- Shogun Tsunayoshi: For the crime of disobedience, you should all be executed as common criminals, but you and your men follow the old ways of Bushido, to honor your lord and to avenge treachery. I see only samurai before me. I grant you the samurai's death, to be buried alongside your lord, with honor.
- Ôishi: Thank you, your Highness.
- Ôishi: When a crime goes unpunished the world is unbalanced. When the wrong is unavenged the heavens look down on us in shame. We too must die for this circle of vengeace to be closed. We will leave this record of our courage so the world will know who we were and what we did. Tonight, we will regain our honor and avenge our lord. None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come, but soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.
- [Summons Kai to sign the document]
- Ôishi: Kai.
- Kai: [Kai signs his name and stamps his blood] We end this now.
- Ôishi: Now, we are 47!
- Tengu Lord: Was it worth it what you found in the outside world? The love of a woman you can never have?
- Kai: Yes.
- Tengu Lord: No matter what you do, Mika will never be yours in this life.
- Kai: Then I will go to my death and pray I find her in the next!
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Ancient feudal Japan, a land shrouded in mystery, forbidden to foreigners. A group of magical islands home to witches and demons. A nation of rival provinces whose lords were ruled by a shogun whose will is absolute. Peace in the realm is kept by the samurai, master swordsmen tasked with protecting their lord and their province at all costs. Should a samurai ever lose of fail his master, he suffers the greatest shame in all Japanese society. He becomes a ronin. And yet, to know they story of the 47 Ronin, is to know the story of all Japan.
- Ôishi: We will leave this record of our courage so the world will know who we were and what we did. Tonight, we will regain our honor and avenge our lord. None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come, but soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.
- [Summons Kai to sign the document]
- Ôishi: Kai.
- Kai: [Kai signs his name and stamps his blood] We end this now.
- Ôishi: Now, we are 47!
- Yasuno: [to a bowing Kai] I would rather have been killed by that beast than be saved by a half-breed.