Sayonara (1957)
Miiko Taka: Hana-Ogi
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Quotes
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Hana-ogi : The pleasure does not lie in the end itself. It's in the pleasurable steps to that end.
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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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Hana-ogi : I'm so frightened and confused. I cannot think. I cannot even understand your thinking.
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Hana-ogi : [watching a traditional Japanese puppet performance about two doomed lovers] It is custom for lovers to die together when they can no longer face life.
Katsumi : [dreamily] It is so beautiful...
Joe Kelly : "Beautiful"? They're gonna' die, aren't they?
Katsumi : [dreamily] They will live in another world, on a beautiful lake, floating always together, like water lily.
Joe Kelly : [makes a face] Sure.
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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!
