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"I'm someone... who wasn't supposed to live."
"[after Noriko's funeral, to the pictures] You can't forgive me. Is that it? It's my fault... for thinking I could dream again."
"My war isn't over yet."
"[referring to Akiko] I want to protect her future. I will stop Godzilla no matter what."
"I forbid you to die!"
"Is that... Godzilla?"
"Is your war finally over?"
"[to Shikishima] Live."
"Come to think of it this country has treated life far too cheaply. Poorly armored tanks. Poor supply chains resulting in half of all deaths from starvation and disease. Fighter planes built without ejection seats and finally, kamikaze and suicide attacks. That's why this time I'd take pride in a citizen led effort that sacrifices no lives at all! This next battle is not one waged to the death, but a battle to live for the future."
"This country never changes. Perhaps it can't."
"To have never gone to war is something to be proud of."
"Godzilla looks really ticked off."
"[after seeing the size and strength of Godzilla] Okay, never mind."
"[leading the tugboat armada] The useless to the rescue!"
"How is this possible? Weren't you a kamikaze pilot? You have the nerve to show your face? You're a disgrace! Look at what happened because of cowards like you! If you'd only done your job, my children wouldn't have died."
"Unnamed mechanic: [to Shikishima, privately] I'm on your side. We need more people like you. Why obey an order to 'die honorably' when the outcome is already clear?"
"Moustached man: Why are we always the ones drawing the short straw? We got enough of that in the war."
"Ryunosuke Kamiki - Kōichi Shikishima"
"Minami Hamabe - Noriko Ōishi"
"Yuki Yamada - Shirō Mizushima"
"Munetaka Aoki - Sōsaku Tachibana"
"Hidetaka Yoshioka - Kenji Noda"
"Sakura Ando - Sumiko Ōta, Shikishima's neighbor"
"Kuranosuke Sasaki - Yōji Akitsu, captain of the Shinsei Maru"
"Sae Nagatani - Akiko, Ōishi and Shikishima's adopted daughter"
"Mio Tanaka - Tatsuo Hotta, captain of the destroyer Yukikaze"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.