Toshirō Mifune movie quotes

47 quotes from 6 movies

The Seven Samurai (1954) as Kikuchiyo

View Quote [After having rung the alarm] Don't be so scared! No bandits are coming. Look here, you idiots. We came all this way and look at the welcome you give us! Yet when I ring the alarm a few times... [He runs up and down, mimicking the farmers] ... you all rush out screaming for us to help you! You bunch of suckers.

View Quote [To a bunch of kids laughing at his impression of Yohei] Hey! I'm gonna start charging admission, you know.

View Quote This baby... is me! This is exactly what happened to me! [He sobs]

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Yojimbo (1961) as Sanjuro Kuwabatake

View Quote I'm not dying yet. I have to kill quite a few men first.

View Quote [Sanjuro has just killed two men and cut the arm off a third] Cooper. Two coffins... No, maybe three.

View Quote [after the gamblers have challenged him] No help for fools. [draws sword and kills two of them]

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The Hidden Fortress (1958) as General Rokurota Makabe

View Quote Hide a stone among stones and a man among men.

View Quote Izumi Nagakura: What shall we do with the princess? We can disguise her looks, but not her class and her speech.
General Makabe: Her Highness will have to be a mute.

View Quote Izumi Nagakura: This is good! To fool the Yamana by going through enemy lines.
General Makabe: This was the peasants' idea. Depending on their answers, I was ready to kill them. But hearing their plan to go through Yamana to Hayakawa, I was stunned.
Izumi Nagakura: Sometimes even moss can be smart.

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Sanjuro (1962) as Sanjûrô Tsubaki

View Quote He was exactly like me. A naked sword. He didn't stay in his sheath.

View Quote You tired of being stupid yet?

View Quote Stupid friends are dangerous.

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High and Low (1963) as Kingo Gondo

View Quote A woman wears a hat on her head, but shoes carry all her weight.

View Quote A man must kill or be killed.

View Quote Reiko Gondo: What just happened?
Kingo Gondo: Nothing.
Reiko Gondo: It certainly didn't look that way.
Kingo Gondo: Don't worry. You wouldn't understand. It's business.
Reiko Gondo: You always say that to keep me quiet.

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Rashomon (1950) as Tajômaru

View Quote She became very pale and stared at me as though her eyes were frozen. She looked like a child when it turns suddenly serious. The sight of her made me jealous of that man. I started to hate him. I wanted to show her what he looked like, all tied up like that. I hadn't even thought of a thing like that before, but now I did.

View Quote I saw the couple three days ago. It was a hot afternoon. Suddenly a cool breeze rustle the leaves. If it hadn't been for that wind, I wouldn't have killed him.

View Quote I thought I saw a goddess. At that moment I decided to have her, even if I had to kill her man. But if I could have her without killing, all the better.