Kon'na koi no hanashi (1997– )

Kôji Tamaki: Konosuke Shimodaira

Quotes 

• [about Harashima] 

  Mayako Mizukoshi : He never shares anything with me. What does he laugh like? I've never even heard him laugh.

  Konosuke Shimodaira : Don't worry about that! He's just acting cool in front of his beloved!

  Mayako Mizukoshi : Beloved? He's in love with Kaori, not me.

  Konosuke Shimodaira : You're blunt.

  Mayako Mizukoshi : I'm honest.

• [after factory inspection] 

  Misao Fujimura : [to Konosuke]  You're such an idiot!

  Sensei : A hopeless idiot!

  Konosuke Shimodaira : Eh? Ha! You're just jealous 'cos they gave me the special treatment.

  Misao Fujimura : They have a motive: to close down the factory!

  Konosuke Shimodaira : Eh? Didn't seem that way to me, they seemed to be nice! Anyway, even if it's true we have our rights as laborers.

  Sensei : If, as a matter of, when they find a fault, they'll close us down!

  Misao Fujimura : He's right, they're taking advantage of our faults.

  Norihiko Nakahata : And Konosuke is fault itself.

  Konosuke Shimodaira : What? So, so you mean *that* was the reason they gave me the special treatment back there?

  Misao Fujimura : Finally got it, eh?

  [Konosuke laughs hysterically] 

  Konosuke Shimodaira : [Seriously]  How dare he...

• Konosuke Shimodaira : God played a cruel trick, and I think he enjoyed it!

• [to Harashima] 

  Konosuke Shimodaira : What man treats the woman he loves like whore? Is it because she's poor, do you think she went with you for your money? Rubbish... Hey I maybe poor and my friends and Kaori maybe poor too, but she has had a much richer life then you have had. You say love will only get you hurt. Kaori's been in love, been hurt... But she's still cheerful! I'll tell you something, being poor is just a state of mind, but if you respect the three wells of my logic - Trust, friendship and love - then I truly am a rich person.

  [pauses] 

  Konosuke Shimodaira : I don't need money, and Kaori doesn't need your money. She's a very rich woman, she loves you, she's your friend and until now she trusted you. You don't deserve your love. *You* sir, are the *poor* man. *I* am the rich one!

• Konosuke Shimodaira : One more thing, don't ever speak to or go near Kaori again. If you were to see you now, it would destroy her. Just so you know, she's still very much in love with you.

  [Konosuke turns and leaves leaving Harashima shocked and upset] 

• [upon finding that the "gardener is in fact Harashima] 

  Konosuke Shimodaira : You know, you look exactly like my friend. He treasures his broken watch from his father. When I first met him, he lent me 30 yen. He even lent my friend 2.5 million yen. He has neurogastric illness and debts. He likes to be logical. He a strange one. But... he's a gardener. The man I know... Isn't you.

• Konosuke Shimodaira : Do you know why I'm here? I came to punch you.

  [Konosuke walks over to Harashima and stops in front of him. They look at each other. Konosuke laughs] 

  Konosuke Shimodaira : I came here to punch Shuichiro Harashima; not you.

• [after finding out that money had been sent to Kaori in Harashima's name] 

  Konosuke Shimodaira : Haven't you hurt Kaori enough? She's seriously in love with you. When she found out the money was from you, she felt so cheap. She was given the dirtiest thing in the world from the man she loved!

• Konosuke Shimodaira : Sorry I hit you over the Kaori incident.

  Shuichiro Harashima : You told me not to come again... But I had something to tell her. I had fun with her... When I'm with her, I forgot about my illness. When I came to this place and watched her, I felt I could be someone different.

• [about the money given to Kaori] 

  Konosuke Shimodaira : Kaori loves you more then you could possibly imagine and I know you feel the same, I know you do. But you send her money? That's shocked her. It's shocked me. Kaori was treated like a whore, by the man she loved!