Millennium Actress (2001)

Masaya Onosaka: Kyoji Ida

Quotes 

• Kyoji Ida : Don't get your hopes up. She must be over 70 now.

  Genya Tachibana : She'll never grow old!

• Kyoji Ida : [the location is changed to the bombing of Tokyo in the 40's]  Is this a Sci-Fi Movie?

  Genya Tachibana : You IDIOT!

• Kyoji Ida : [Chiyoko changes from feudal princess, to a ninja Warrior]  A princess could do that?

• Genya Tachibana : [while they see to the Young Chiyoko Running away]  Isn't she a sweetie girl?

  Kyoji Ida : Even the old people were once young

• Genya Tachibana : [a big truck stops in front of Chiyoko, Genya appears dressed and acting like a 60's truck driver]  Hey miss, Don't you look when you walk around here?... Come in!

  Kyoji Ida : This role of savior makes you happy, huh?

• Kyoji Ida : The crazy old biddy! Hiding herself away like she's some kind of hermit!

  [Genya slams a bag into his face] 

  Genya Tachibana : Next time I kill you.

• Junichi Ootaki : Chiyoko, a film director is like a painter, a painter puts the colors as he wants on the canvas. And I found a great color for my canvas, This color is you.

  Genya Tachibana : [growling]  Does he seduce her with a line like that?

  Kyoji Ida : [while he's filming to Ootaki and Chiyoko]  I should try that line.

• Kyoji Ida : [Noticing that time and location have changed]  Now we are in Kyoto! This is going faster than bullet train! This is the Edo period

  Genya Tachibana : [appears visibly battered and badly wounded]  Hey, Where is Chiyoko?

  Kyoji Ida : Aren't you going to change clothes for this age?

• Kyoji Ida : [while Kyoji and Genya are watching Chiyoko crying at the train station]  Man, this is dramatic...

  [Koyi surprises when he sees a crying Genya] 

  Genya Tachibana : [Crying]  I cried fifty-three times in this scene!

  Kyoji Ida : When did this become a movie?

• Genya Tachibana : [Dressed and acting like a wandering medieval samurai]  I always think that I would die for the woman I love.

  Kyoji Ida : Maybe I will shoot him

• Kyoji Ida : Leaving work behind? That's inappropriate!

  Genya Tachibana : You don't understand women

  Kyoji Ida : You do?

  Kyoji Ida : [Chiyoko reads the newspaper from a man besides her. There's a headline about a clash in Manchuria]  But he's a lucky guy, if she follows him to a place so far.

  Genya Tachibana : I would like to be him!

• Chiyoko Fujiwara : [the action changes to a Japanese feudal castle in flames and Chiyoko appears dressed as a Japanese feudal princess]  What is going on?

  Kyoji Ida : [Looking around]  That's what I wanna know! Where are the bandits?, Where's Manchuria?

• Chiyoko Fujiwara : My lord!

  [Approaches the body of the lord] 

  Chiyoko Fujiwara : Why don't you wait for me?

  Genya Tachibana : [trying to mourn]  I...

  Kyoji Ida : Do you cried in all her movies?

• Kyoji Ida : [By getting through a group of people at the back of a photograph. Kyoji realizes that among the shadows of the people appears a young man with a very familiar face. Kyoji stops to see him up close]  . Hey boss, is that you?