103 quotes found
"I have less than a year to live. When I found that out... somehow I was drawn to you. Once when I was a child, I almost drowned. It's just like that feeling. Darkness everywhere, and nothing for me to hold onto, no matter how hard I try. There's just you."
"Life is brief, fall in love, maidens... Before the crimson bloom fades from your lips... Before the tides of passion cools within you... For those of you who know no tomorrow... Life is brief, fall in love, maidens... Before our raven tresses begin to fade... Before the flames in your hearts flicker and die... For those to whom today will never return..."
"I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time."
"Dying is very difficult."
"I just can't die — I don't know what I've been living for all these years. This expensive saki is a protest against my life up to now."
"[telling a joke] :"You've never had a day off, have you?" "No." "Why? Are you indispensable?" "No. I don't want them to find out they can do without me.""
"That's not art. A striptease isn't art. It's too direct. It's more direct than art. That woman's body up there? It's a big juicy steak. It's a glass of gin. It's a hormone extract. Streptomycin. Uranium!"
"How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death."
"Takashi Shimura - Kanji Watanabe"
"Shinichi Himori - Kimura"
"Haruo Tanaka - Sakai"
"Minoru Chiaki - Noguchi"
"Bokuzen Hidari - Ohara"
"Miki Odagiri - Toyo Odagiri, employee"
"Kamatari Fujiwara - Sub-Section Chief Ono"
"Shitworms can't smell shit."
"Hey! [Rokurota looks curiously towards the peasants. Tahei and Matashichi shrink back in fear]... Evening."
"Matashichi? Let's stay friends in Heaven, too."
"Hide a stone among stones and a man among men."
"What you make of another's kindness is up to you."
"You cannot make my heart mute too!"
"I have enjoyed the journey. The happiness of these days, I would have never known living in the castle. I've seen people as they are, without pretense. I've seen their beauty and their ugliness with my own eyes."
"General Hyoe Tadokoro: Why did you let me survive the shame of my defeat? To defeat an enemy yet let him live may seem kind, but it's cruel!"
"Toshiro Mifune – General Rokurota Makabe"
"Minoru Chiaki – Tahei"
"Kamatari Fujiwara – Matashichi"
"Susumu Fujita – General Hyoe Tadokoro"
"Takashi Shimura – The Old General, Izumi Nagakura"
"Misa Uehara – Princess Yuki"
"Eiko Miyoshi – Old Lady-in-Waiting"
"Toshiko Higuchi – Farmer's Daughter bought from slave trader"
"Yū Fujiki – Barrier guard"
"Yoshio Tsuchiya – Samurai on horse"
"Kokuten Kōdō – Old man in front of sign"
"He was exactly like me. A naked sword. He didn't stay in his sheath."
"Stupid friends are dangerous."
"If it sounds too good to be true it usually is."
"We can't move like this! We look like a centipede!"
"You tired of being stupid yet?"
"Mutsuta's wife: You're too sharp. That's your trouble. You're like a drawn sword. Sharp, naked without a sheath. You cut well. But good swords are kept in their sheaths."
"Mutsuta's wife: Killing people is a bad habit."
"Mutsuta, the Chamberlain: Once as I rode by, someone said "the rider has a longer face than the horse.""
"A fast sword, keen perception used well to SLAUGHTER HIS ENEMIES."
"Akira Kurosawa's Powerful and Newest Japanese Masterpiece"
"Toshiro Mifune - Sanjûrô Tsubaki"
"Tatsuya Nakadai - Hanbei Muroto"
"Yūzō Kayama - Iori Izaka"
"Reiko Dan - Chidori"
"Takashi Shimura - Kurofuji"
"Kamatari Fujiwara - Takebayashi"
"Takako Irie - Mutsuta's wife"
"Masao Shimizu - Kikui"
"Yūnosuke Itō - Mutsuta, the Chamberlain"
"Cowards! I see it now! You'll slay me and offer my head when you surrender!"
