Why Not? (1981)

Shigeru Izumiya: Genji

Quotes 

• Ine : If I went back, then what? I'd be digging graves. I'd hunt animals. I hate being poor, eating only barnyard millet. In Edo, not even dogs eat it.

  Genji : You'd rather make money with that show? You looked ridiculous.

  Ine : Maybe I don't. look great, so what? I'm not selling my body, but my art. What's wrong with taking money showing them what they want?

• Genji : What's One doing? Is she well? What happened to One, Senmatsu?

  Senmatsu : We sold her.

  Genji : You sold her?

  Senmatsu : It was either sell her or not eat! It wasn't just us. All the poor sold their daughters and wives.

  Genji : Senmatsu! She's my wife!

  Senmatsu : She's your wife? You left her alone for five or six years. You were wandering in America. Don't call yourself her husband, you scoundrel!

• Genji : [singing]  Swing low, Sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home, Swing low, Sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home.

  Ine : [speaking]  Not bad for an American song.

  Genji : America is an insanely big country. The land is fertile. Corn, beans, wheat. You can grow anything, as much as you want. It's easy to cultivate the land. You can own the land fair and square. The farmers are totally different from the peasants in Japan. Japanese peasants are just slaves.

• Genji : No way. If I sleep with you, my thing will rot and fall off.

• Ine : Forgive me, Genji, I'm drunk. Look, Genji. Look, the heavens are moving. You say the earth turns, but look. Look, lying here like this, you can really tell. Come on. Let's do it here, shall we?

  Genji : Do what?

  Ine : "Fuck, fuck."

  Genji : You can't be serious.

  [Ine laughs]