The Outsider Quote
Kiyoshi: She's 28 years old. She can meet whoever she wants, marry whoever she wants.
Nick Lowell: But not me.
Kiyoshi: Not Yakuza. The people here, they cannot love anyone. You understand?
Nick Lowell: What if I promised you she'd be safe with me?
Kiyoshi: What if I told you that before the war, four men killed Akihiro's wife and his son? Akihiro found them and for three days, he kept them alive, begging for their deaths, their mothers, while he cut off everything that identified them as human beings. Yakuza can never have that. To become a Yakuza is a choice. You trade one type of family for another. You can never go back.
Nick Lowell: So why does she work for you?
Kiyoshi: So I can watch her, keep her safe. I have many brothers, but only one sister. She was a virgin.
Nick Lowell: I don't think so.
Kiyoshi: [long pause]Don't see my sister. Congratulations. Now we are real brothers.
Nick Lowell: But not me.
Kiyoshi: Not Yakuza. The people here, they cannot love anyone. You understand?
Nick Lowell: What if I promised you she'd be safe with me?
Kiyoshi: What if I told you that before the war, four men killed Akihiro's wife and his son? Akihiro found them and for three days, he kept them alive, begging for their deaths, their mothers, while he cut off everything that identified them as human beings. Yakuza can never have that. To become a Yakuza is a choice. You trade one type of family for another. You can never go back.
Nick Lowell: So why does she work for you?
Kiyoshi: So I can watch her, keep her safe. I have many brothers, but only one sister. She was a virgin.
Nick Lowell: I don't think so.
Kiyoshi: [long pause]Don't see my sister. Congratulations. Now we are real brothers.
Movie: The Outsider
