Toshirō MifuneQuotes

Tajômaru: She became very pale and stared at me as though her eyes were frozen. She looked like a child when it turns suddenly serious. The sight of her made me jealous of that man. I started to hate him. I wanted to show her what he looked like, all tied up like that. I hadn't even thought of a thing like that before, but now I did.

Tajômaru: I thought I saw a goddess. At that moment I decided to have her, even if I had to kill her man. But if I could have her without killing, all the better.

Tajômaru: I saw the couple three days ago. It was a hot afternoon. Suddenly a cool breeze rustle the leaves. If it hadn't been for that wind, I wouldn't have killed him.

General Rokurota Makabe: Hide a stone among stones and a man among men.

Kikuchiyo: [about Rikichi] Something's upsetting the little bugger, but he won't say what. You can see it all over his face.

Heihachi: Those lips of his are bolted up tight as a house.

Kikuchiyo: What's that?

Yohei: ... It's my horse.

Kikuchiyo: Horse? I thought it was a big mouse.

Kikuchiyo: I'd hate to die on that dung heap.

Heihachi: Nobody's asking you to.

Kikuchiyo: [He sobs] This baby... is me! This is exactly what happened to me!

Kikuchiyo: Hey, everybody! Give your wives plenty of lovin tonight, you hear?

Kikuchiyo: [to the village children] : Does any of you have a cute sister?

Kikuchiyo: [Kikuchiyo shambles into Rikichi's stable where the farmer had been staying.; Humbled, Rikichi starts to hurry out, but Kikuchiyo grabs him; Kikuchiyo hurls Rikichi onto the straw, then lies down on the straw himself, with a straw mat over his body for a blanket. He sighs] It's me. I'm sleeping here from now on. Those guys cramp my style. Stop cowering, you idiot! This is your place! You hand over your house and sleep in a barn and you still can't stand up for yourself! Go lie back down, you! Brings back memories.

Kikuchiyo: You there, chewing the cud. Can you cut that out? This isn't a cow barn!

Kikuchiyo: [To a bunch of kids laughing at his impression of Yohei] Hey! I'm gonna start charging admission, you know.

Kikuchiyo: [After having rung the alarm; He runs up and down, mimicking the farmers] Don't be so scared! No bandits are coming. Look here, you idiots. We came all this way and look at the welcome you give us! Yet when I ring the alarm a few times... ... you all rush out screaming for us to help you! You bunch of suckers.

Kikuchiyo: [He sinks to his knees, sobbing] What do you think of farmers? You think they're saints? Hah! They're foxy beasts! They say, "We've got no rice, we've no wheat. We've got nothing!" But they have! They have everything! Dig under the floors! Or search the barns! You'll find plenty! Beans, salt, rice, sake! Look in the valleys, they've got hidden warehouses! They pose as saints but are full of lies! If they smell a battle, they hunt the defeated! They're nothing but stingy, greedy, blubbering, foxy, and mean! God damn it all! But then . . . who made them such beasts? You did! You samurai did it! You burn their villages! Destroy their farms! Steal their food! Force them to labour! Take their women! And kill them if they resist! So what should farmers do? Damn it... Damn it... God damn it...

Kikuchiyo: [drunkenly; He clumsily fumbles around in his robe, and presents a scroll from inside it] You again. I see that bald head of yours in my dreams. You had the nerve to ask me if I wazz a samurai. Didn't you, huh? I never forget a face. Look here, though I look like hell, I'm a real samurai, all right. Here. I got something for you. Damn jerks. Looky here. There, juzz you look at this. Izz been handed down in my family for generations and generations. And you asked me if I were a samurai! You jerks. Look at this, juzz look at this! Thazz me right there.