The Lower Depths (1957)

Minoru Chiaki: Tonosama - the former Samurai

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• [Last lines; Tonosama stumbles indoors, dripping wet, interrupting his housemates' impromptu acapella song and dance number] 

  Tonosama - the former Samurai : Hey, everybody! Come quick! The actor hung himself, out back by the cliff!

  [the other men stare at him aghast. Osen slowly saunters into the doorway, clearly horrified; Tonosama's not lying. There's a long pause] 

  Yoshisaburo the Gambler : It was such a great party, and he had to go and ruin it. Bastard!

• Tonosama - the former Samurai : There you go again. Cut it out. Lay off the stupid dreams. Huh? You're just a two-bit, slam-bam whore. Huh? Stop imagining you're some kind of virgin.

  [Osen lunges at him. Tonosama runs away, giggling] 

• Kahei the Pilgrim : Say, my lord, why do you provoke her that way? It's her only pleasure, crying her eyes out that way.

  Tonosama - the former Samurai : [lazily]  I'm sick and tired of her tales.

  [He scoffs] 

  Tonosama - the former Samurai : Makes me sick.

• Yoshisaburo the Gambler : Money buys your fate in hell.

  Tonosama - the former Samurai : Money buys you Buddha's mercy.

• Tonosama - the former Samurai : Hey, gramps, you're quite the scoundrel, aren't you?

  Kahei the Pilgrim : Never judge a book by its cover.

• Tsugaru : Hey, card up the sleeve! I saw!

  Tonosama - the former Samurai : What the...?

  The Actor : Bad move, rich man.

  Tsugaru : I saw it! You cheated! I quit!

  Tonosama - the former Samurai : Lose barely 100 pennies and you shriek like you've lost a fortune.

  [He scoffs] 

  Tonosama - the former Samurai : You're one hell of a rich man!

  Tsugaru : You've got to gamble honestly!

• Tonosama - the former Samurai : In the old days, I lived in the lap of luxury. As the shogun's vassal, I was in the inner circle, no matter how poor. From first light to last, I ordered everybody around. In the bath, I never washed or dried. My maid took care of all that.

• Okayo, Osugi's Sister : I imagine all kinds of things too - and keep expecting them to happen.

  Tonosama - the former Samurai : What kind of things?

  Okayo, Osugi's Sister : What kinds? Well, for instance, that maybe tomorrow someone will appear, someone good. Like that. If not, then something will happen, something good. I think about such things, and I'm always waiting.

  Tonosama - the former Samurai : Me, I'm not waiting for anything at all. All the good stuff in my life already happened.