    Being burnt at the stake is normally
    the punishment for arson.
[03:58] Narration
    Searing the flesh inflicts incredible pain.
[04:01] Narration
    The heat causes the muscles to shrink,
[04:03] Narration
    bending the body so severely
    that bones break.
[04:06] Narration
    Ultimately, the person dies
    when they suffocate
[04:08] Narration
    or are poisoned by
    the smoke produced by the flame.
[04:10] Narration
    It is an incredibly
    painful execution method.
[04:15] Narration
    Sometimes the person
    is killed beforehand as a mercy.
[04:21] Gabimaru
    Uh, sorry.
[04:42] Jailer A
    B-But the flames are enormous...
[04:47] Gabimaru
    I'm not trying to resist.
[04:52] Gabimaru
    If anything, I wish you'd kill me.
[04:54] Sagiri
    I see.
[04:56] Gabimaru
    If you're gonna look away,
    then why not give me clothes?
[04:58] Gabimaru
    C'mon, c'mon.
[05:01] Sagiri
    My job is to record events,
    and your nudity is no obstacle.
[05:06] Sagiri
    Please continue.
[05:08] Gabimaru
    My background's not
    very interesting, you know.
[05:11] Sagiri
    It's my job.
[05:16] Gabimaru
    My parents? I dunno.
[05:19] Gabimaru
    I was only told they were killed
    by the village chief when I was a baby.
[05:23] Gabimaru
    I don't know why.
[05:25] Gabimaru
    I don't have any feelings about it.
[05:28] Gabimaru
    Dreams? Don't have any.
[05:31] Gabimaru
    Shinobi don't have any great purpose.
[05:34] Gabimaru
    They just kill as they're told.
[05:39] Gabimaru
    Why was I caught?
[05:41] Gabimaru
    Well, uh...
[05:44] Gabimaru
    I tried to leave the village.
[05:45] Gabimaru
    I was captured on a job
    when my cohorts betrayed me.
[05:49] Gabimaru
    The village chief probably
    put them up to it.
[05:52] Gabimaru
    The village doesn't allow anyone to leave.
[05:54] Gabimaru
    It's not like they had a choice.
[05:57] Sagiri
    Why did you try to leave
    the village in the first place?
[06:01] Police Sergeant
    Have him torn apart by bulls!
[06:04] Narration
    In execution by bulls, ropes tied
    to a person's legs are pulled by bulls.
[06:09] Narration
    Human legs can withstand up
    to 500 kilograms of force,
[06:13] Narration
    but bulls exert 950 kilograms of force.
[06:16] Narration
    The method not only
    removes the person's legs,
[06:18] Narration
    but also splits them from groin to chest.
[06:40] Gabimaru
    Oh, uh...
[06:45] Police Sergeant
    At this rate, the magistrate's
    office will be disgraced.
[06:48] Police Sergeant
    Bring more bulls!
[06:51] Sagiri
    It's strange.
[06:53] Gabimaru
    My shinobi's body?
[06:55] Sagiri
    No.
[06:57] Sagiri
    Despite saying you want to be killed,
    it seems to me as though you were resisting.
[07:02] Sagiri
    Why would someone with no will to live...
[07:05] Sagiri
    Never mind.
[07:06] Sagiri
    Why did you try to leave the village?
[07:10] Sagiri
    Will you answer the question
    I asked you yesterday?
[07:14] Police Sergeant
    Who cares about the record? Just kill—
[07:16] Sagiri
    I'm working.
[07:18] Jailer A
    Um, the bulls—
[07:19] Sagiri
    I'm working.
[07:20] Gabimaru
    Whatever.
[07:21] Sagiri
    I'm work...
[07:22] Gabimaru
    It wasn't for an interesting reason.
[07:25] Gabimaru
    I was the best in Iwagakure.
[07:29] Gabimaru
    I had the chief's recognition,
    and married his daughter.
[07:35] Gabimaru
    But his daughter was a real idiot.
[07:39] Gabimaru
    I don't know how a shinobi's,
[07:41] Gabimaru
    much less the chief's daughter,
    ends up like that.
[07:46] Gabimaru
    She was a carefree, naïve,
    and sheltered girl.
[07:49] Gaibmaru
    She turned my life upside down.
[07:53] (Flashback) Yui
    Remove your shoes when you come inside.
[07:56] (Flashback) Yui
    Pray once a day.
[07:59] (Flashback) Yui
    Say "thanks for the meal" together and
    express gratitude for the life we've taken.
[08:05] Gabimaru
    I was totally bewildered,
    and I got fed up with her.
