Barefoot Gen (1983)

Takao Inoue: Daikichi

Quotes 

• Daikichi Nakaoka : This war can't be right. But it's only the cowards like me who dare say it. If there were only a few more like us. You know, sometimes it takes more courage not to fight than to fight, to not want to kill when all around you are calling out for blood. That's real courage in my book. If you boys remember nothing else I teach you, I hope you'll remember that.

• Kimie Nakaoka : Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, they've come against all the biggest cities and bombed them into ruins. It's serious, Gen, I won't have you making light of it.

  Daikichi Nakaoka : There's one thing that bothers me. It's like you said, every major city around us has been bombed over and over again. But never Hiroshima.

• Daikichi Nakaoka : What is it, Eiko? What's the matter?

  Eiko : It's just that the last of the rice is gone, Father, and we have no money to buy anymore.

  Daikichi Nakaoka : Don't worry, something will come along, we'll find the money.

  Eiko : We just have to keep at it and finish our work, maybe then we'll get paid what we're owed.

• Gen Nakaoka : I'd like to know if we'll ever have enough food. Will we?

  Daikichi Nakaoka : Yes, son, when the war is over.

  Gen Nakaoka : When will it be over?

  Daikichi Nakaoka : It won't be long. Japan has all but lost the war.

  Gen Nakaoka : Why do we keep on fighting if we've lost the war?

  Daikichi Nakaoka : Why? Because our government is run by madmen. They're just crazy, stupid... all of them.

• Daikichi Nakaoka : Take a good look around, little one. Look closely, you see? This is the war that killed your father. Remember it.

• Daikichi Nakaoka : I don't have any milk.

  Gen Nakaoka : That's bad, Mother, babies need milk to live.

  Daikichi Nakaoka : We've eaten nothing for 3 days and my milk has dried up. When mothers go hungry, their babies go hungry too. I really must try to find some food, for her sake.