Minoru Chiaki credited as playing...
Priest
- Priest: It's horrifying. If men don't trust each other, this earth might as well be hell.
- Commoner: That's right. The world's a kind of hell.
- Priest: No! I believe in men. I don't want this place to be hell.
- Commoner: Shouting doesn't help. Think about it. Out of these three, whose story is believable?
- Woodcutter: No idea.
- Commoner: In the end, you cannot understand the things men do.
- Priest: War, earthquake, winds, fire, famine, the plague. Year after year, it's been nothing but disasters. And bandits descend upon us every night. I've seen so many men getting killed like insects, but even I have never heard a story as horrible as this. Yes. So horrible. This time, I may finally lose my faith in the human soul. It's worse than worse than bandits, the plague, famine, fire or wars.
- Woodcutter: It's a lie. It's all a lie. Tajômaru's story and the woman's.
- Commoner: It's human nature to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.
- Priest: That may be. But it's because men are weak that they lie, even to themselves.
- Commoner: Not another sermon. I don't care if it's a lie, as long as it's entertaining. What story did the woman come up with?
- Priest: Well, it's completely different from Tajômaru's story. So different that her face didn't even show the fierceness he spoke of. She was so docile, she was almost pitiful.