[08:08] Gabimaru
    I didn't want to lose my edge.
[08:12] (Flashback) Village Chief
    If that's the case,
    then there's no helping it.
[08:15] (Flashback) Village Chief
    But could you do one last job for me?
[08:25] Gabimaru
    I knew I'd been set up.
[08:28] Gabimaru
    But I also knew the people of Iwagakure would
    follow me everywhere, even if I escaped.
[08:33] Gabimaru
    It was over the moment
    I was caught in their trap.
[08:36] Gabimaru
    It was stupid of me to defy the chief
    in the first place, so I gave up.
[08:43] Gabimaru
    Well? Not a very interesting reason, is it?
[08:51] Jailer B
    Perhaps I should mind my own business,
[08:54] Jailer B
    but a woman shouldn't
    get involved with him.
[08:58] Jailer B
    Do you know what his name is?
[09:02] Sagiri
    Isn't he Gabimaru,
    former shinobi of Iwagakure?
[09:06] Jailer B
    I mean his other name.
[09:13] Jailer B
    Gabimaru the Hollow.
[09:15] Jailer B
    He's a hollow man, without blood or tears.
[09:20] Jailer B
    A monster who killed 20 men
    when he was arrested.
[09:25] Jailer B
    Rumor is the shinobi of Iwagakure
    consume an Elixir of Life.
[09:30] Jailer B
    The medicine of immortality
    that comes from Shinsenkyo.
[09:34] Sagiri
    The Elixir...
[09:36] Jailer B
    Forgive me for speaking such nonsense.
[09:39] Jailer B
    In any case, he's dangerous.
[09:42] Sagiri
    Are you sure about that?
[09:45] Sagiri
    Why would a hollow man fight back so
    hard that he killed 20 people?
[09:54] Sagiri
    Despite saying you want to be killed,
    it seems to me as though you were resisting.
[10:01] Gabimaru
    She's right. What am I doing?
[10:05] Gabimaru
    Why don't I just die?
[10:08] Gabimaru
    I have no attachment to life.
[10:11] Gabimaru
    Tomorrow. I'll end it all tomorrow.
[10:15] Gabimaru
    With tomorrow's execution...
[10:23] Narration
    Death by boiling, also known as death
    by cauldron, uses a large quantity of oil.
[10:32] Narration
    Because oil combusts at a temperature
    of over 370 degrees, however,
[10:37] Narration
    it could not be kept boiling long in
    the earthen pots used during the Edo period.
[10:43] Gabimaru
    Why won't I die?
[10:46] Gabimaru
    Why am I still enduring this?
[10:49] Gabimaru
    I should have no lingering attachments.
[10:51] Gabimaru
    I should be empty.
[10:54] Police Sergeant
    Damn it! Why won't you die?
[11:03] Sagiri
    Sir, the arrangements have been made.
[11:07] Sagiri
    I'm ready to start at any time.
[11:16] Gabimaru
    What kind of execution is it this time?
[11:18] Gabimaru
    Honestly, I'm getting tired of this.
[11:21] Gabimaru
    When are you going to...
[11:24] Police Sergeant
    This will shut you up.
[11:36] Gabimaru
    What is this?
[11:39] Police Sergeant
    She's no mere inspector.
[11:44] Police Sergeant
    She's a sword-tester sent here from Edo.
[11:50] Police Sergeant
    The executioner Yamada Asaemon Sagiri.
[12:04] Narration
    Yamada Asaemon is the trade name
    of the Yamada Clan ronin
[12:11] Narration
    who have served as sword-testers
    and executioners for generations.
[12:16] Narration
    They are master swordsmen
    capable of testing swords
[12:19] Narration
    and beheading criminals
    with a single blow.
[12:21] Gabimaru
    You're an Asaemon... and a woman?
[12:24] Sagiri
    Yes, a woman.
[12:27] Sagiri
    Runaway shinobi Gabimaru from Isshu,
[12:29] Sagiri
    the shogunate has charged me
    with your execution.
[12:33] Sagiri
    You said you wanted someone to kill you.
[12:36] Sagiri
    I shall grant you your wish.
[12:46] Gabimaru
    She's the real deal.
[12:53] Police Sergeant
    Sagiri-dono, kill him, quickly.
[12:55] Sagiri
    At once.
[13:05] Sagiri
    Why did you evade my blow?
[13:07] Sagiri
    You'd have died if you hadn't moved.
[13:11] Gabimaru
    Could I have died?
[13:18] Gabimaru
    Do I not want to die?
[13:25] Sagiri
    Through my job, I've been present during
    the final moments of many.
