- Umeno: I'm one of the crooks.
- Sassa the yojimbo: That's right. This woman can be quite vicious. She uses yakuza, officials, and townsmen. She doesn't care who it is as long as she gets the money. Yours truly here is quite a crook, too. I can outdo the best of them. I'm at the top when it comes to being bad. A villain. How do you like that?
- Zatoichi: Actually, I'm quite a crook as well.
- Sassa the yojimbo: If you are, then behave like one.
- [Masagoro and his gang strut into Umeno's place and examine Sassa, who is passed out on the floor, with disdain]
- Boss Masagoro: He's either drunk or snoring away. No good for anything.
- [Sassa cries out in his sleep, startling everyone]
- [Yogo sees a rat crawling along the back of the cell, clawing at its own throat, and reacts in abject terror, wetting himself]
- Zatoichi: Young man, did you spill something?
- Yogo Kobotoke: H-help me...
- Zatoichi: Why did you commit murder anyway? Who did you kill?
- Yogo Kobotoke: A- A sales clerk of Eboshiya. Bu-but I didn't do it. I'm only an underling. Three brothers did the killing. All I did was dump the body in the river. Please save me, masseur!
- [Sassa is lazing on his back again]
- Sassa the yojimbo: Zatoichi has become Eboshiya's bodyguard, you say?
- Boss Masagoro: Yes.
- [Sassa heaves himself up]
- Sassa the yojimbo: You know how expensive he is? He'll cost you 200 ryo.
- Boss Masagoro: What? 200 ryo? Don't be so greedy.
- Sassa the yojimbo: Well, you're dealing with a greedy man.
- [He gets to his feet]
- Boss Masagoro: W-wh-where are you going?
- Sassa the yojimbo: I'll get money somewhere else.
- Boss Masagoro: Sensei!
- Sassa the yojimbo: [mimicking Masagoro] "Sensei!" Don't worry. I'll be back soon.
- Zatoichi: I never took you for a crying drunk.
- Sassa the yojimbo: Shut your mouth! Just shut it!
- [In a fury, Sassa brushes everything off of the table he's sitting at]
- Kuzuryu: You just lie around and drink. Don't you ever take your job seriously?
- Sassa the yojimbo: I get by.
- [Zatoichi has broken the shoulders of three thugs]
- Thug: Who the hell are you?
- Zatoichi: I'm just an amateur masseur. They call me Zatoichi.
- Sassa the yojimbo: [to a blind man who died with his eyes open] Don't look at me like that. Look the other way.
- Sassa the yojimbo: [to Ichi at the conclusion of their final battle] Monster.
- Zatoichi: [to Sassa] Beast.
- Zatoichi: Why don't you make one for me?
- Blacksmith Tomeyoshi: It's not sharp. Not made for killing.
- Zatoichi: As long as it can slice a radish.
- Umeno: I don't like men who yell. I also don't like men who only visit when they're drunk. And I despise men who don't pay what they owe.
- Blacksmith Tomeyoshi: Why did you come back here?
- Zatoichi: Why? Just to take a break. Relaxation.
- Blacksmith Tomeyoshi: You won't get that here.
- Zatoichi: I want to enjoy the open-air hot spring.
- Blacksmith Tomeyoshi: The open-air hot spring you say?
- Zatoichi: To feel the spring breeze. To hear the stream. To savor the sweet scent of the plum blossoms. To listen to the nightingale's song. And just to sink down into the tub.
- Zatoichi: I'm done with hell. I can feel the gusts blowing right through my body. Enough with the rain. And the wind. I remember the spring breeze, the sound of the stream, and the sweet scent of plum blossoms. My home was a divine place.
- Zatoichi: We could put an end to it now.
- Yogo Kobotoke: What? With you? No, I don't like that. If I could die together with Umeno, I'd do it. But I don't want to die with you.
- Sassa the yojimbo: Can I stay here tonight?
- Umeno: You're already staying here. It's almost dawn.
- Sassa the yojimbo: Tell me if you want to sleep with me. I want you badly.
- Umeno: You must have killed someone in your dream. And now you're scared so you want me. Are you going to pay me?
- Zatoichi: You're one cruel man. You're a cat in tiger's skin. You must have enjoyed playing a joke on a cripple.
- Zatoichi: Is Umeno here?
- Sassa the yojimbo: You're not worthy of saying her name. Did you sleep with her?
- Zatoichi: No, she kindly held my hand and guided me. That's all.
- Sassa the yojimbo: I figured. She wouldn't sleep with a monster. But she has changed.
- Zatoichi: Are you saying she would sleep with a monster now?
- Sassa the yojimbo: She doesn't care who she sleeps with.
- Yasuke Eboshiya: I'd think that would be a difficult task for a woman.
- Umeno: But it can be done precisely because I'm a woman.
- Sassa the yojimbo: I couldn't even afford tea in Edo. I could barely feed myself on what I made. While some enjoyed broiled eels, I would get the scrapings off the sticks.
- Zatoichi: Dried mackerel and miso soup with ginger. Warm rice with pickled wasabi on top. What a nice breakfast. Chopsticks? Where are my chopsticks?
- Zatoichi: You're behaving like a two-bit samurai today.
- Sassa the yojimbo: That's right. The kind you despise the most.
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By what name was Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970) officially released in India in English?
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