Shinji 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.

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!

Shinji: Masaru, do you think we're already finished?

Masaru: Hell no. We haven't even started.