An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

Daisuke Katô: Yoshitaro Sakamoto

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Quotes 

• [English subtitled version] 

  Yoshitaro Sakamoto : If Japan had won the war, how would things be?

  Shuhei Hirayama : I wonder.

  Yoshitaro Sakamoto : More whiskey! Bring us the whole bottle. If we'd won, we'd both be in New York now. New York. And not just a pachinko parlor called New York. The real thing!

  Shuhei Hirayama : Think so?

  Yoshitaro Sakamoto : Absolutely. Because we lost, our kids dance around and shake their rumps to American records. But if we had won, the blue-eyed ones would have chignon hairdos and chew gum while plunking tunes on the shamisen.

  Shuhei Hirayama : But I think it's good we lost.

  Yoshitaro Sakamoto : You think? Yeah, maybe you're right. The dumb militarists can't bully us anymore.

• [English subtitled version] 

  Yoshitaro Sakamoto : Sir, how come we lost the war?

  Shuhei Hirayama : Good question.