Taketoshi Naitô: Tange Ittôhei
Quotes
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Kaji : Maybe what you're doing is right and I'm wrong.
Tange Ittôhei : Who knows? No one can say.
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Tange Ittôhei : I hope democratic forces will unite to cope with this defeat.
Kaji : Democratic forces? Is there such a thing in Japan? Japan's full of helpless creatures like myself - or worse. They can do nothing.
Tange Ittôhei : Why so bitter? The test is yet to come.
Kaji : That's not the point. We became soldiers - and fought in battle. We were wiped out, and now we plod along. We killed and we deserted our buddies. "Cope with defeat," you say. How many of us are even capable or worthy of that?
Tange Ittôhei : That's enough. Even your ideals seem starved.
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Tange Ittôhei : You've sure changed.
Kaji : When it's kill or be killed, you change.
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Kaji : Let's call the men and get out of here.
Tange Ittôhei : It's dangerous wherever we go. Why not relax the reins a bit?
Kaji : Am I too hard on them?
Tange Ittôhei : You're not satisfied until you've dragged everyone else up to your own level. Of course, that's probably why you're alive today.
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Kaji : They seem smug and selfish to me.
Tange Ittôhei : That can't be helped. The present stage calls for a Soviet-first policy.
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Kitagô Sôchô : Quit your meddling and get off this hill. Our men are raring to go.
Tange Ittôhei : Let them try. We'll see how disciplined they are. Guerrillas! You're a band of mountain bandits!
Kitagô Sôchô : And in good bandit fashion, I'll lop your head off!
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Tange Ittôhei : Of course there must be scoundrels in the Red Army too. A handful among the millions. A few dozen or a few hundred like that don't undermine the theory of the Red... no... the People's Army. A flaw of the transition period that will surely be corrected.
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Tange Ittôhei : We may be paying dearly for our worthless freedom.
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Tange Ittôhei : Their militia seems to indicate that the war must be over.
Kaji : If so, they'd announce it and urge us to surrender. Would they just come after us?
Tange Ittôhei : Would you surrender?
Kaji : No.
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Kaji : From here on... I quit running and start fighting. They can kill you and me if they want. But why civilians? And a woman?
Tange Ittôhei : They're on edge just like us.
Kaji : You think that's an excuse? That kind of thinking justifies anything.
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Tange Ittôhei : It's strange you should fear Siberia. If you can't survive it, no one can.
Kaji : They can send us to Siberia and work us to death. But take down the 'peace' and 'liberation' signs. Listen to me. Exploit our labor and then try to reeducate us... that shouldn't be the Soviet way. I'm not complaining about too much work. I can even understand the short rations. Their guards even sleep on the ground like us. What I'm saying... is that most POWs are not enemies in the class struggle.
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Kaji : Really? It can't be helped? Is that the universal solution to human dilemmas: 'It can't be helped'?
Tange Ittôhei : History will correct that... not you or me.
