A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
Yoshiko Tsubouchi: Otoki
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Quotes
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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]
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Otaka : I have a favor to ask you. Try to seduce that boy who was at the restaurant today.
Otoki : I'm not interested in children.
Otaka : You'd be doing me a favor. Try.
Otoki : Why?
Otaka : [Gives Otoki some money] Take it or leave it.
Otoki : You really think I could?
Otaka : Bat your eyes and you could catch any man you wanted. Just turn on the charm.
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Otoki : Are you angry because I asked you to meet me? I wanted to see you. Don't you like talking with girls?
