One Way Ticket to Love (1960)

Kazuya Kosaka: Kenji Shirai

Quotes 

• Kenji Shirai : Isn't he a good guy?

  Mitsuko Maki : Yes. Where does he work?

  Kenji Shirai : He's like an underling for a big shot in the area.

  Mitsuko Maki : An underling?

  Kenji Shirai : To be frank, he's a yakuza. He had no luck finding a job either and ended up like that.

• Kenji Shirai : I'm looking for a gig too. A friend told me about this place. This is my third night.

  Unemployed pianist : Have you had any luck?

  Kenji Shirai : No. But I'm sure I'll get hired if I'm given a chance to play. I just don't get the chance.

  Unemployed pianist : I see. You're young. Waiting around to get picked up like a hooker must be hard for you. I've gotten used to it by now. It doesn't bother me much.

  Kenji Shirai : If I don't get a gig tonight, I plan to sell my sax and hang it up.

• Kenji Shirai : A few hours ago, I was feeling really down too. I was ready to chuck it all. Inside this case is my saxophone. It belonged to my late brother. Lately, I was beginning to think that it was ruining my life. Nobody was interested in my playing. I was giving up hope that somebody would recognize my sound. Then finally tonight, a door opened for me. I'm actually happy right now. Do you think that's strange?

• Mitsuko Maki : We'll never meet again?

  Kenji Shirai : We can find each other at work.

  Mitsuko Maki : True. We'll be in the public eye, on stage in the bright lights. It might be a very dark place.

• Kenji Shirai : I felt horrible for you.

  Mitsuko Maki : You sympathize with me?

  Kenji Shirai : I'm powerless to help you. Sympathy won't do any good. When reality hits me like this, I feel the world is a cruel place.

• Murata : That girl is going to dance nude? The world works in mysterious ways.

  Kenji Shirai : Yeah.

  Murata : She might actually be pretty ravishing.

• Kenji Shirai : Remember I once told you how I felt the world was a cruel place? I think I'm beginning to understand what the feeling means. People out there have no respect for others. It's like they're simply making offerings at some huge alter. They watch the offerings burn in the red flames at the altar, and they take pleasure in it.

  Mitsuko Maki : I don't understand.

  Kenji Shirai : You'll understand someday that we are the offerings.

  Mitsuko Maki : What sort of offering am I?

• Kenji Shirai : I can't forget your face on the night we first met. I've seen and heard about men and women falling in love and breaking up. But I've never seen anybody so in love that she could cry in front of a stranger.

• Kenji Shirai : I came to ask your help finding her a job rather than me.

  Eiko Yoshinaga : You've got a lot of cheek. We just met last night.

  Mitsuko Maki : I'll leave.

  Eiko Yoshinaga : I was just kidding. You don't have to go. Isn't it bad manners to ask me to help out a pretty girl like her?