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The Lower Depths (1957)

Minoru Chiaki: Tonosama - the former Samurai

The Lower Depths

Minoru Chiaki credited as playing...

Tonosama - the former Samurai

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  • [Last lines; Tonosama stumbles indoors, dripping wet, interrupting his housemates' impromptu acapella song and dance number]
  • Tonosama - the former Samurai: Hey, everybody! Come quick! The actor hung himself, out back by the cliff!
  • [the other men stare at him aghast. Osen slowly saunters into the doorway, clearly horrified; Tonosama's not lying. There's a long pause]
  • Yoshisaburo the Gambler: It was such a great party, and he had to go and ruin it. Bastard!
  • Tonosama - the former Samurai: There you go again. Cut it out. Lay off the stupid dreams. Huh? You're just a two-bit, slam-bam whore. Huh? Stop imagining you're some kind of virgin.
  • [Osen lunges at him. Tonosama runs away, giggling]
  • Kahei the Pilgrim: Say, my lord, why do you provoke her that way? It's her only pleasure, crying her eyes out that way.
  • Tonosama - the former Samurai: [lazily] I'm sick and tired of her tales.
  • [He scoffs]
  • Tonosama - the former Samurai: Makes me sick.
  • Yoshisaburo the Gambler: Money buys your fate in hell.
  • Tonosama - the former Samurai: Money buys you Buddha's mercy.
  • Tonosama - the former Samurai: Hey, gramps, you're quite the scoundrel, aren't you?
  • Kahei the Pilgrim: Never judge a book by its cover.
  • Tsugaru: Hey, card up the sleeve! I saw!
  • Tonosama - the former Samurai: What the...?
  • The Actor: Bad move, rich man.
  • Tsugaru: I saw it! You cheated! I quit!
  • Tonosama - the former Samurai: Lose barely 100 pennies and you shriek like you've lost a fortune.
  • [He scoffs]
  • Tonosama - the former Samurai: You're one hell of a rich man!
  • Tsugaru: You've got to gamble honestly!
  • Tonosama - the former Samurai: In the old days, I lived in the lap of luxury. As the shogun's vassal, I was in the inner circle, no matter how poor. From first light to last, I ordered everybody around. In the bath, I never washed or dried. My maid took care of all that.
  • Okayo, Osugi's Sister: I imagine all kinds of things too - and keep expecting them to happen.
  • Tonosama - the former Samurai: What kind of things?
  • Okayo, Osugi's Sister: What kinds? Well, for instance, that maybe tomorrow someone will appear, someone good. Like that. If not, then something will happen, something good. I think about such things, and I'm always waiting.
  • Tonosama - the former Samurai: Me, I'm not waiting for anything at all. All the good stuff in my life already happened.

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