A Humble Life
1997 · 76 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 168 VOTES · DIR. Aleksandr Sokurov
Overview
A Humble Life is certainly true to its title, a documentary study of the day-to-day world of Umeno Mathuyoshi, an old woman who lives in an isolated mountain house in the Nara prefecture in Japan.
Dialogue Timeline — 85 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:41 Dear Hiroko!
00:02:03 ...rumble of wheels and murmur of the wind...
00:02:46 Otherwise - what for did I deserve this gift, this encounter...
00:04:29 my bedding was on the mat...
00:05:19 or perhaps, of the future...
00:08:01 Morning was windy, cold and sunny...
00:11:27 It seemed she did not notice me...
00:15:03 light, sounds - all her life.
00:20:31 allowed to spend in her old house
00:34:46 ...I have never seen
00:38:52 What a delicate
00:39:18 in everything there is persistence
00:40:02 the doors are opened... It is cold in the house...
00:59:47 but she kept silent...
01:02:28 sure that I should never see it again.
01:04:19 She told me she would read her poems
01:05:30 Every morning In a little temple
01:06:39 Ten years have passed Since I have lost my husband
01:07:04 in bamboo pipe's sounds.
01:07:38 mountainous place Somehow unnoticed
01:08:53 To a streamlet murmur
01:09:26 Ah, the autumn moon...
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed85
Dialogue density1.1 lines / min
First line00:01:41
Final line01:09:26
Production Record
DirectorAleksandr Sokurov
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes168