Dumbeast
2009 · 106 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 142 VOTES · DIR. Mr. Hide
Overview
How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a. Dumb Animal) to the big screen in all its wacky tragicomedic glory. The one and only Asano Tadanobu sports a seriously nerdy bowl haircut to play the leading role of simple-minded novelist Dekogawa who has mysteriously disappeared. Dekogawa wrote an autobiography about his youth that reveals not only his past, but also some of his childhood friends’ best-forgotten secrets. In order to keep the skeletons in the closet, these buddies of yesteryear try to silence him permanently. But no matter how hard they try to kill Dekogawa, he just keeps coming back – because he’s simply too thickheaded to die!
Dialogue Timeline — 1,279 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:16 We'd like to apologize for the inconvenience.
00:06:27 It's been nominated for a big prize.
00:09:49 Voila.
00:13:57 Why the big pause just now?
00:18:14 I don't remember.
00:22:58 he's planning to write about that incident?
00:26:56 So he hid the fact he was writing a novel?
00:29:59 This gets more confusing.
00:33:29 For chrissakes...
00:37:53 They were soon practically living together.
00:41:42 Really.
00:44:44 Me and you.
00:47:57 We don't know 'til we try, jerk!
00:51:22 Why drink like that?
00:55:25 But...
01:00:28 Where's Eda?
01:03:27 It's his official seal. What did you do with it?
01:07:41 Wow, cake. Looks good.
01:11:18 All talk of him becoming sumo chairman, vanished.
01:15:18 So much for being "re-born".
01:18:59 We analyze tire treads pretty well these days.
01:23:16 Tokyo Banana Cakes!
01:28:34 Closing up?
01:34:18 You don't have it.