No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

Akitake Kôno: Itokawa

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Quotes 

• Itokawa : I can see the university. Kyoto University, the garden of freedom! The glorious tower! Mecca for students!

• Yukie Yagihara : Listen, Itokawa. Sit down. Kowtow and apologize to me.

  Itokawa : Why?

  Yukie Yagihara : No questions! Do it. Please do. Do it now! Quickly. Quickly. Do it now! Quickly. Quickly.

  [Itokawa starts to bow] 

  Yukie Yagihara : What are you doing? Don't do it. Forget it. Forget it.

• Yukie Yagihara : If I follow you, my life will be peaceful. But, if I may say so -

  [bows] 

  Yukie Yagihara : It'll be boring.

  Itokawa : With Noge?

  Yukie Yagihara : If I follow him, something dazzling will await me. My life will be stormy.

  [laughs] 

  Yukie Yagihara : It terrifies me and fascinates me.

• Itokawa : His way of life is astonishing. He's walking on a wall.

• Itokawa : I don't want you to live in a place like this. Noge took the wrong way. But you shouldn't.

  [laughs] 

  Itokawa : All right. You beat me. Your zeal is amazing. Your passion for life makes me feel small.