Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Takeshi Kitano: Hara
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[last lines]
Sgt. Gengo Hara : Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence!
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Col. John Lawrence : So Sergeant Hara you're human after all.
Sgt. Gengo Hara : Lawrence-san! Do you know Father Christmas?
Maj. Jack Celliers : What's he saying to us?
Col. John Lawrence : Yes Hara-san. Father Christmas means Santa Claus.
Sgt. Gengo Hara : [laughs] Tonight I'm Father Christmas. I'm Father Christmas! Father Christmas!
Col. John Lawrence : He thinks he's Santa Claus. Father. Father. Father Christmas.
Sgt. Gengo Hara : [laughs] Father Christmas!
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[first lines]
Sgt. Gengo Hara : [in Japanese] Wake up, Lawrence.
Col. John Lawrence : [in Japanese] What is it? Why so early, Sergeant Hara?
Sgt. Gengo Hara : [in Japanese] Hurry up!
Group Capt. Hicksley : What does he want?
Col. John Lawrence : [in English] I'll find out?
Sgt. Gengo Hara : [in Japanese] What?
Group Capt. Hicksley : You don't have to take orders from this man, you know, Lawrence.
Col. John Lawrence : Well, I'm the liaison officer, so I'm liaising.
Sgt. Gengo Hara : [in Japanese] What did he say?
Group Capt. Hicksley : You're sure you know what you're doing, old man?
Col. John Lawrence : Yes, and whatever this is, it's important to him that I see it.
[in Japanese]
Col. John Lawrence : Let's go, Sergeant.
Sgt. Gengo Hara : [in Japanese] You don't understand. Only Lawrence understands.
POW : I'll keep an eye on them, sir.
Group Capt. Hicksley : Very good.
Group Capt. Hicksley : [Sgt. Hara whacks the POW on the head with a bamboo cane. The POW collapses in pain and blood spills from his injury] Bastards!
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Sgt. Gengo Hara : Lawrence, don't interrupt my nap.
Col. John Lawrence : I'm sorry.
Sgt. Gengo Hara : I dreamed I was in Manchuria, settling in on top of Marlene Dietrich.
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Sgt. Gengo Hara : You're all afraid of queers, aren't you? Samurai aren't afraid of queers.
Col. John Lawrence : War strengthens bonds of friendship between men, but that doesn't mean all soldiers turn queer.
Sgt. Gengo Hara : You're not genuine soldiers. You're lowly POWs. That's why you lack discipline and beg me for favors. You should be ashamed.
Col. John Lawrence : Sergeant Hara, I have nothing to be ashamed of.
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Sgt. Gengo Hara : Do you remember that Christmas?
Col. John Lawrence : Yes. Yes. Yes.
Sgt. Gengo Hara : It was a good Christmas, wasn't it?
Col. John Lawrence : It was a wonderful Christmas. You were drunk.
Sgt. Gengo Hara : May I go on and on being drunk!
Col. John Lawrence : Sake is wonderful.
Sgt. Gengo Hara : Thank you. Father Christmas. Thank you.
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Sgt. Gengo Hara : I get it. You think they'll all want to bugger him. So, it's true: all Englishmen are queer.
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Sgt. Gengo Hara : Lawrence, why are you still alive? I'd admire you more if you killed yourself. How can a fine officer like you stand such shame?
Col. John Lawrence : We don't consider it shameful. Being taken prisoner is a matter of chance. Of course, we don't enjoy being prisoners. We want to escape. We want to go on fighting you.
Sgt. Gengo Hara : Don't lie. Those are just excuses.
Col. John Lawrence : It's true! We want to win the war! For us, this camp isn't the end. We won't kill ourselves. That's cowardly.
Sgt. Gengo Hara : You're just scared of dying! I'm not!
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Yonoi : As punishment for today, you're confined to quarters until your departure.
Sgt. Gengo Hara : Yes.
Yonoi : Without sake.