High and Low (1963) quotes

15 total quotes

Ginjirô Takeuchi – Tsutomu Yamazaki
Inspector Tokura
Kingo Gondo – Toshirō Mifune
Reiko Gondo – Kyōko Kagawa

View Quote ...Besides, it's amusing to make fortunate men taste the same misery as the unfortunate.

View Quote Aoki: No human being can kill an innocent child.

View Quote Inspector Tokura: That Gondo is all right.
Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi: Usually I waste no love on the rich. I didn't like him at first.

View Quote Kawanishi: I know how much this money means to you, but a human life means more.

View Quote Kingo Gondo: Why should you and I hate each other?
Ginjirô Takeuchi: I don't know. I'm not interested in self-analysis. I do know my room was so cold in winter and so hot in summer I couldn't sleep. Your house looked like heaven, high up there. That's how I began to hate you.

View Quote Reiko Gondo: Success isn't worth losing your humanity.
Kingo Gondo: A woman can't understand. This isn't about wanting to become president. I just want to make shoes my way.

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.

View Quote [to her husband, about their son Jun] He takes after you. He likes violent games.

View Quote A man must kill or be killed.

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

View Quote For Mr. Gondo's sake, be bloodhounds!

View Quote I'd rather be told the cruel truth than be fed gentle lies.

View Quote Mr. Gondo, I know it's late to be saying this... but you have the right to protect your own livelihood. It's our duty to help you. We want to save the child, but not by sacrificing you.

View Quote Taking the wrong boy was a lucky break. Did you know Mr. Gondo that it's only extortion when you threaten a person or his kin? In other words, this doesn't count. But you have to pay anyway. You're a fool to pay, but pay you must.

View Quote You think I'm shaking out of fear, but I'm not! It's just the physiological reaction from being in solitary too long. Just leaving the cell makes me shake. I'm not afraid of death. I don't care if I go to hell. My life has been hell since the day I was born. [laughs] But if I had to go to heaven, then I'd really start to tremble. [laughs]