What does the warrior in the red armor, Hirotaro, say in the Last Samurai movie? In the movie Last Samurai, Hirotaro has only one line in the whole movie. I tried some years ago to understand and "decipher" his words, but I couldn't and I blamed it on my lack of knowledge. Now that my is much better, I still fail to grasp what he says. Maybe it is in _old_ language, Samurai dialect of some sort. Here's the link to it, time marker included: < The subtitle says "He's mine". My only guess is that he might have said "" in a bit twisted manner. No marker is not impossible in 'hard' language, and () makes sense to be used instead of or , since is an older form and male term, and the story takes place during 1870-1877. However, what I hear is at best "washi yeru", which is not very encouraging. Any ideas are welcome.

He says **** ("I'll do it. = I'll behead him.")

The reason that you are not hearing the would probably be this:

The nasal allophones of /g/

Note that I specifically mentioned the particle in my answer in the thread above.

It seems {} is not too widely taught in Japanese-as-a-foreign-language, I am afraid.