"[glances up from his drink and suddenly pales as he sees the ghost of Miki] There he is again! If you hate me, why not draw your sword? [He charges, swiping again and again with his sword]"
"Admirable, my Lord. You, who would soon rule the world, allow a ghost to frighten you."
"Without ambition, man is not man."
"I did not stain my hands with blood to forward Yoshiteru, Miki's son."
"Listen, even the crow is saying: The throne is yours."
"What warrior would not want to be lord of a mighty castle?"
"[singing] Men are vain and death is long, And pride dies first within the grave, For hair and nails are growing still, When face and fame are gone, Nothing in this world will save, Or measure up man's actions here, Nor in the next - for there is none, This life must end in fear, Only evil may maintain, An afterlife for those who will, Who love this world - who have no son, To whom ambition calls, Even so - this false fame falls, Death will reign - man dies in vain."
"You humans! Never will I comprehend you. You are afraid of your desires - you try to hide them."
"If you choose ambition, lord, then choose it honestly, with cruelty."
"If you would make a mountain of the dead, pile it so it reaches the sky."
"If you would shed blood, then let it run as a river."
"Washizu soldier: A message from Lady Asaji! "If arrows cannot open the gates, then a corpse will.""
"Washizu samurai: I have fought in many battles and have seen blood, yet this stain horrifies me. Because this is the blood of a dog, the blood of a despised traitor. He was a coward too. Cried for mercy after his revolt was over."
"Toshiro Mifune - Taketoki Washizu"
"Isuzu Yamada - Lady Asaji Washizu"
"Takashi Shimura - Noriyasu Odagura"
"Akira Kubo - Yoshiteru Miki"
"Yōichi Tachikawa - Kunimaru Tsuzuki"
"Minoru Chiaki - Yoshiaki Miki"
"Takamaru Sasaki - Lord Kuniharu Tsuzuki"
"Chieko Naniwa - Witch"
"Kokuten Kōdō - First General"
"A woman wears a hat on her head, but shoes carry all her weight."
"A man must kill or be killed."
"I'd rather be told the cruel truth than be fed gentle lies."
"Taking the wrong boy was a lucky break. Did you know Mr. Gondo that it's only extortion when you threaten a person or his kin? In other words, this doesn't count. But you have to pay anyway. You're a fool to pay, but pay you must."
"...Besides, it's amusing to make fortunate men taste the same misery as the unfortunate."
"You think I'm shaking out of fear, but I'm not! It's just the physiological reaction from being in solitary too long. Just leaving the cell makes me shake. I'm not afraid of death. I don't care if I go to hell. My life has been hell since the day I was born. [laughs] But if I had to go to heaven, then I'd really start to tremble. [laughs]"
"[to her husband, about their son Jun] He takes after you. He likes violent games."
"Mr. Gondo, I know it's late to be saying this... but you have the right to protect your own livelihood. It's our duty to help you. We want to save the child, but not by sacrificing you."
"For Mr. Gondo's sake, be bloodhounds!"
"Aoki: No human being can kill an innocent child."
"Kawanishi: I know how much this money means to you, but a human life means more."
"Toshiro Mifune - Kingo Gondo"
"Tatsuya Nakadai - Inspector Tokura"
"Kyōko Kagawa - Reiko Gondo"
"Tatsuya Mihashi - Kawanishi"
"Kenjiro Ishiyama - Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi|"
"Isao Kimura - Detective Arai"
"Takeshi Katō - Detective Nakao"
"Yutaka Sada - Aoki"
"Tsutomu Yamazaki - Ginjirô Takeuchi"
"Takashi Shimura - Chief of the Investigation Section"
"Susumu Fujita - Manager of Investigations"
"Yoshio Tsuchiya - Detective Murata"
"Jun Tazaki - Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director"
"Nobuo Nakamura - Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director"
"Yunosuke Ito - Baba, National Shoes Executive"
"Masahiko Shimizu - Shinichi Aoki"