“Imagine someone who hates you with the utmost intensity grabbing a...” – Nathan Algren, The Last Samurai ... Movie Quotes Database

Imagine someone who hates you with the utmost intensity grabbing a handful of your hair while you're lying prostrate and helpless. Then scraping the dull blade of a rusty knife across you scalp. And let your imagination grasp if you can, Mr. Graham, the effect that a strong, quick jerk on the turf of your hair to release any clinging particles would have on your nervous system.

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Colonel Bagley Just tell me one thing. What is it about your own people that you hate so much? Simon Graham [opening narration]: They say Japan was made by a sword. They say the old gods dipped a coral blade into the ocean, and when they pulled it out four perfect drops fell back into the sea, and those drops became the islands of Japan. I say, Japan was made by a handful of brave men. Warriors, willing to give their lives for what seems to have become a forgotten word: honor. Nathan Algren There is some comfort in the emptiness of the sea, no past, no future.