Genya Tachibana Quotes in Millennium Actress (2001)

Kyoji Ida: Don't get your hopes up. She must be over 70 now.

Genya Tachibana: She'll never grow old!

Kyoji Ida: Leaving work behind? That's inappropriate!

Genya Tachibana: You don't understand women

Kyoji Ida: You do?

Kyoji Ida: [Chiyoko reads the newspaper from a man besides her. There's a headline about a clash in Manchuria] But he's a lucky guy, if she follows him to a place so far.

Genya Tachibana: I would like to be him!

Kyoji Ida: [the location is changed to the bombing of Tokyo in the 40's] Is this a Sci-Fi Movie?

Genya Tachibana: You IDIOT!

Kyoji Ida: The crazy old biddy! Hiding herself away like she's some kind of hermit!

[Genya slams a bag into his face]

Genya Tachibana: Next time I kill you.

Genya Tachibana: [while they see to the Young Chiyoko Running away] Isn't she a sweetie girl?

Kyoji Ida: Even the old people were once young

Kyoji Ida: [while Kyoji and Genya are watching Chiyoko crying at the train station] Man, this is dramatic...

[Koyi surprises when he sees a crying Genya]

Genya Tachibana: [Crying] I cried fifty-three times in this scene!

Kyoji Ida: When did this become a movie?

Genya Tachibana: [Dressed and acting like a wandering medieval samurai] I always think that I would die for the woman I love.

Kyoji Ida: Maybe I will shoot him

Kyoji Ida: [Noticing that time and location have changed] Now we are in Kyoto! This is going faster than bullet train! This is the Edo period

Genya Tachibana: [appears visibly battered and badly wounded] Hey, Where is Chiyoko?

Kyoji Ida: Aren't you going to change clothes for this age?

Junichi Ootaki: Chiyoko, a film director is like a painter, a painter puts the colors as he wants on the canvas. And I found a great color for my canvas, This color is you.

Genya Tachibana: [growling] Does he seduce her with a line like that?

Kyoji Ida: [while he's filming to Ootaki and Chiyoko] I should try that line.

Junichi Ootaki: [while he sees to Young Genya getting in to the Set] Hey, Don't stay there! Go and find it!

Genya Tachibana, Genya: Yes sir!

Genya: [He looks to Junichi] Eh... What are we looking for?

Genya Tachibana, Junichi Ootaki: [Genya screams to his young self] The Chiyoko's damn Key!

Genya Tachibana: [a big truck stops in front of Chiyoko, Genya appears dressed and acting like a 60's truck driver] Hey miss, Don't you look when you walk around here?... Come in!

Kyoji Ida: This role of savior makes you happy, huh?

Chiyoko Fujiwara: My lord!

[Approaches the body of the lord]

Chiyoko Fujiwara: Why don't you wait for me?

Genya Tachibana: [trying to mourn] I...

Kyoji Ida: Do you cried in all her movies?

Genya Tachibana: [Chiyoko recovers from a fainting] Are you okay?, Do you feel sick?

Chiyoko Fujiwara: [after taking a few medications] Never listen to doctors, they always think that old people are sick.