Sanjuro - The Dangers of Sharpness and Violence
Mutsuta's wife:
You're too sharp. That's your trouble. You're like a drawn sword. Sharp, naked without a sheath. You cut well. But good swords are kept in their sheaths.
Mutsuta's wife:
Killing people is a bad habit.
Mutsuta, the Chamberlain:
Once as I rode by, someone said "the rider has a longer face than the horse.
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Ikiru - The Tragedy of Life's Beauty and Mortality
Novelist:
How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death.
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Ikiru - Art and Its Directness in Expression
Novelist:
That's not art. A striptease isn't art. It's too direct. It's more direct than art. That woman's body up there? It's a big juicy steak. It's a glass of gin. It's a hormone extract. Streptomycin. Uranium!
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