Sayonara (1957)
Marlon Brando: Major Lloyd Gruver
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Quotes
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Major Gruver : [at a traditional tea ceremony: watching, as a Japanese man spends a lot of time carefully making a cup of tea] He makes such a production of everything.
Hana-ogi : The pleasure does not lie in the end itself... it's the pleasurable steps *to* that end.
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Major Gruver : You know what I saw yesterday? I saw two rocks that just got married.
Captain Bailey : [slightly confused] You what?
Major Gruver : I saw two rocks that got married. And they looked very happy together, too.
Captain Bailey : Oh, I'll bet they did.
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Major Gruver : Are you gonna sit there with your bare face hangin' out and tell me you never heard of Tanabata?
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Joe Kelly : [Major Gruver is entering Joe Kelly's Japanese home for the first time] Hey, off with the shoes. You don't wear shoes in a Japanese house.
Major Gruver : Okay, comin' off... What about the pants?
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Hana-ogi : [pointing to some large rocks right off the seashore] You see the rope between the rocks?
Major Gruver : Yeah?
Hana-ogi : That is a Shinto sign, showing they are married.
Major Gruver : [slightly confused] What, the rocks?
Hana-ogi : Yes... they've been together so long, our people thought it was time they should get married. They look well together, don't you think?
Major Gruver : Yeah, they make a handsome little couple!
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Major Gruver : This is the first liquid rice I have ever run into!
