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"The time is 1860... the emergence of a middle class has brought an end to power of the Tokugawa Dynasty... A samurai, once a dedicated warrior in the employ of Royalty, now finds himself with no master to serve other than his own will to survive... and no devices other than his wit and sword."
"[family he has just saved is crying with gratitude] Stop it. Stop it! I hate weaklings! [they keep crying] Stop crying, or I'll kill you!"
"[Sanjuro has just killed two men and cut the arm off a third] Coffin maker. Two coffins... No, better make it three."
"[after the gamblers have challenged him] Well, they say medicine can't cure an idiot. [draws sword and kills two of them]"
"You haven't seen the last of me yet. There's a few dozen people I want to kill before I die."
"If I don't have my pistol, I feel almost naked."
"Whether you kill one man or a hundred, you're just a man who can only be hanged once."
"Toshirô Mifune - Sanjuro Kuwabatake / The Samurai"
"Tatsuya Nakadai - Unosuke"
"Yôko Tsukasa - Nui"
"Isuzu Yamada - Orin"
"Daisuke Katô - Inokichi"
"Seizaburô Kawazu - Seibei"
"Takashi Shimura - Tokuemon"
"Eijirô Tôno - Gonji"
"Kamatari Fujiwara - Tazaemon"
"Susumu Fujita - Homma"
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.