The Lower Depths (1957)

Kamatari Fujiwara: The Actor

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Quotes 

• Sutekichi the Thief : I was having a great dream. I was fishing, and I'd just hooked this monster snapper. Truly a dream fish. I was just about to land that fish.

  Yoshisaburo the Gambler : That's no snapper. That's Osugi.

  The Actor : You landed Osugi long ago.

  Sutekichi the Thief : Who asked you?

  [Yoshisaburo and the actor laugh] 

  Sutekichi the Thief : Scram, the bitch and the lot of you.

• The Actor : I can't risk breathing dust. Doc's orders. "Your bitol organs are poisoned with alcohol."

  Yoshisaburo the Gambler : You mean "vital organs".

  The Actor : That's right, my bitol organs.

  Yoshisaburo the Gambler : It's definitely gone to your tongue. Another six months and you'll have full-blown palsy.

• 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!

• Rokubei, Osugi's Husband : Human kindness can't be bought for pennies or silver. Kindness is kindness. Pennies and silver are pennies and silver. Can't mix the wheat with the chaff.

  The Actor : You half-dead, greedy bastard!

• The Actor : Just you wait. You really will go to hell.

  Yoshisaburo the Gambler : Don't be ridiculous. How can you to hell if you're already there?

• Rokubei, Osugi's Husband : You're a kind man. You did a good thing. "A life of kindness will someday be rewarded."

  The Actor : When, I'd like to know?

  Rokubei, Osugi's Husband : In the next world.

  The Actor : I say I want my rewards right here and now.

• The Actor : I had a fantastic memory. But look at me now. It's curtains for me. That's right. When I intoned my lines, you could count on it. The audience went wild. You wouldn't understand, but it felt like a thousand silver coins! You strike your pose, and then - Can't remember a thing. Not even a word. It was my favorite part. This is terrible.

  Kahei the Pilgrim : It's not good when you can't even remember your favorite things. Our favorite things are the very core of our lives.

  The Actor : I managed to drink up that "core of life."