Takeshi Kaneshiro credited as playing...
Kenji
- Death: He said that you stopped him for no reason.
- Kenji: No reason? No, I saw him in my dreams. And you... Who are you?
- Death: I... I am...
- Young Arab: Chukhram.
- Death: He also wants to thank you.
- Kenji: Thank me? For what?
- Death: He's been running all his life. He must have been tired. We must go.
- Kenji: Wait! Wait! Wait! I don't get it, OK?
- Death: [smirking] How do you want me to disappear?
- Kenji: What?
- Death: Never mind. I'll see you.
- [gives Kenji a kiss on the cheek]
- Kenji: [about the book by Balzac] What's it about?
- Balzac Man: A young man, ambitious, goes to Paris, try to make it there. But why do you ask me what it's about when I'm in the midst of reading it?
- Kenji: Oh, yeah, right. It's just like watching movie; while you're watching it you cannot tell yet.
- Balzac Man: Just like life itself. You can't know about it until you've lived it all.
- Fabrizio: Just like hard-on, you know. You don't know what it feel like until you had one.
- Balzac Man: That's irrelevant.
- Kenji: What does a hard-on have to do with Balzac?
- Fabrizio: *Balzac*--French, you know.
- Kenji: Shame on you.
- John Sage: Excuse me?
- Kenji: Aren't you ashamed of seducing such a young woman? Behave like an old man.
- John Sage: Do I look like an old man?
- Kenji: Of course! You don't think you're still a teenager, do you?
- John Sage: No, not for some time.
- Kenji: So, find someone your age.
- John Sage: Young man, I know all this seems a little absurd to you. When I was your age, I felt the same way. But when you're a little older, you'll understand.
- Kenji: [laughs] I'm glad I won't have to.
- [sits down at the table]
- Kenji: You should let her go, she doesn't belong to you. That young lady needs to meet guys of her age.
- John Sage: You wanna meet her, is that right?
- Kenji: No, not me. I'm dying tonight.
- John Sage: Excuse me?
- Kenji: Don't worry, I'm not comitting suicide. I just found out that I'm going to die tonight. That's all.
- John Sage: How are you gonna die?
- Kenji: Um, she didn't tell me that part, so...
- John Sage: She?
- Kenji: Death. Well, she showed up this morning and told me that I'm going to die tonight, so she hopes that I can do whatever I want. Isn't that nice?
- John Sage: Well, aren't you gonna fight her?
- Kenji: What for? I'm not a fool. Would you?
- John Sage: I'd like you to come to my place tonight. Anouk and I are hosting a small dinner party and we'd like you to be there. I'll give you the address. I think it should be fun, if you have nothing better to do. There'll be girls there. Your age.
- Kenji: Oh, thank you for your invitation, but what's the use?
- John Sage: Well, you say you're gonna die tonight. Don't you think you should live life to the last minute? The last second?
- Kenji: Mr. Sage, if you want, you can fuck me. Why not? Let's all get fucked!
- John Sage: I think you better leave.
- Kenji: Yeah, sure. This is your place and you're being a wonderful host and I should be grateful, shouldn't I? But I'm acting like an asshole! I know that. What do you want from me, though? Why did you invite me here? Why did you invite a guy who says he's going to die? And you!
- [turns to Anouk]
- Kenji: Why do you pretend you don't remember me? Didn't we kiss? Didn't we enjoy it? Why do you deny it?
- John Sage: What's he talking about?
- Kenji: Mr. Sage, I'm sorry, I know you don't like the truth, but I saw Anouk at the gallery this morning before I met you, and we kissed in front of your big paintings.