[13:29] Sagiri
    I've learned to identify how people
    truly feel when they're dying.
[13:33] Sagiri
    A person's true nature
    is reflected in the blade.
[13:37] Sagiri
    Some put up a brave act
    until just before their death.
[13:41] Sagiri
    Some desperately beg for mercy.
[13:44] Sagiri
    And some lie to themselves
    and claim to have accepted death.
[13:50] Gabimaru
    What?
[13:51] Sagiri
    Gabimaru the Hollow.
[13:53] Sagiri
    There's certainly a great
    emptiness inside you.
[13:57] Sagiri
    I'm certain of it after listening
    to you describe your history.
[14:01] Sagiri
    But you lied about one thing.
[14:05] Sagiri
    You do have an attachment to life.
[14:07] Sagiri
    No, you love your wife.
[14:13] Sagiri
    To you, is she not your reason to live?
[14:21] (Flashback) Yui
    Pray once a day.
[14:24] (Flashback) Yui
    Say "thanks for the meal."
[14:26] (Flashback) Yui
    We should always strive to be ordinary,
[14:29] (Flashback) Yui
    so that we can be a married couple,
    like normal people.
[14:33] (Flashback) Yui
    You...
[14:42] Sagiri
    I'm right.
[14:44] Sagiri
    Why do you lie to yourself?
[14:46] Sagiri
    You couldn't die during your executions
    because of your feelings for her.
[14:51] Sagiri
    Are you not just telling yourself
    that you have no attachment to life?
[14:57] Gabimaru
    Shut up!
[14:59] Gabimaru
    I have no attachments!
[15:01] Gabimaru
    You know nothing about
    the world I've lived in!
[15:06] Gabimaru
    I am hollow!
[15:09] (Flashback) Yui
    You're not hollow.
[15:13] (Flashback) Gabimaru
    No, the nickname suits me.
[15:17] (Flashback) Gabimaru
    I've grown too accustomed
    to terrible, ugly things.
[15:20] (Flashback) Gabimaru
    I can only show you the same.
[15:28] (Flashback) Yui
    That's not true at all.
[15:31] (Flashback) Yui
    You're kind.
[15:32] (Flashback) Yui
    After all, you're the only one
    who wasn't repulsed by this face.
[15:40] (Flashback) Yui
    Maybe being accustomed to ugly
    things isn't so bad after all.
[15:46] (Flashback) Yui
    In Iwagakure, men are soldiers,
    and women bear children.
[15:51] (Flashback) Yui
    We're not allowed to live as people.
[15:55] (Flashback) Yui
    That's what happened to my face.
[15:59] (Flashback) Yui
    My father burned it so I'd give up on trying
    to live like an ordinary woman.
[16:05] (Flashback) Yui
    But people's hearts don't die so easily.
[16:11] (Flashback) Gabimaru
    But...
[16:22] (Flashback) Gabimaru
    What are you...
[16:25] (Flashback) Yui
    Look at how much you're blushing.
[16:27] (Flashback) Yui
    Someone like you couldn't
    possibly be hollow.
[16:31] Gabimaru
    I am Gabimaru the Hollow!
[16:36] Gabimaru
    I'm a heartless monster!
[16:40] Gabimaru
    Try as I might, I can never be human!
[16:55] Gabimaru
    I'll quit making
    a living by killing people.
[16:57] Gabimaru
    The two of us will live a quiet life.
[17:01] Gabimaru
    It's what's best for his daughter.
    The chief will understand.
[17:07] Gabimaru
    I won't kill anyone.
[17:09] Gabimaru
    We'll live in a quiet place.
[17:12] Gabimaru
    And live an ordinary life.
[17:19] Gabimaru
    Like normal people.
[17:21] Gabimaru
    It's impossible!
[17:24] Sagiri
    It's possible!
[17:28] Gabimaru
    What?
SIGN    Official Pardon
[17:31] Sagiri
    This is an official pardon.
[17:34] Sagiri
    Not only does it dismiss all charges,
[17:37] Sagiri
    but it even grants you
    the shogun's protection.
[17:40] Sagiri
    With this, neither the magistrate's office
    nor the village's shinobi could harm you.
[17:47] Gabimaru
    What are you talking about?
[17:48] Sagiri
    But it comes with a condition.
[17:51] Sagiri
    You will go to the Underworld.
[17:53] Gabimaru
    What?
[17:55] Gabimaru
    The Underworld? You mean the Other Side?
[17:58] Sagiri
    Yes.
[17:59] Gabimaru
    Are you telling me to die?
[18:01] Sagiri
    No.
