The Last Samurai Quotes

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Zebulon Gant: [shouting loudly] Right, you little bastards! You will stand up straight or I will personally shit kick every far eastern buttock that appear before me eyes! Algren: Well done, sergeant. Zebulon Gant: When you understand the language, s...

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Taka: Japanese men do not help with this Algren: [grabs firewood basket] I am not Japanese

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Nobutada: [after Algren is defeated in fencing pratice] Please forgive; too many mind. Algren: [puzzeled] "Too many mind?" Nobutada: Hai, mind the sword, mind the people watch, mind enemy - -too many mind. [seriously] Nobutada: No mind. Algren: [pret...

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Algren: This is Katsumoto's sword. He would have wanted you to have it. He hoped with his dying breath that you would remember his ancestors who held this sword, and what they died for. May the strength of the Samurai be with you always.

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Algren: There is some comfort in the emptiness of the sea, no past, no future.

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Katsumoto: I have introduced myself. You have introduced yourself. This is a very good conversation.

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Nobutada: Father, let me stay. It is my time.

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Algren: How's your poem coming? Katsumoto: The end is proving difficult.

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Simon Graham: I came over with the British trade mission, oh, years ago. I was soon relieved of my position. I had a rather unfortunate tendency to tell the truth in a country where no one ever says what they mean. So now, I very accurately translate...

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Algren: What do you want? Katsumoto: To know my enemy. Algren: I've seen what you do to your enemies. Katsumoto: The warriors in your country do not kill? Algren: They don't cut the heads off defeated, kneeling men. Katsumoto: General Hasegawa asked ...

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Algren: Your highness... if you believe me to be your enemy, command me, and I will gladly take my life

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Katsumoto: The Emperor could not hear my words. His army will come. For nine hundred years, my ancestors have protected our people. Now... I have failed them. Algren: So you will take your own life? In shame? Shame for a life of service? Discipline? ...

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Algren: What else has she told you? Katsumoto: That you have nightmares. Algren: Every soldier has nightmares. Katsumoto: Only one who is ashamed of what he has done. Algren: You have no idea what I have done.

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Katsumoto: You do not have to die here. Algren: I should have died so many time before.

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[With his dying breath] Katsumoto: Perfect... They are all... perfect...

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Algren: [narrating] Spring, 1877. This marks the longest I've stayed in one place since I left the farm at 17. There is so much here I will never understand. I've never been a church going man, and what I've seen on the field of battle has led me to ...

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Algren: There is Life in every breath... Katsumoto: That is, Bushido.

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Algren: I have questions. Katsumoto: Questions come later.

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