- Takako Numata: [referring to her younger sister, Akiko] Father, please be more gentle with her. She grew up without knowing a mother's love. That's why she's so lonely.
- Yasuo Numata: They say it's easier to love your grandchildren than your children. What do you think, Father? I don't believe that. People may think it's easier, but that's not real love. Can love, so to speak, skip a generation like that? I don't think so. It it does, it's a tragedy. Love between parent and child is the the primitive instinct of all.
- Shigeko Takeuchi: What on earth are young people thinking these days? Hurry and marry her off.
- Shûkichi Sugiyama: Perhaps I should.
- Shigeko Takeuchi: I'll start looking for a match right away. It should be easy. She's a pretty girl.
- Gihei Shimomura, noodle vendor: Girls these days sure are hot-tempered. They'll walk all over you if you're not tough.
- Takako Numata: I remember quite well. Soon after Father came back, he took us to the zoo. It was a sunny day. You were so happy. You toddled this way and that. On the way home that evening, you fell asleep on the train, and Father carried you on his back.
- Gihei Shimomura, noodle vendor: I forgot to tell them the name of my place. Chinchin-Ken. Please tell them it's called Chinchin-Ken.
- Barfly: Say, who was that? Nice-looking girl.
- Gerbera Bartender: Her? She's a wild one.
- Barfly: What's wrong with that? Bad girls are more fun than the good ones.
- Gihei Shimomura, noodle vendor: It was a close call. I heard a train whistle and rushed out to find her like this. She had just left my place. That's always been a dangerous crossing. Lots of accidents. One newspaper called it, "the devil's crossing." Nothing had happened recently, but now this. What a mess. The watchman was taking a leak. He saw the train coming and rushed to lower the gate, pee still dribbling. But it was too late. She'd already been hit. Poor guy's taking it pretty hard.
- Seafood Restaurant Owner: You're just in time. I just got some salted sea cucumber from home.
- Shûkichi Sugiyama: Sounds good. Some warm sake, please.
- Seafood Restaurant Owner: I also got some Mayoya oysters. Want some?
- Shûkichi Sugiyama: Sounds good.
- Seafood Restaurant Owner: Any special way?
- Shûkichi Sugiyama: Afterward, with rice gruel.
- Seafood Restaurant Owner: Okay.
- Seafood Restaurant Customer: I'd like some oysters, too. With vinegar. Also afterward, with rice gruel.
- Shûkichi Sugiyama: I once went to Kashiko Island.
- Seafood Restaurant Customer: Nice place. You in the pearl business?
- Shûkichi Sugiyama: No, I'm actually a banker. The sea's so blue there.
- Seafood Restaurant Customer: And deep too. I took a ferry tour around the whole island. Pearls need a place like that in order to grow naturally. The late Mr. Mikimoto sure found the right spot.
- Yakko: I'll take that. Three triplets with a Lucky Dragon.
- Gerbera Bartender: Don't you two overdo it. You can go blind, you know.
- Sakae Aiba: You don't want to go? I don't want to go by myself. I could never sleep alone in the freezing cold in Muroran. Come on. Let's go together.