Odd Obsession (1959)

Ganjirô Nakamura: Kenji Kenmochi

Quotes 

• [English subtitled version] 

  Kenji Kenmochi : You're not very nice today. Still angry about last night?

  Ikuko Kenmochi : What do you mean?

  Kenji Kenmochi : You always feign ignorance.

  Ikuko Kenmochi : Certain things are better left unsaid.

  Kenji Kenmochi : Spoken like a priest's daughter.

• [English subtitled version] 

  Kenji Kenmochi : Toshiko is hard to understand sometimes.

  Kimura : She's wise.

  Kenji Kenmochi : When someone says a girl is bright, he means she is homely.

  Kimura : You misunderstood me.

  Kenji Kenmochi : She doesn't have her mother's looks, but they're very much alike.

• [English subtitled version] 

  Kenji Kenmochi : [about Toshiko]  What a nasty girl! She pays no attention to what I want.

  Ikuko Kenmochi : She doesn't mean it, I guess.

  Kenji Kenmochi : She takes after you.

  Ikuko Kenmochi : You think so? I think she's quite like you.

• [English subtitled version] 

  Kenji Kenmochi : Thank you for taking care of me. I remember it vaguely. You carried me here, gave me an injection and nursed me until dawn.

  Kimura : Injection? I did not. I left around 12:00.

  Kenji Kenmochi : But look. The mark. You stayed here until dawn, didn't you?

  Kimura : Did I... behave?

  Kenji Kenmochi : What's come over me? Don't we sometimes have fantastic dreams?

  Kimura : It was probably just a wild dream.

• [English subtitled version] 

  Kenji Kenmochi : I dislike being pawed by a stranger.

• [English subtitled version] 

  Toshiko Kenmochi : Bamboo shoot soup. Boiled beans. Frozen bean curd in soy sauce. Fried lotus roots. I cooked them.

  Kenji Kenmochi : I prefer meat dishes.

• [English subtitled version] 

  Ikuko Kenmochi : I was a fool, playing a fine lady. I'm beginning to see it now. I feel I've awakened as a woman. You've been so patient with me. For such a long time, I've made you suffer. Forgive me.

  Kenji Kenmochi : You're sweet. Thank you.

• [English subtitled version] 

  Kenji Kenmochi : The doctor warned me several months ago that I should take care of my health. But I thought life would be empty if I had to give up our pleasures. At last you've become mine, body and soul. I'm satisfied.

  Ikuko Kenmochi : I'll do anything you want me to.

• [English subtitled version] 

  Kenji Kenmochi : Enjoy the movie?