Kimie Nakaoka Quotes in Hadashi no Gen (1983)

Kimie Nakaoka: [desperately looking for someone to feed her baby] Please, isn't there anybody who can help me with just a little milk? My baby's starving.

Kimie Nakaoka: Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, they've come against all the biggest cities and bombed them into ruins. It's serious, Gen, I won't have you making light of it.

Daikichi Nakaoka: There's one thing that bothers me. It's like you said, every major city around us has been bombed over and over again. But never Hiroshima.

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.

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.

Kimie Nakaoka: You know dear, it's a terrible thing having to watch your children go hungry. And what's worse nowadays there's hardly any food to be bought, even if we had the money.