Gen Quotes in Hadashi no Gen (1983)

Gen: You can hit me again, sir, really, you can hit me as much as you want, go on, but just, let us keep the fish when you're done, please sir.

Shinji: That's right, you can hit me as much as you want too, but give us the fish. Go on, I'm ready.

Old Man: Will you tell me why you boys want that blasted carp?

Gen: It's for our mother, sir, she's going to have a baby and she's not very well.

Shinji: And our neighbor Mr. Pak said carp blood is the only thing that will help.

Gen: Without it my mother will get worse sir, even...

Shinji: She could die! Now you wouldn't want my mother to die, would you?

Gen: [sobbing] Oh please, help us.

Shinji: Please save her!

Gen: You won't! Oh no!

Shinji: You're mean and heartless! Her ghost will come back and haunt you TILL YOU DIE!

[sobs]

Old Man: How did the old saying go? Be good to your parents while you can. Very well, keep it.

[the boys look up at him in awe]

Old Man: Look, I'm giving you the damn fish. Now go.

Gen: You mean it?

Shinji: Remember if you lie, old man, you'll go straight to hell!

Old Man: Funny, I was just about to say the same thing to you two.

Gen: Hey, somebody should look at this soldier, he's hurt real bad I think.

Doctor: [sighs] Another one. Young man, do you know if he was vomiting blood or complaining that he was cold?

Gen: Right!

[relieved]

Gen: Ah, then I guess that means you know what's wrong then.

Doctor: No use looking at this one, this soldier's dead. God help us, is it possible that one bomb could've created all this devastation?

Seijo: You idiot!

[kicks Gen]

Gen: WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?

Seijo: What were you trying to do, tear my skin off?

Gen: I try to be careful but those maggots keep getting stuck to the scabs like they've been glued on!

Seijo: I don't want to hear it!

[kicks Gen again]

Seijo: You'll just have to be MORE careful, you little BUZZARD!

Gen: LISTEN HERE!

Ryuta: You think anyone will stop me if I wring his neck?

[rolls up sleeve]

Gen: Take that!

[slaps Seijo]

Gen: And that!

[again]

Gen: You're just a spoiled brat, even if you are a grownup.

Ryuta: Now I know why they stuck you out here by yourself.

Gen: We're leaving!

Ryuta: Yeah, we quit!

Seijo: Ryuta, Gen

Gen: Calling us by our names won't help, it's too late!

[sees tears forming in Seijo's eye, calms down]

Gen: I'm sorry I hit you.

Seijo: No, no, I'm glad that you did.

Gen: Come on, you like bieng slapped around?

Ryuta: Huh, that's kind of weird.

Gen: You want to slap him this time?

Ryuta: My pleasure!

Seijo: That's right, that's right, hit me, I won't mind.

Gen: Wait a minute! It's not normal to want to be hit!

Seijo: When you've gone without human contact as long as I have, you're grateful for anything, even a slap. It's funny how people change. My brother and his family used to enjoy my company before the bomb did this to me. Now they've all left me out here to die. My only visitors are the people my brother has paid to look after me, and none of them has ever lasted very long. You were the only ones to treat me as anything more than a freak or a corpse; you treated me like a human being, and for that I am grateful.

Shinji: Has anybody ever eaten a worm?

Gen: Eaten a worm?

Shinji: Yeah, like this caterpillar.

Gen: I don't know, why?

Shinji: If they won't make you sick, then Mother could eat them.

Gen: Hmmm...

[pictures Kimie eating a worm and turning into a caterpillar, bops Shinji on the head]

Gen: Idiot!

Gen: Shinji, what did you say to make Mother cry like that?

Shinji: Gee, all I did was ask if I could suck on the fish bones when she was done with them.

Gen: You're kidding, you asked her that?

Shinji: Yeah, that was it.

Gen: [hits Shinji on the head] Idiot!

[Gen notices the cast on Barbie's right foot]

Gen: What happened to you?

Barbie: I fell.

Gen: How many times?

Gen: We don't know shit!

Jorge: Well, you got about 10 seconds to make shit something you do know!