Japan

Famous movie lines have a way of insinuating themselves into popular culture and language, until even those who know a film only by hearsay quote from it, if only because everyone else does. Japanese films have generated their share of å��ã�›ã‚Šã�µ (meiserifu or famous lines), though it helps to know the context to get the full effect. For example,「事件ã�¯ä 1/4 šè­°å®?ã�§èµ·ã��ã�?ã‚‹ã‚“ã�˜ã‚ƒã�ªã�„ï 1/4 �ç� 3/4 å ?ã�§èµ·ã��ã�?ã‚‹ã‚“ã� ï 1/4 �ã€�("Jiken wa kaigishitsu de okiterunjanai! Genba de okiterunda!" "Crimes don't occur in the conference room! They occur in the streets!") has become a movie quote that "everyone knows." However, its power comes from the character who utters it, Yuji Oda's Detective Aoshima in「è,Šã‚‹å?§æ�œæŸ»ç·šã€�("Odoru Daisosasen [Bayside Shakedown]"), a 1998 film based on a hit TV show about cops in the trendy Tokyo Bay district. A cheeky nonconformist, Aoshima keeps butting heads with his ä,Šå�, (joshi, superiors) in the è­?察官僚 (keisatsu kanryō, police bureaucracy). The above line, shouted at the film's climax, became the era's cri de coeur.