Late Spring (1949)

Masao Mishima: Jo Onodera

Quotes 

• Jo Onodera : It's good she's finally marrying. She'll make a good wife, no doubt about it.

  Shukichi Somiya : Better to have a son, though. It's pointless to have a daughter. You raise them and then off they go. If they're unwed, you worry. Yet if they do marry, you feel let down.

  Jo Onodera : But didn't we marry other men's daughters?

  Shukichi Somiya : You have a point.

  [both laugh] 

• Jo Onodera : Which way is Tokyo?

  Shukichi Somiya : Tokyo, that way.

  Jo Onodera : So east is this direction?

  Shukichi Somiya : No, that direction.

  Jo Onodera : Has it always been that way?

  Shukichi Somiya : Absolutely.

  [they both laugh] 

• Jo Onodera : You're looking healthy and plump.

  Noriko Somiya : Really?

• Noriko Somiya : I'd find it distasteful.

  Jo Onodera : What's distasteful? My wife?

  Noriko Somiya : No. You!

  Jo Onodera : Why?

  Noriko Somiya : It seems - indecent.

  Jo Onodera : Indecent?

  Noriko Somiya : Filthy, actually.

  Jo Onodera : Filthy?

  [laughs] 

  Jo Onodera : How far I've fallen! Filthy, eh?