Solomon, it's time to stop feeling sorry for yourself. Enough. Whatever it takes, grab it all. Show them no mercy, because what mercy did they ever show us? Fuck them. Do it for me.

Hana

Solomon: Hana, are you scared?
Hana: I'm scared. I never dreamed it would end like this. Here, in this shitty room. But Hawaii -- that would've been a glorious death. My feet sinking into the warm sand, the sound of waves holding me close. But I guess it's all the same in the end. Death is death.

Hana: I need you to do something for me.
Solomon: Anything.
Hana: After I'm gone, take care of her for me... My mother.

Solomon: You sound like it doesn't matter. The money, the success.
Mozasu: That's not what I'm saying.
Solomon: I get it, but your dreams -- they're just not enough for me

Hansu: Would you really have done it? Would you have killed my father?
Ryoichi: For the sake of his honor, he had a debt to pay. But the death he got...

Hansu's father: You're going. That's final.
Hansu: I won't.
Hansu's father: You ingrate! After all I sacrificed for you, you dare disobey me?
Hansu: Father.
Hansu's father: In your eyes, I see the reflection of a ridiculous man.
Hansu: That's not how I see you.

Hansu's Father: One day you will fall in love, and you too will lose yourself to her.
Hansu: I won't do what you did. Never.

...more than 100,000 lives were lost, including innocent Koreans scapegoated for the devastations afterward by Japanese vigilantes. The exact number of Koreans murdered is disputed, but many historians place the casualties in the thousands.

On September 1st, 1923, an earthquake of 7.9 magnitude erupted in the Kanto Region. More than 100,000 lives were lost...

Sunja: Why don't you wear your suit anymore?
Isak: God doesn't need me in a suit. This feels more comfortable.

Grandma Sunja: More important than being successful is how you came by your success.
Solomon: I know, Grandmother. I'm trying.

Hana: Do I... look hideous to you?
Etsuko: I only worry that you are in pain. You are still my Hana. Nothing will ever change that.

Pachinko Quotes

Young Sunja: He doesn't look very happy.
Fisherman: That's because even the most wretched creatures yearn to live.
Young Sunja: Not the lady who sells chestnuts.

Father: He has been promoted to vice-president by his American bank!
Hiroto-San: Not bad for the son of a Pachinko man. Is it true you went to Yale?
Solomon: If my father says so, then it must be.