Nick Conklin quotes from Black Rain (1989)

Nick Conklin

If you pull it, you better use it.

Nick Conklin

I usually get kissed before I get ****.

Nick Conklin

One good hand job deserves another.

Nick Conklin

Now, you got a counterfeiting ring going on and you should talk to your partner before you go to the suits. So **** you very much!

Berg

That's a king-sized nut. I admire your thrift

Nick Conklin

Yeah, well, life's a bitch.

Crown

We did the math, Hero. You're twenty grand in the hole a month. You're into the shylocks, Conklin, you're takin'.

Nick Conklin

Look, you wanna charge me, you charge me, okay? You wanna jerk off, you go back to your office.

Nick Conklin

Just hope they got a Nip in this building who speaks **** English.

Assistant Inspector Matsumoto Masahiro, Criminal Investigation section, Osaka Prefecture police. And I do speak **** English.

Perhaps you should think less of yourself and more of your group. Try to work like in Japanese. I grew up with your soldiers; you were wise then. Now - music and movies are all America is good for. We make the machines, we build the future, we won the peace.

Nick Conklin

And if there was ONE of you guys who had an original idea, you'd be so tight that you couldn't even pull it out of your ass!

Sugai

He might as well be an American. His kind respect just one thing: money.

Nick Conklin

So what are you into it for? Love?

Sugai

I was 10 when the B-29 came. My family lived underground for three days. When we came up the city was gone. Then the heat brought rain. Black rain. You made the rain black, and shoved your values down our throat. We forgot who we were. You created Sato and thousands like him. I'm paying you back.

Nick Conklin

A couple of guys I used to work with in the department took some money from some drug dealers. No big deal.

They stole?

Nick Conklin

They liberated funds.

Theft is theft. There is no gray area.

Nick Conklin

Hey, Matsu. New York is one big gray area.

Joyce

Look, I've been living in this country for seven years, and I still can't read the headlines. Yes means no. Maybe means never.

Nick Conklin

You still didn't answer my question. How do I get to him?

Joyce

Let the police handle it. Nobody's going to help a gaijin.

Nick Conklin

Gaijin?

Joyce

Yeah, a stranger. A barbarian. A foreigner. Me and you... More you.

Joyce

Because you could get me killed. You see, there's a war going on here, and they don't take prisoners.

Nick Conklin

What are you talking about?

Joyce

It's between Sato and an old crime boss named Sugai.

Nick Conklin

Who else knows about this war?

Joyce

Counting you and me? [beat] Eleven million.