The Man in the High Castle (TV Series)

The Road Less Traveled (2016)

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa: Nobusuke Tagomi

Quotes 

• Librarian : What we do not understand can be frightening.

  Nobusuke Tagomi : Yes it can be, but when one is troubled by the reality of this world, it can be comforting to consider other possibilities, even if those possibilities disturb us. So strong is the desire to escape the tyranny of consciousness and the narrow boundaries of our perceptions, to unlock the prisons of thought in which we trap ourselves all in the hope that a better world or a better version of ourselves perhaps may lie on the other side of the door.

• [first lines] 

  Nobusuke Tagomi : [gloriously recounting]  In our favor, however, an enemy who underestimates the strength of our resolve. And in war, surprise is a formidable weapon. Given our numbers, the last thing the Americans expected was a frontal assault. So That is precisely what I ordered.

  Alice Adler : And it worked?

  Nobusuke Tagomi : Would you have tolerated my stories if it had not?

  [uncomfortable pause, then laughs heartily]