A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) Poster

Kôji Mitsui: Shinkichi

Quotes 

  • Kihachi : Where have you been? Why act like nothing's happened?

    Otoki : [Kihachi hits Otoki repeatedly]  Forgive me, Master.

    Shinkichi : She apologized. Why hit her?

    [Father hits son] 

    Kihachi : You're to blame too. Don't you know your mother worries about you?

    [the men fight. Kihachi falls down] 

    Otsune, Ka-yan : What are you doing? Who do you think he is? The man you hit just now is your father.

    [Kihachi scratches his back] 

    Shinkichi : I have no father like him. My father was a civil servant. He's dead. If my father were alive, he'd never have abandoned us for 20 years. All these years it's just been us. Right, Mother? No father could be that selfish.

    Otsune, Ka-yan : What if, out of respect for his son, he couldn't call himself father. He didn't want you to be a traveling actor like him. He wanted you to have an education and a good job. That's why he had to lie and live in loneliness. He's been poor, but wherever he was, he always paid for your schooling. Aren't you sorry for striking such a considerate father?

    [Shinkichi cries and rushes out of frame] 

  • Shinkichi : Uncle? Where is Uncle?

    Otsune, Ka-yan : You mean Father?

    [Shinkichi nods] 

    Otsune, Ka-yan : He went on the road again. Don't try to stop him. Just be a great man. That's all he wants. Since you were born, he's been coming here with that one hope in mind.

    [Shinkichi and Otoki cry. Shot of the daruma doll] 

  • Otoki : I'm not the girl you think. I'm not worthy of a man like you. I tried to make a fool of you at first. It started that way, but...

    Shinkichi : Never mind how it started.

    Otoki : Don't get mixed up with a traveling player like me.

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