- Kingo Gondo: Why should you and I hate each other?
- Ginjirô Takeuchi, medical intern: I don't know. I'm not interested in self-analysis. I do know my room was so cold in winter and so hot in summer I couldn't sleep. Your house looked like heaven, high up there. That's how I began to hate you.
- [last lines]
- Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern: You think I'm shaking out of fear, but I'm not! It's just the physiological reaction from being in solitary too long. Just leaving the cell makes me shake. I'm not afraid of death. I don't care if I go to hell. My life has been hell since the day I was born.
- [laughs]
- Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern: But if I had to go to heaven, then I'd really start to tremble.
- [laughs]
- Ginjirô Takeuchi, medical intern: ...Besides, it's amusing to make fortunate men taste the same misery as the unfortunate.
- Reiko Gondo: Success isn't worth losing your humanity.
- Kingo Gondo: A woman can't understand. This isn't about wanting to become president. I just want to make shoes my way.
- Chief Detective Tokura: That Gondo is all right.
- Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi: Usually I waste no love on the rich. I didn't like him at first.
- Ginjirô Takeuchi, medical intern: Taking the wrong boy was a lucky break. Did you know Mr. Gondo that it's only extortion when you threaten a person or his kin? In other words, this doesn't count. But you have to pay anyway. You're a fool to pay, but pay you must.
- Kawanishi - Gondo's Secretary: I know how much this money means to you, but a human life means more.
- Chief Detective Tokura: Mr. Gondo, I know it's late to be saying this... but you have the right to protect your own livelihood. It's our duty to help you. We want to save the child, but not by sacrificing you.
- Reiko Gondo: What just happened?
- Kingo Gondo: Nothing.
- Reiko Gondo: It certainly didn't look that way.
- Kingo Gondo: Don't worry. You wouldn't understand. It's business.
- Reiko Gondo: You always say that to keep me quiet.
- Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director: Women see shoes as accessories, like hats and handbags. They flock to stylish designs at affordable prices.