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"Masahiko Shimizu - Shinichi Aoki"
"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"
"A woman wears a hat on her head, but shoes carry all her weight."
"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"
"Kyōko Kagawa - Reiko Gondo"
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.