- Shingo Ogata: My mind is getting very foggy these days. Even when I look at a sunflower, it reminds me of what's in my head. If only what's in my head were as grand as that sunflower. I wish there was a way to take it off and have it cleaned or repaired. That's what I was thinking on the way home.
- Kikuko Ogata: [laughs] Oh, father-in-law.
- Shingo Ogata: Just take off my head and take it to the hospital like taking laundry to the cleaners.
- Kikuko Ogata: That's very funny.
- Shingo Ogata: In other words, while the mind is getting cleaned or repaired, the body will rest in the meantime.
- Kikuko Ogata: You're too much, father-in-law.
- Shingo Ogata: The body will have a good rest, without even dreaming.
- Fusako Aihara: What do you think, Father? You're busy reading the newspaper. Nobody really cares about my troubles.
- Shingo Ogata: I don't know what to say. From the outside, you can never tell what's really going on in a marriage.
- Shingo Ogata: What faults do you find in Kikuko to cheat on her like that? I don't get it.
- Shuichi Ogata: It's like the difference between a lake and a fast current.
- Shingo no yuujin: Not a bad way to go. I wouldn't mind that myself. To die suddenly during a tryst with a young woman at a hot spring.
- [last lines]
- Shingo Ogata: This place makes one feel relaxed.
- Kikuko Ogata: The vista was designed to give an impression of great depth.
- Shingo Ogata: What is a "vista"?
- Kikuko Ogata: It means an open prospect.
- Fusako Aihara: I'll deal with it myself.
- Shingo Ogata: Don't just blame others and think it through carefully.
- Fusako Aihara: I must not be attractive enough to keep my husband's attention. He's unfaithful to me.
- Hideko Tanizaki: She brings a companion too.
- Shingo Ogata: Really? A man?
- Hideko Tanizaki: No, a woman friend of hers.
- Shingo Ogata: I'm relieved to hear that. I thought swapping partners was in style.
- Shingo Ogata: Is she young?
- Hideko Tanizaki: Perhaps younger than his wife.
- Shingo Ogata: Is she beautiful?
- Hideko Tanizaki: Yes, she is. But her voice sounds as if she has a cold. Your son finds it erotic.
- Yasuko Tsuma: Let's go to sleep. They must be wondering what's keeping us up so late.
- Shingo Ogata: I'd wonder about that myself.
- Yasuko Tsuma: You don't understand how women feel. Women deal with sorrow differently from men.
- Shingo Ogata: You can't speak for all women just because you're a woman.
- Yasuko Tsuma: Father was just saying what sort of will we should write if he and I were to commit a double suicide.
- Shingo Ogata: When I heard your cheerful voice on the phone, I was relieved. I realized that's the true quality of your voice. That's how your voice truly sounds.