James Shigeta credited as playing...
Takagi
- John McClane: You throw quite a party. I didn't realize they celebrated Christmas in Japan.
- Joseph Takagi: Hey, we're flexible. Pearl Harbor didn't work out so we got you with tape decks.
- Joseph Takagi: You want money? What kind of terrorists are you?
- Hans Gruber: [Chuckling] Who said we were terrorists?
- Takagi: [Hans is threatening to kill Takagi if he doesn't divulge the code to the vault] I don't know it, I'm telling you. Get on a jet to Tokyo and ask the Chairman. I'm telling you, you're just going to have to kill me.
- Hans Gruber: Okay.
- [shoots Takagi in the head]
- Hans Gruber: We do it the hard way.
- Hans Gruber: Now, where is Mr. Takagi? Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi, born in Kyoto, Japan, 1937. Family immigrated to San Pedro , California, 1939. Interned Manzanar, 1942 to 43. Scholarship student University of California, 1955. Law degree, Stanford, 1962. MBA , Harvard, 1970. President, Nakatomi Corporation. Chairman, Nakatomi Investment Group...
- Joseph Takagi: [interrupting] Enough!
- Hans Gruber: [concluding] and father of five.
- Joseph Takagi: I am Takagi!