Kamatari Fujiwara credited as playing...
The Actor
- Sutekichi the Thief: I was having a great dream. I was fishing, and I'd just hooked this monster snapper. Truly a dream fish. I was just about to land that fish.
- Yoshisaburo the Gambler: That's no snapper. That's Osugi.
- The Actor: You landed Osugi long ago.
- Sutekichi the Thief: Who asked you?
- [Yoshisaburo and the actor laugh]
- Sutekichi the Thief: Scram, the bitch and the lot of you.
- The Actor: I can't risk breathing dust. Doc's orders. "Your bitol organs are poisoned with alcohol."
- Yoshisaburo the Gambler: You mean "vital organs".
- The Actor: That's right, my bitol organs.
- Yoshisaburo the Gambler: It's definitely gone to your tongue. Another six months and you'll have full-blown palsy.
- 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!
- Rokubei, Osugi's Husband: Human kindness can't be bought for pennies or silver. Kindness is kindness. Pennies and silver are pennies and silver. Can't mix the wheat with the chaff.
- The Actor: You half-dead, greedy bastard!
- The Actor: Just you wait. You really will go to hell.
- Yoshisaburo the Gambler: Don't be ridiculous. How can you to hell if you're already there?
- Rokubei, Osugi's Husband: You're a kind man. You did a good thing. "A life of kindness will someday be rewarded."
- The Actor: When, I'd like to know?
- Rokubei, Osugi's Husband: In the next world.
- The Actor: I say I want my rewards right here and now.
- The Actor: I had a fantastic memory. But look at me now. It's curtains for me. That's right. When I intoned my lines, you could count on it. The audience went wild. You wouldn't understand, but it felt like a thousand silver coins! You strike your pose, and then - Can't remember a thing. Not even a word. It was my favorite part. This is terrible.
- Kahei the Pilgrim: It's not good when you can't even remember your favorite things. Our favorite things are the very core of our lives.
- The Actor: I managed to drink up that "core of life."