Quotes

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Kambei Shimada: Go to the north. The decisive battle will be fought there. Gorobei Katayama: Why didn't you build a fence there? Kambei Shimada: A good fort needs a gap. The enemy must be lured in. So we can attack them. If we only defend, we lose the war.

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Villager: How can we find a samurai we can pay with only rice? Gisaku: Find hungry samurai.

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Gorobei Katayama: You're good. Heihachi Hayashida: Yeah, yeah. But I'm better at killing enemies. Gorobei Katayama: Killed many? Heihachi Hayashida: Well — it's impossible to kill 'em all, so I usually run away. Heihachi Hayashida: Thank you.

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Kambei Shimada: As a matter of fact, I'm preparing for a tough war. It will bring us neither money nor fame. Want to join? Shichirōji: Yes! Kambei Shimada: Maybe we die this time.

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Katsushiro Okamoto: Is he really a samurai? Kambei Shimada: He only thinks he is.

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Kikuchiyo: I'd hate to die on that dung heap. Heihachi: Nobody's asking you to.

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Bandit: Help! Help me! Bandit: Help! Kambei: Back off! He's a prisoner of war. He confessed. He's begging for his life. We can't just chop him to pieces. Peasant: Stay out of this! Rikichi: Let me at him! Gisaku: Let her avenge her son's death in her own way. Make way there. Somebody help her!

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He has the real samurai spirit. He is totally fearless. Yet at the same time, he is gentle, and modest- look how he acted after he went and got that gun. And how he went too- just as though he were going up into the hills to look for mushrooms.

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Kikuchiyo: What's that? Yohei: ... It's my horse. Kikuchiyo: Horse? I thought it was a big mouse.

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Kikuchiyo: [about Rikichi] Something's upsetting the little bugger, but he won't say what. You can see it all over his face. Heihachi: Those lips of his are bolted up tight as a house.