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Episode Title:
Dancing Head.Episode Description:
The episode opens with a young girl, Otama, finding her sister (Oyoshi) in the next room, her head "dancing" as she moans. Momosuke arrives at a town where a woman named Oyoshi is being chased by a rōnin named Matajuro Ishikawa. Momosuke intervenes and authorities chase Matajuro away. Momosuke then ends up developing a crush on her. She admits that she is the concubine of Yahei Anzai, the head in the local fisherman's union against her will. Later, Anzai comes to visit, and it is clear that Oyoshi does not want to have sex with him with Otama in the other room. Matajuro comes to take Oyoshi away and Oyoshi has a flashback of Matajuro performing cunnilingus while Otama witnessed. During this scene, his identity as her father is revealed. He attempts to rape her, but he gets distracted by Mataichi. She convinces Matajuro that she will meet him somewhere else. The next scene is of Matajuro raping Oyoshi while Oyoshi tries to distract him into eating poisoned food. Matajuro discovers the ruse when a dog eats the food. Oyoshi claims that Anzai forced her to poison him, so an enraged Matajuro runs off to murder Anzai. Matajuro goes back to tell Oyoshi, but ends up capturing "Otama". When confronted by Momosuke and Oyoshi at Tomoei Point, Matajuro states that he killed Oyoshi's mother upon her request. He forces Oyoshi to admit that she has been caring for and speaking with Otama's corpse. Oyoshi has a flashback revealing that Oyoshi killed Otama for witnessing their incestuous acts. Just then, the authorities arrive and Matajuro dies by dismemberment. Oyoshi has hallucinations of the heads of her father, sister, and Anzai floating around in the air. At Momosuke's request, Mataichi commits Oyoshi to the next world offscreen.
