Izo Yamura: Right after the war, my house in Tokyo was used by an American general and his family. When it was returned to me, it had: flowered wallpaper, three new bathrooms, and four new closets. Americans, I think, are over-devoted to bathrooms and closets.
Pete Aron: Well, we accumulate things.
Izo Yamura: And then you lock them away in closets. And the bathrooms?
Pete Aron: No, no, you don't get me on that one.
Quotes from Toshiro Mifune movies and TV shows
Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda: My log.
General Rokurota Makabe: Hide a stone among stones and a man among men.
Tajômaru: I had never seen such fierceness in a woman.
Tajômaru: I already had you, but I only want you more. It's very hard. I beg you to be my wife.
Dr. Kyojô Niide: Poverty's a political problem they say. But what has politics ever done for the poor? Has a law been passed to get rid of poverty and ignorance?
Dr. Noboru Yasumoto: But this place! Government funds-.
Dr. Kyojô Niide: Better this than nothing. The problem is deeper than that. If it weren't for poverty, half of these people wouldn't be sick.
Dr. Noboru Yasumoto: I know.
Dr. Kyojô Niide: There is always some story of great misfortune behind illness.
Sanjûrô Tsubaki: Stupid friends are dangerous.
Sanjûrô Tsubaki: If it sounds to good to be true it usually is.