"Wait! Stop! Either you die or my husband dies. One of you must die. To have my shame known to two men is worse than dying. I will go with the survivor."

"It's you two who are weak! [to Takehiro] If you are my husband, kill this man, then you can tell me to kill myself! But you're not a real man. That is why I was crying. I'm tired of this farce. [She continues laughing, and turns to Tajomaru] I thought Tajomaru might find some way out. [She clutches the bandit by his rags] I thought that if he would save me I would do anything for him! I wanted you to take me away. I would have been yours! [She spits in his face and laughs again] But he's not a man, either. He's just like my husband. [Tajomaru cringes] Remember, a woman loves a real man only. A man has to make a woman his by his sword."

"She became very pale and stared at me as though her eyes were frozen. She looked like a child when it turns suddenly serious. The sight of her made me jealous of that man. I started to hate him. I wanted to show her what he looked like, all tied up like that. I hadn't even thought of a thing like that before, but now I did."

"I thought I saw a goddess. At that moment I decided to have her, even if I had to kill her man. But if I could have her without killing, all the better."

"I saw the couple three days ago. It was a hot afternoon. Suddenly a cool breeze rustle the leaves. If it hadn't been for that wind, I wouldn't have killed him."

"Dead men tell no lies."

"A human life is truly as frail and fleeting as the morning dew."

"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 bandits, the plague, famine, fire or wars."

"I wanted to hear a story, not one of your sermons."

"Women use their tears to fool everyone. They even fool themselves."

"Kichijirô Ueda - Commoner"

"We all want to forget something, so we tell stories. It's easier that way."

"No one tells a lie after he's said he's going to tell one."

"If men lie in this world, what makes you so sure they'll be honest in the next?"

"It sounded interesting, at least while I kept out of the rain. But if it's a sermon, I'd sooner listen to the rain."

"Minoru Chiaki - Priest"

"Takashi Shimura - Woodcutter"

"Masayuki Mori - Takehiro Kanazawa"

"Machiko Kyô - Masako Kanazawa"

"Toshirô Mifune - Tajômaru"

"Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing. This script portrays such human beings — the kind who cannot survive without lies to make them feel they are better people than they really are. It even shows this sinful need for flattering falsehood going beyond the grave — even the character who dies cannot give up his lies when he speaks to the living through a medium. Egoism is a sin the human being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem. This film is like a strange picture scroll that is unrolled and displayed by the ego. You say that you can’t understand this script at all, but that is because the human heart itself is impossible to understand. If you focus on the impossibility of truly understanding human psychology and read the script one more time, I think you will grasp the point of it."

"I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film."

"Rashomon is the closest to "perfect" a film can get."

"my favorite movie has always been Rashomon (1950) by Akira Kurosawa because it is just that: a story told from multiple perspectives."

"Woodcutter: I'm the one who should be ashamed. I don't understand my own soul."

"[voice in video game] Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-dan Armada."

"[to Grig] Maybe there is a Starfighter left."

"Terrific. I'm about to get killed a million miles from nowhere with a gung-ho iguana who tells me to relax."

"[to an alien] I'm sorry, it was an accident. I didn't mean to step on your, uh, whatever that is."

"There's gotta be a perfectly logical explanation for all this."

"Paw Hee-ching - Huo Yuanjia's mother"

"Nathan Jones - Hercules O'Brien"

"Betty Sun - Yueci"

"Nakamura Shidō II - Anno Tanaka"

"Collin Chou - Huo Endi"

"Dong Yong - Nong Jinsun"

"HUO YUANJIA!"

"Jet Li - Huo Yuanjia"

"It's an honor."

"Chris Hebert - Lewis Rogan"

"Peter Nelson - Jack Blake"

"Norman Snow - Xur"

"Kay E. Kuter - Enduran"

"Barbara Bosson - Jane Rogan"

"Dan O'Herlihy - Grig"

"Catherine Mary Stewart - Maggie Gordon"

"Robert Preston - Centauri"