Japan quotes

“They were a nation of anxious people and they could do nothing individually. So they went mad... en masse.”

Tom Conti - Col. John Lawrence

“The death agony of the Japanese army in Borneo was as sad as the sinking of a great ship. Bullets, explosives, poisoned arrows. Men stumbling through the night, mumbling incoherently. Hunger. Men eating weeds, leeches, insects - and each other. Despair, madness. For me, for us, the same period was as thrilling as a cavalry charge. May god...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nigel Havers - Botanist

“Bombs! I don't hear any bombs! Now they're up there. They came all the way from Asia. Don't you think they'd bring a few bombs along?”
Robert Stack - Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell

“- Wild Bill Woodward: Ninja? What the hell are ninja?
- Curtis Jackson: They're a secret Japanese society expert in the art of assassination.
- Wild Bill Woodward: Tell me, what would Japanese assassins be doing in this part of the world, taking a vacation?”
Jeff Celentano - Capt. 'Wild Bill' Woodward
Steve James - Sgt. Curtis Jackson

“Many of our customs seem strange to you. And the same is true of yours. For example, not to introduce yourself is considered extremely rude, even among enemies.”

Ken Watanabe - Katsumoto

“- Dr. Rawlins: You admire the Japanese?
- Jim: Well, they're brave, aren't they?
- Dr. Rawlins: That's important, is it, Jim?
- Jim: It's a good thing if you want to win a war.
- Dr. Rawlins: But we don't want them to win, do we. Remember, we're British.”
Nigel Havers - Dr. Rawlins
Christian Bale - Jim

“They say Japan was made by a sword. They say the old gods dipped a coral blade into the ocean, and when they pulled it out four perfect drops fell back into the sea, and those drops became the islands of Japan.”
Timothy Spall - Simon Graham

“I hear Japs are happy to die for their emperor. A lot of them are going to be made very happy.”
Cary Grant - Capt. Cassidy

“Here in Tokyo, time has been turned back two million years. This is my report as it happens. The prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla' has just walked out of Tokyo Bay. He's as tall as a 30-story building.”
Raymond Burr - Steve Martin

- Jack Elliot: Japanese way, "shut up and take it"!
- Uchiyama: Jack's way, "me, me, me"! Sometimes acceptance and cooperation are strengths also.
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot
Ken Takakura - Uchiyama

- Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt: The Führer was right! There is no place in the Third Reich for you yellow swine!
- Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura: You can take your "Third Reich" and shove it up your ass!
Sir Christopher Lee - Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
Toshirō Mifune - Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura

“- Yoji Nishimura: She wants to know why you have chosen to play in Japan.
- Jack Elliot: Let's just say I had a yen to play here.
- Yoji Nishimura: Mr. Elliot would gladly pay for honor of playing in Japan.”

Toshi Shioya - Yoji Nishimura
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot

“- Jim: It almost looks as if they're waiting for something to happen...
- John Graham, Jim's father: Yes.
- Jim: They didn't look angry or anything...
- Maxton: It's not their anger; it's their patience.”

Christian Bale - Jim
Rupert Frazer - John Graham, Jim's father
Leslie Phillips - Maxton

“Females are useful there only to work or to have children. The Japs don't understand the love we have for our women. They don't even have a word for it in their language.”
Cary Grant - Capt. Cassidy

“- Cpl. Curtis Jackson: Have you ever heard of Ninjutsu, sir?
- Col. William T. Hickock: What's that?
- Cpl. Curtis Jackson: The secret art of assassination.
- Col. William T. Hickock: Yeah of course I have!
- Cpl. Curtis Jackson: Well according to witnesses testimony and evidence, this massacre was the work of ninjas.”
Steve James - Cpl. Curtis Jackson
Guich Koock - Col. William T. Hickock

“I was 10 when the B-29 came. My family lived underground for three days. We when came up the city was gone. Then the heat brought rain. Black rain. You made the rain black, and shoved your values down our throats. We forgot who we were.”
Tomisaburô Wakayama - Sugai

“- April O'Neill: I'm going to find an apartment. I have an idea we're going to be here for a long time.
- Leonardo: An apartment?
- Michaelangelo: Do they have apartments in Japan?
- Raphael: Do I look like a real estate agent?
- Leonardo: What about condos?”
Paige Turco - April O'Neil
Brian Tochi - Leonardo
Robbie Rist - Michaelangelo
Tim Kelleher - Raphael

“- Chief Sterns: You expect me to waste precious manpower because some immigrants are reminded of something that supposedly happened, years ago in Japan!
- April O'Neil: Have you got anything else?”
Raymond Serra - Chief Sterns
Judith Hoag - April O'Neil

“Perhaps you should think less of yourself and more of your group, try to work like in Japanese. I grew up with your soldiers; you were wise then. Now - music and movies are all America is good for. We make the machines, we build the future, we won the peace.”

Ken Takakura - Matsumoto Masahiro

“I did two tours of duty in southeast Asia and I was married for five years. I couldn't tell you which experience was worse. I knew she was Japanese going in, but she didn't tell me about the Ninja assassin part.”
Stephen J. Lang - Mikey