Why Not? (1981)

Kaori Momoi: Ine

Quotes 

• Ine : Have I changed? I haven't changed, have I? You haven't changed a bit. It doesn't seem real that you spent six years in America. Genji, my dear. I haven't changed, have I? Come on, say I haven't changed. Come on.

• Ine : Genji. I love you, Genji. I may have sold my body, but not even once did I sell my heart. Your smell, Genji, I never forgot it. Listen, Genji, my dear.

  [puts Genji's hand in her crotch] 

  Ine : What do they call this in America?

• Ine : When a woman is living alone, idiots come and say many things.

• Ine : If I went back, then what? I'd be digging graves. I'd hunt animals. I hate being poor, eating only barnyard millet. In Edo, not even dogs eat it.

  Genji : You'd rather make money with that show? You looked ridiculous.

  Ine : Maybe I don't. look great, so what? I'm not selling my body, but my art. What's wrong with taking money showing them what they want?

• Genji : [singing]  Swing low, Sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home, Swing low, Sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home.

  Ine : [speaking]  Not bad for an American song.

  Genji : America is an insanely big country. The land is fertile. Corn, beans, wheat. You can grow anything, as much as you want. It's easy to cultivate the land. You can own the land fair and square. The farmers are totally different from the peasants in Japan. Japanese peasants are just slaves.

• Ine : I'm the reincarnation of Grandma Bear. My great grandma went into the mountains and did it with a bear. Then she had Grandma Bear.

• Ine : Forgive me, Genji, I'm drunk. Look, Genji. Look, the heavens are moving. You say the earth turns, but look. Look, lying here like this, you can really tell. Come on. Let's do it here, shall we?

  Genji : Do what?

  Ine : "Fuck, fuck."

  Genji : You can't be serious.

  [Ine laughs] 

• Ine : Cowards! Idiots! You bastards are always like this. You can only bully and prey on the weak. Scum! Wimps! Morons! Peasants!