Saigo [When the Allied forces fire on him]
Why are you always messing with me. It's got to be a joke! [An Allied shell lands right next to him, knocking him over. He sees the shell is a dud] Thank you, God! I take back what I said!
Played by Kazunari Ninomiya 
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) · 48 quotes
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) · 48 quotes
Most-quoted character in Letters from Iwo Jima (2006): in 8 of its 48 quotes
A line from Saigo [Letter to his wife]We soldiers dig. We dig all day. This is the hole that we will fight and die in. Am I digging my own grave?
More lines from Saigo
7 quotes Saigo Saigo [Convincing Shimizu not to kill himself]
We can die here, or we can continue fighting. Which would better serve the emperor?
Saigo [About Nishi's romancing skills]
There are rumors about his womanizing...But there are no women left to woo.
Saigo [In response to a soldier saying death is honorable]
Kashiwara died of honorable dysentery.
Saigo [On Kuribayashi]
He studied the Americans, so he knows how to beat them.
Saigo There is no use for a dead soldier.
Saigo Damn this island! The Americans can have it.
