Sayonara (1957)

Red Buttons: Joe Kelly

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• Hana-ogi : [watching a traditional Japanese puppet performance about two doomed lovers]  It is custom for lovers to die together when they can no longer face life.

  Katsumi : [dreamily]  It is so beautiful.

  Joe Kelly : "Beautiful"? They're gonna' die, aren't they?

  Katsumi : [dreamily]  They will live in another world, on a beautiful lake, floating always together - like water lily.

  Joe Kelly : Sure.

• Joe Kelly : [Major Gruver is entering Joe Kelly's Japanese home for the first time]  Hey, off with the shoes. You don't wear shoes in a Japanese house.

  Major Gruver : Okay, comin' off... What about the pants?

• Joe Kelly : Boy, she sure does something wicked to a bathing suit.

  Major Gruver : She has an enormous capacity to fulfill a bathing suit.

  Joe Kelly : l can see that.

• Joe Kelly : Generals for the officers, congressmen for the peasants.

• Joe Kelly : She says that Hana-ogi will not speak to an American.

  Major Gruver : Well, why not?

  Joe Kelly : We shot her brother and killed her father with our bombs.

  Major Gruver : Oh, shoot. l didn't do it.

  Captain Bailey : Sure you did, Ace. We all did.

• Joe Kelly : How about playing poker with Katsumi and me?

  Major Gruver : Oh, l'll be delighted to take your money *and* your pants.

• Joe Kelly : [Katsumi giving Joe a bath]  Just a little lower. I little lower, Katsumi. You always seem to be a little above it. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• Joe Kelly : Is Hana-ogi coming over tonight?

  Major Gruver : Yeah, if she can get away. We're going to cook up some fine St. Louis goulash - with a little Memphis greens in there.

• Joe Kelly : Hana-ogi, will you tell that stupid dame l love her the way she is? l don't want her changed! Will you tell her l love her mouth and her nose and her ears and her eyes *just* the way they are?