Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

Yoshiaki Umegaki: Hana

Quotes 

• Hana : I am a mistake made by God. In my heart, I am a woman.

  Gin : Women can have children.

  Hana : What if a miracle like the Virgin Mary getting pregnant... was to happen to a homo?

  [to soup kitchen server] 

  Hana : Better give me a little extra. I'm eating for two.

• Hana : Being able to speak freely is the lifeblood of love. Maybe l'm naive.

• Gin : [Gin throws a book from the garbage dump at Miyuki and hits her in the face] 

  Hana : What are you doing to Dostoyevski?

• Miyuki : God must be busy at this time of year.

  Hana : Better once a year than never.

• Hana : All he thinks about is himself.

  Miyuki : Yeah, Miss Hana, but you're in love with him, aren't you?

  Hana : Don't be silly. I like my men to be more 'manly.'

  Hana : [leaning towards the cab driver]  My kind of man is slender, middle-aged, tan, with a divine square-back haircut and a lower town accent, who says 'Ah what the hell' when I don't quite have the cab fare.

  [grins] 

• Hana : Which way?

  Gin : Left!

  Hana : Okay, right!

  Gin : Why?

  Hana : You're a lousy gambler!

  Gin : You got that right!

• Miyuki : Eat shit, you old fart.

  Hana : "Shit" I'll take, but "fart" I won't!

• Hana : [haiku]  On the year's last day / when all of a life's accounts / have been settled up.

• Hana : Oh, cheer up! Let's sing a song...

  Hana : [singing in English]  Climb every mountain/...

  Miyuki : What the hell's that?

  Hana : "The Sound of Music," of course!

  Miyuki : Never heard of it.

  Hana : [sings]  Climb every mountain/ Ford every stream...

  Gin : That's going to make you even hungrier.

  Hana : Follow every rainbow/ till... you... find... your... dream...

• Hana : This is a Christmas present from God! She's our baby!

• Hana : I'm starving!

  Gin : I told you!

  Hana : Look after my little angel. Go on without me. Just say you'll never forget the queer you once knew.

  Miyuki : Look, a cemetery.

  Hana : I'm not dead yet!

• Hana : You really are the lowest of the low! The best thing you'll ever do is die in the gutter! Oh, poor you! You'll be dead and no one'll care! All you ever do is cause people trouble - dead or alive, you're living trash! The king of trash!

  Gin : Okay, so I'm trash, but you're ugly!

• Hana : Since Ken died I'm like a canary... that's forgotten it's song.

  Miyuki : You sing all the time!

  Mother : So, Ken died did he?

  [whispering] 

  Mother : AIDS?

  Hana : He slipped on the soap.

  Mother : Well, death is always a hair's breadth away.

• Hana : Miyuki! Close your legs! Act like you were a woman!

  Miyuki : I am a woman.

• Hana : Dreams do come true. I always dreamed of being the mother of a little girl. A nice, warm house, a pretty daughter. Even if my husband was no good... I would accept dire poverty as long as I had my child.

  Gin : Feed the poor kid!

• Hana : If you like the police so much, get THEM to adopt you!

• Hana : Go for it, Gin! No action star can touch you!

• Hana : [haiku]  My mother's white breath / as she watches me set out / on a long journey.

• Gin : You peep pretty loud for a chick that can't even find its own worms.

  Miyuki : Should a burden on society like you be talking?

  Gin : You're a burden on us- what does that make you?

  Miyuki : The kettle the pot's calling black.

  Gin : You mouthy brat!

  Hana : Can't you at least get along on Christmas?

• Hana : I am a mistake made by God.In my heart, I am a woman. Women can have children. What if a miracle like the Virgin Mary getting pregnant... was to happen to a homo? Better give me a little extra. After all, l"m eating for two.