Solanin Inio Asano Quotes

Today is the first step of our new lives. ~ Inio Asano

We were like visitors to some strange planet. ~ Inio Asano

So, Kurt Cobain kills himself at 27 and becomes a legend. People like that are one in a million. I'm just a normal human being. I agonize and suffer, but I also laugh all the time. People all die someday and disappear as if they never existed, but that's natural. I though I wasn't afraid of dying. No, NOBODY is actually afraid of dying itself. The pain of suffering lasts for an instant. What truly agonizes me... Is the thought of your crying face from far far across the entire galaxy. You were always prettiest when you smiled. ~ Inio Asano

Besides... I'm very old and I can't remember things too well anymore. When my letters come back to me, it makes me feel like my wife still remembers me. ~ Inio Asano

Right now my life has an expiration date determined by my bank balance. Can I find something before my time is up? ~ Inio Asano

My face, body, lifestyle, I chose every aspect of myself with my own will. I don´t want to be ordered around by anyone anymore, and I have no need for a past. I´ve got dreams to fulfill, money to earn, love to find and success do achieve. They may be foolishly simplistic desire for some, but to me, working towards them bit by bit is how I build my confidence. ~ Inio Asano

I'm not some pure heart chasing after dreams. I know how difficult it is to live an ordinary life, having to overlook each other's shortcomings. ~ Inio Asano

If pretending to know was childish and pretending not to know was adult, then Punpun thought that he was still probably just a child. ~ Inio Asano

Standing there in the cold wind... I began to doubt if any of it had ever been real. God. The magic box. The talking butterfly. And if that were true, what an empty world this was. ~ Inio Asano

If only the last dozen years were just a dream my younger self was having, how wonderful that would be. ~ Inio Asano

the path your life is stuck on and be free

It's a dark whisper calling to me.

But I'm not brave enough to listen. I'm old enough to know I don't have any special talents. So no matter how depressing... I have to suck it up... And live the life I have. ~ Inio Asano

Have you ever, for even a second, thought about how hard it is for people like me just to stay alive? ~ Inio Asano

Isn't it better to regret things you've done, than regret things you've never even tried? ~ Inio Asano

In town, there's a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the summer.

I used to like walking there, looking for stuff.

Like old fireworks.

Or kelp.

A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind.

You basically never find what you were expecting to.

And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start... ~ Inio Asano

When I was little, people often misread the Kanji in my name as Mon-De... So the boys flipped it around and called me De-Mon, as in The Devil. Demons plague humanity, but I wasn't doing anything wrong. Ever since, I've been uncomfortable with how people cheerfully unite against perceived enemies". ~ Inio Asano

Uncle Yuichi: Something's moving up there? Hmm... I don't see anything. It was probably a satelite.

Punpun (with gums flapping): Could I have discovered a new planet?!

(long pause)

Yuichi: Yes! This could be a great discovery! If it really is a new planet... It'll be called Planet PunPun!

Punpun (slobbering again): Do you think I'll win the Nobel Prise?!

Yuichi: You sure are a greedy kid. ~ Inio Asano

... back then the sky seemed so vast.

And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, and heavy. ~ Inio Asano

The world is drowning in weirdness and lies ... and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored! ~ Inio Asano

I wondered if the Demon that whispered "Why not be free?" was Freedom itself. ~ Inio Asano

Nothing's going to change if you're just thinking about it. No matter how much you worry about someone else's problems.... you can't fix it for them. ~ Inio Asano

In our life there are moments when we have to move forward ... Regardless of how others may see us. Even if I make a mistake, I wont regret it! ~ Inio Asano

The love song I wrote that day... I got embarrassed and never sang it for her.

Oh yeah... I'll sing it to her when I go home.

I'll go home.

I'll hurry home. ~ Inio Asano

I'm a coward who can only open my heart to someone obviously inferior to me! ~ Inio Asano

Although Punpun didn't really want to think about what the point of having dreams that could never come true was… To have dreams and worries that you could talk frankly about… In a way, that was probably a more fulfilling lifestyle than his own, Punpun admitted. Being cool was merely a paper-thin difference away from being empty. ~ Inio Asano

This horde of rubes strolled into Tokyo thinking it holds hope and possibility!! They totally believe they're gonna be respectable human beings!! But in mere months, all these scumbags will run dry of confidence and hope and become broken wrecks whining incessantly on twitter!! ~ Inio Asano

I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body. ~ Inio Asano

To Punpun, the seemingly unmeaningful words, "See ya," spoken by Sachi were magical words that transformed the next day into a day worth living. ~ Inio Asano

Anyway, I think the two of you should be free to do whatever you want right now. When you're young, you think the only way to happiness is the hard road... but it's actually much simpler than that. ~ Inio Asano

...he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu. ~ Inio Asano

Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough. ~ Inio Asano

I love her so much I could bite her tongue off and kill her. ~ Inio Asano

Watching you guys makes me want to get my shit together... ~ Inio Asano

I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian. ~ Tadanobu Asano

There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for. ~ Tadanobu Asano

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid. ~ Tadanobu Asano

We are going to hell together. But we're coming back alive. Don't forget that. ~ Atsuko Asano