A horrifying martial art style has been passed down for 2,000 years.
The Divine Fist of the North Star, named after the sacred Big Dipper.
Tragedy has always followed those who inherit the style!
LEGEND OF THE SAVIOR OF THE CENTURY'S END
You're in shock!
Planning
Tadashi Oka
Yoshinobu Nakaya
(FujiTV)
The sky's falling down with love
Original Manga Buronson Tetsuo Hara
You're in shock!
It's falling down on my chest
Music Director Nozomi Aoki
Even if he binds my burning heart with chains,
Theme Song
"Ai wo Torimodose"
"Yuria... Eien ni"
By Crystal King
Lyrics Kimiharu Nakamura
Music Michio Yamashita
Lyrics Hidetoshi Nomoto
Masayuki Tanaka
Music Hiromi Imakiire
now it's useless...
I'll down the bastard who gets in my way with just one fingertip!
You're in shock!
Heartbeats rise with love
You're in shock!
Production Manager Yoshirou Sugawara
My heartbeat rises
My heart, wandering in search of you, now burns passionately...
Character Design
Masami Suda
It will melt everything and splash against the cruelty!
Art Design
Mitsuki Nakamura
Nobuto Sakamoto
To protect your love with me,
you set off on a journey
And lost sight of tomorrow
I never want to see that your face has forgotten how to smile
Series Director
Toyoo Ashida
Take back the love!
Producer
Yoshio Takami
CRIMSON ORCHID MOUNTAIN FIST!
A BIRTH OF A TRAGIC WOMAN!
Rei, this place called Cassandra where Toki's being held...
What kind of place is it?
I don't know much about it either,
but it's apparently a prison built by a man named Ken-Oh, who seeks
to take over this era by locking up martial artists.
Locking up martial artists?
That's right. Ken-Oh hunts down martial artists and warriors
to steal their secrets and enhance his own strength...
and then he imprisons them in Cassandra.
Once you pass through its gate,
they say that no one comes out alive.
It's a prison of death.
A prison of death?
They say the eerie voices and bloody screams
of those once feared as criminals and demons as well as martial
artists who sought to protect their art,
can be heard from deep within like a howling banshee.
That is Cassandra.
Toki...
Let's go to Cassandra.
Warden Uighur.
I've brought the successor to the Songshan Passing Elbow Fist.
Good work.
He says he will gladly share his art's secret scroll with you.
Oh?
It better be true! You'll really spare my family...
if I hand over the secret scroll?
I promise.
Dear...
Here it is.
Looks like it's real.
I shall pass this along to Ken-Oh-sama.
You promised. Now, let us go!
There's no room for two successors. From today...
Ken-Oh-sama will succeed the Songshan Passing Elbow Fist.
But I did promise to spare your lives.
You can spend the rest of your lives in Cassandra.
Targel, put the woman and child in a different cell from his own.
That way if he tries anything, we can easily kill them both.
Yes sir!
Wait! This is no place for a child to grow up!
And the mother can't breastfeed!
If they're locked up here, the child will...
Freeing the child now would later lead to a grudge towards the warden.
All grudges, no matter how small, must be put out now.
That's Cassandra's code.
Now, go.
Dear!
Dear! Dear!
Songshan Passing Elbow Fist!
Interesting.
You want a taste of this whip?
Warden Uighur! There's no need to dirty your whip over this.
Please, allow me.
Alright, he's all yours.
Black Palm Cross Fist!
Now it's my turn!
Black Palm Cross Fist!
It comes from a secret monastery on Mt. Lushan, in Shandong, China...
It's a deadly assassination art
which annihilates the enemy in an instant!
Well done, Targel.
You're too kind.
Lock up the wife and the kid!
No! Dear!
Dear!
How I love to listen to the sound of the devils crying...
They're here. It's definitely Kenshiro's group.
All right, don't let them pass through!
Huh? What's wrong?
Hey, come on out!
Not bad!
We are the Cassandra Assault Squad!
We will not allow you to pass this point.
This will be your grave! Here we come!
Die!
Ken! Rei!
What's wrong, Ken?
Nothing.
The closer we get to Cassandra, the worse the fighting will get.
Stay sharp.
Alright...
Warden Uighur, the assault squad has been wiped out.
Kenshiro's group is much stronger than we had imagined.
Ordinary forces won't...
- There's nothing to fear. - Huh?
I've learned all there is to know about Kenshiro.
Even his weakness.
Weakness?
Women.
Women?
Yes, his weak point is his foolish kindness... his softness.
He won't kill women.
I see...
Hey!
Bring me Bella, successor to the Orchid Crimson Mountain Fist.
Hey, Bella. Out!
The warden wants you.
What are you deaf?
Where's my mother?
Is she safe?
If you want to see your mother, come quietly.
Targel...
My mother is safe?
Warden Uighur, here is Bella.
Beautiful as always.
Don't give me that look, Bella.
I have a favor to ask.
The hell with you! Where's my mother? Is she safe?
Kill the successor to the Divine Fist of the North Star, Kenshiro.
Kenshiro?
I thought you knew him.
Of course, you inherited the Crimson Orchid Mountain Fist.
You will certainly win!
I refuse. The Crimson Orchid Mountain Fist is not for murder.
I see. You refuse?
