Japan quotes

“I never knew Japan when it was a country of light, but I have never known it to be as dark as it is now. All our progress has ended in new persecution, new repression, new suffering. They use ladles filled with holes so the drops would come out slowly, and the pain would be prolonged. Each small splash of the water was like a burning coal. The...” (continue)(continue reading)
Liam Neeson - Ferreira

“Look, I've been living in this country for seven years, and I still can't read the headlines. Yes means no. Maybe means never.”

Kate Capshaw - Joyce

“I'm not always great in pictures, but I'm always true to the Japanese spirit.”
Toshirō Mifune

“The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.”
Pat Morita

“- Tum Tum: I wanted to come to Japan, Grandpa.
- Grandpa: Thank you for wanting to continue your Ninja training.
- Tum Tum: Ninja? I really wanted to go there to learn how to be a Sumo Wrestler. You know how much those guys get to eat everyday?”
J. Evan Bonifant - Michael 'Tum Tum' Douglas
Victor Wong - Grandpa Mori Shintaro

“- Col. 'Madman' Maddox: Winowski, a little tall for a Jap, wouldn't you say?
- Winowski: Yeah, but those Japs are sneaky bastards, sir. You never know.
- Col. 'Madman' Maddox: You're right. Check him for stilts.”
Warren Oates - Col. 'Madman' Maddox
Ronnie McMillan - Winowski

“What does it mean to be Samurai? To devote yourself utterly to a set of moral principles. To seek a stillness of your mind. And to master the way of the sword.”
Tom Cruise - Nathan Algren

“Hello. Your tits are as beautiful as Mt. Fuji. Would you mind if I rubbed my face in them?”

James Saito - Kendo

“Walden Schmidt-Can we get one of those fancy Japanese toilets that sprays water and sprays your tooshie.
Evelyn Harper-With your money you can find an actual Japanese person to do it
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Ashton Kutcher - Walden Schmidt
Holland Taylor - Evelyn Harper

“Walden Schmidt-So, Japan, huh? I am excited for you.
Jake harper-Yeah, my only worry is that they have not found Godzilla.
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Ashton Kutcher - Walden Schmidt
Angus T. Jones - Jake Harper

“For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.”
Bill Murray - Bob Harris

“To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall.”
Shizuko Hoshi - Sayuri Narration

“If you understand devotion, you will understand Japan.”
Eriko Hatsune - Aya Shimada

“I too once had a family, Danny. Many years ago I lived in Japan: a pet of my master Yoshi, mimicking his movements from my cage and learning the mysterious art of Ninjitsu, for Yoshi was one of Japan's finest shadow warriors.”
Kevin Clash - Splinter

“Japan has surrendered, brought to its knees by the most terrible weapon ever devised: the atomic bomb. The country is a smoking ruin.”

Matthew Fox - General Bonner Fellers

- General Kajima: There are two Japanese words you should know. "Tatemae", the way things appear. "Honne", the way things really are. When you look at Japan, you see the most modern and westernised of Asian countries, but that is "tatemae", the surface.
- General Bonner Fellers: And "honne"?
- General Kajima: It is the true heartbeat of my... (continue)(continue reading)
Toshiyuki Nishida - General Kajima
Matthew Fox - General Bonner Fellers

“- Sgt. FrankTree: You think the Japanese believe in Santy Claus?
- Crowd: No!
- Sgt. FrankTree: Well, instead of turkey for your Christmas dinner, how would you like to have raw fish heads and rice?
- Crowd: No!”

Dan Aykroyd - Sgt. Frank Tree

“- Jean-Pierre: Forty-seven samurai, whose master was betrayed and killed by another lord. They became ronin - masterless samurai - disgraced by another man's treachery. For three years they plotted, pretending to be thieves, mercenaries, even madmen and then one night they struck, slipping into the castle of their lord's betrayer and killing...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Lonsdale - Jean-Pierre
Robert De Niro - Sam

“We did our duty, but we lost our humanity. You must understand, we Japanese are a selfless people capable of immense sacrifice because of our complete devotion to a set of ideas. We are also ruthless warriors capable of unspeakable crimes because of that same complete devotion. I cannot tell you if the Emperor is guilty or innocent. I don't know...” (continue)(continue reading)
Toshiyuki Nishida - General Kajima

“- Eddie: You people caused quite a stir.
- Jack McGurn: It was a legal demonstration, sir. Perfectly within the Constitution.
- Eddie: Well, all that striking stuff is over now, mister. When Japs step on the beach, you think they'll take any notice of your banners? They'll stick a bayonet in your belly, grievance or no grievance. This is America...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul A. DiCocco Jr. - Eddie
Dennis Quaid - Jack McGurn

“Your performances were, on the whole, promising, which is more than can be said, alas, for that of the sliding doors. One of which might have thought it was in Japan, but the other was apparently stubbornly laboring under the misapprehension that it was on holiday in Yorkshire.”

Jim Broadbent - William Schwenck Gilbert

“- Nick Conklin: Just hope they got a Nip in this building who speaks fucking English.
- Matsumoto Masahiro: Assistant inspector Matsumoto Masahiro, criminal investigation section, Osaka prefecture police. And I do speak fucking English.”
Michael Douglas - Nick Conklin
Ken Takakura - Matsumoto Masahiro

“My Japanese is getting better. We started speaking English.”
Bill Murray - Bob Harris

“Let me state clearly what principles are involved for Japan. We neither, possess, nor use, nuclear weapons. That being the case we cannot permit their use now. That's final.”
Keiju Kobayashi - Prime Minister Mitamura

“- President Barbara Adams: Where is the sanity in bombing millions of innocent people?
- Sir Mortimer Chris: It shut Japan up, didn't it?”
Loretta Swit - President Barbara Adams
Peter Cook - Sir Mortimer Chris