[18:03] Sagiri
    There is a land brimming with fertility
    and joy, where there is no pain:
[18:07] Sagiri
    Shinsenkyo.
[18:09] Sagiri
    Believed in since ancient times, people have
[18:12] Sagiri
    called it Paradise,
    the Other Side, and Heaven.
[18:16] Sagiri
    It was said to be far to the southwest,
    beyond the Ryukyu Kingdom.
[18:22] Sagiri
    And it's finally been found.
[18:27] Sagiri
    Butterflies and flowers dance.
[18:29] Sagiri
    Beautiful voices can be heard singing.
[18:33] Sagiri
    It is as the legends describe.
[18:37] Sagiri
    It is said that the immortality-granting
    Elixir of Life can be found in Shinsenkyo.
[18:42] Sagiri
    The shogunate sent a search party
    there to acquire the Elixir.
[18:47] Sagiri
    However...
[19:16] Sagiri
    Five more expeditions were sent,
    but no one returned...
[19:25] Sagiri
    except for the things they became.
[19:29] Gabimaru
    W-Wait a minute.
[19:31] Gabimaru
    What kind of story is that?
[19:33] Gabimaru
    It sounds like a fairy tale.
[19:34] Sagiri
    Yes.
[19:36] Sagiri
    Everyone believed it was
    merely a fairy tale
[19:39] Sagiri
    until they saw that.
[19:42] (Flashback) Nariyoshi
    Humans became flowers?
[19:46] (Flashback) Nariyoshi
    How mysterious. How mystical.
[19:48] (Flashback) Nariyoshi
    That land must be real.
[19:51] (Flashback) Nariyoshi
    The Elixir of Life must be there.
[19:54] (Flashback) Nariyoshi
    Choose expendable people
    for the next expedition.
[19:57] (Flashback) Nariyoshi
    Gather criminals condemned to death from
[19:59] (Flashback) Nariyoshi
    around the country
    and send them to the island.
[20:02] (Flashback) Nariyoshi
    Whoever brings back the Elixir
    of Life will be pardoned.
[20:06] Sagiri
    I came here looking
    for potential candidates.
[20:11] Sagiri
    Someone with skill
    and a fierce desire to live.
[20:16] Sagiri
    On my way here, I heard your
    wife is still in Iwagakure.
[20:23] Sagiri
    Since the day you were captured,
[20:25] Sagiri
    she closed herself off
    and hasn't spoken to anyone.
[20:29] Sagiri
    She must believe you'll return.
[20:35] Sagiri
    I'll ask you again.
[20:36] Sagiri
    Do you have any attachment to life?
[20:39] Sagiri
    Traveling to a mysterious island
    with heinous criminals
[20:43] Sagiri
    condemned to death and competing
    with them for a pardon
[20:45] Sagiri
    is the only way for you
    to be reunited with her.
[20:50] Sagiri
    Will you risk that
[20:52] Sagiri
    for a life with her, Gabimaru the Hollow?
[20:58] Police Sergeant
    This is ridiculous.
[21:00] Police Sergeant
    I'm not releasing him over such nonsense.
[21:06] Sagiri
    The shogunate has commanded it.
[21:08] Police Sergeant
    He's merely a man condemned to death.
    There are plenty more like him.
[21:12] Police Sergeant
    If you interfere, you'll go down with him.
[21:17] Police Sergeant
    Are you listening, Hollow?
[21:19] Gabimaru
    Heartless, hollow...
[21:22] (Flashback) Yui
    People's hearts don't die so easily.
[21:35] Gabimaru
    You said you wanted to see ninjutsu.
[21:48] Gabimaru
    If this'll do, then watch this.
[21:51] Gabimaru
    Ninpo: Ascetic Blaze.
[22:08] Sagiri
    Impressive.
[22:14] Gabimaru
    I'll do it. I'll find this Elixir of Life.
[22:22] Gabimaru
    So, what should I do now?
[22:25] Sagiri
    Come with me. First, we'll go to Edo—
[22:28] Gabimaru
    What?
[22:29] Gabimaru
    Why don't we go directly to the island?
[22:32] Gabimaru
    Edo's a detour. What a pain.
[22:34] Sagiri
    He's complaining more now that
    he's out of his funk.
[22:37] Sagiri
    If you don't want to go,
    then we can call off the deal.
[22:39] Gabimaru
    I'll do it, I'll do it.
[22:41] Gabimaru
    I'll do anything now.
[22:44] Gabimaru
    It doesn't matter if I have to face
    condemned criminals or mysterious islands.
[22:48] Gabimaru
    I'll make it back alive.
[22:52] Gabimaru
    For you.