The Crimson Orchid Mountain Fist's secret scroll?
How about now?
Mother!
Bella...
Your art's secret scroll, and your mother's life...
both depend on your answer.
Now, think again and reply!
You coward...
Bella! Don't do it! Forget about me...
Go back to being a woman!
A woman...
Bella!
Alright. I will defeat Kenshiro, without fail.
Bella!
That's it. The true successor to the Crimson Orchid Mountain Fist.
Now go!
Bella...
Bella, listen closely.
Today, you will inherit the Crimson Orchid Mountain Fist.
Dear!
Bella... She's just a girl!
Bella, you must forget your womanhood from today.
The art of Crimson Orchid Mountain Fist must not be lost.
How can she...
Bella...
Please.
Father!
If my fate was to throw away my womanhood that day
Kenshiro... defeating you must also be my fate.
Lin, what are you planting?
Potatoes? Tomatoes?
I'm making a flower bed.
A flower bed?
Isn't there a big one around here already?
I'll show Ken the flowers I grew!
Ken returning, or my flowers blooming...
Which do you think will come first?
Of course, it'll be...
What are you doing in a place like this?
Gramps is... Gramps is...
And we are so close to town...
Give me water...
Ah... you've had a rough time. But it's okay now. Ke...
Gramps! Water! It's water!
Thanks...
I feel like I'm reborn!
Thank you! Thank you so much!
Who's there?
Bella, of the Crimson Orchid Mountain Fist!
Kenshiro, I must defeat you.
Rei, Mamiya...
Take care of those two.
Crimson Orchid Mountain Fist!
Its movements are as elegant as petals scattered in the wind
but concealed within its beauty, lies immeasurable force!
What's the matter, Kenshiro?
Why don't you fight?
You have eyes filled with sorrow.
You can't kill people.
What's it to you? Fight. Fight me!
You refuse to fight me at all?
As expected, Kenshiro can't kill a woman.
Do it. Get him, Bella.
The water!
Damn you, Kenshiro!
At a time like this, he uses his body to defend the child?
What's wrong?
Done already?
I've lost.
So long, Bella.
- See you later. - Goodbye! Thank you!
Bella!
That's it! That's the way it should be...
Mother...
Mother!
I'm sorry, Bella.
Making you, a woman, inherit the style...
You should now abandon your martial arts.
Live as a woman.
Mother... Mother!
Mother!
You traitor.
Do you now realize the code of Cassandra?
Well, well... you're challenging me?
Interesting. I accept!
Gramps!
- Those people... Get them back! - Right!
Wait! Please, wait!
What's wrong?
Playtime is over.
All who defy Cassandra's code will all end up like this!
You will pay for that!
And I'll show you all the terror of the Black Palm Cross Fist!
Get them!
Ken, I'll handle the small fry.
You're all that's left.
And I'll be the last one standing. Here I go!
You dodged it pretty good.
But it won't work the second time!
North Star Takedown Finger!
What the... It doesn't hurt at all!
I've struck one of your secret pressure points, "Hyakkai."
Three seconds after I remove my fingers, you will explode.
That's ridiculous...
Bella...
You have also suffered the fate of a sole successorship.
All the more tragic for a woman...
- What? Even Targel was beaten? - Yes, sir.
Kenshiro.
Could you be so foolish...
as to challenge our unbroken legend?
Have a taste of the horror...
of the city where demons weep!
Warden! We've got trouble!
What happened?
Toki has...
Toki has what?
He has smiled.
- What? Toki smiled? - Yes, sir!
Toki, who's never shown any reaction to anything...
Did he have a vision of Kenshiro's coming?
Kenshiro's group finally reach Cassandra!
But two giants await at its legendary gates!
On the next episode of Fist of the North Star!
A HEINOUS LEGACY!
THE GATE TO CASSANDRA HAS OPENED!
A Heinous Legacy! The Gate to Cassandra Has opened!
Toki, we must meet.
Script
Shozo Uehara Toshiki Inoue
Hiroshi Toda Yuuho Hanazono
Tokio Tsuchiya Yukiyoshi Ohashi, etc.
Cast
Akira Kamiya as Kenshiro Toshiko Fujita as Mamiya
Mie Suzuki as Bat Tomiko Suzuki as Lin
Swaying within the light is your smile
Kaneto Shiozawa as Rei Shigeru Chiba as Narrator
Daisuke Gorii as Uighur
Yuji Mikimoto as Raiga lkuya Sawaki as Fuga
Leaving only the sound of footsteps behind,
The silhouette vanishes into the darkness
Directors
Toyoo Ashida Iku Ishiguro
Her satisfied wings flapping, the goddess now turns her back...
Masamitsu Sasaki Atsutoshi Umezawa
Masahisa Ishida Osamu Uemura
Kiyotaka Kantake Akio Mitsuya
Hiromichi Matano Umetarou Saitani
Shigenori Kageyama Shinichi Masaki
Because more than today, more than tomorrow, I want love...
Ichiro Itano Tomoharu Katsumata, etc.
More than dreams, I want you! The one I love, my everything...
Copyrights
Film 漏 1984 TOEI ANIMATION 漏 BURONSON & TETSUO HARA/NSP
1983 漏 NSP, TOEI ANIMATION 1984