Gen Nakaoka Quotes in Hadashi no Gen (1983)

Gen Nakaoka: Isn't that terrible, Father? Grown men fighting over a bowl of soup.

Shinji Nakaoka: If they're going to fight, it should be over some fish.

Gen Nakaoka: It's probably just another spy plane. They'll never bomb us, we're too boring.

Gen Nakaoka: Hey, this baby doesn't look like me. It's a girl, Mother, but it really looks like a monkey.

Kimie Nakaoka: All babies do, you did too.

Gen Nakaoka: [after the bomb] It's raining. Stop it, stop it! What? That's not right. Mother, have you ever seen rain that's black like this?

Eiko: You know this is supposed to be for mother.

Gen Nakaoka: What do you mean for her?

Shinji Nakaoka: Why'd she give it to us then?

Eiko: Oh she was just being nice. You know Mother needs to be strong for the baby that's coming. So if you eat this potato, the baby will die. Now, do you both still say you want it?

Kimie Nakaoka: Eiko, go on, it's alright dear, let your brothers have it.

Eiko: But Mother, it's not fair, the baby needs more than they do. Here you take it, please, eat it for the baby.

Gen Nakaoka: I'd like to know if we'll ever have enough food. Will we?

Daikichi Nakaoka: Yes, son, when the war is over.

Gen Nakaoka: When will it be over?

Daikichi Nakaoka: It won't be long. Japan has all but lost the war.

Gen Nakaoka: Why do we keep on fighting if we've lost the war?

Daikichi Nakaoka: Why? Because our government is run by madmen. They're just crazy, stupid... all of them.

Gen Nakaoka: Hey! How'd I end up here? Guess they decided to bomb us after all.

Gen Nakaoka: [crying] Oh why aren't you here, Father? Shinji? She's the prettiest baby girl in the whole world, and you never saw her.

Daikichi Nakaoka: I don't have any milk.

Gen Nakaoka: That's bad, Mother, babies need milk to live.

Daikichi Nakaoka: We've eaten nothing for 3 days and my milk has dried up. When mothers go hungry, their babies go hungry too. I really must try to find some food, for her sake.

Gen Nakaoka: Those soldiers are mean, they're just treating those people like bags of trash. It's almost like they never lived at all. Maybe this is what hell's like.

Doctor: Slow down boys, slow down, I'll die of a heart attack before we get there.

Gen Nakaoka: You should've thought of that before you got so fat.

Shinji Nakaoka: Our mother's sick, and if you don't make her better, you'll be sorry.