Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?

1995 · 49 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 787 VOTES · DIR. Shunji Iwai

Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? poster

Overview

One summer day, a group of sixth-grade boys have an argument about whether fireworks are round or flat when viewed from different angles and embark on a journey for the answer during the annual firework festival. Meanwhile, one of their classmates, Nazuna, is troubled by her parents' separation and decides to choose one of the boys to run away with.

RomanceDrama1990s

Dialogue Timeline — 611 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:33 'The best way to eat natto fermented beans.
00:01:40 'Bye!
00:03:39 And you're not a kid?
00:06:02 Miss...
00:08:16 Take it off.
00:09:55 Let's go!
00:11:58 Fireworks? What is this?
00:12:48 He said from here the angle's wrong.
00:13:45 Come on! Come on!
00:15:17 Tornado Punch!
00:16:48 You do not!
00:17:57 Who, me?
00:19:48 So I'm OK?
00:21:19 Why don't you go get him?
00:23:57 Norimichi! What was that?
00:25:14 I'll come to your place at 5.
00:27:27 It's time to go.
00:29:17 Norimichi.
00:31:06 Are we going already?
00:32:13 Are we going to kill ourselves?
00:34:16 I'm going to the washroom.
00:38:10 Haruko! Haruko!
00:44:06 Where's the fireworks?
00:45:49 Yasu, the fireworks man.

Cast & Characters

Yûta Yamazaki Norimichi Shimada Megumi Okina Nazuna Oikawa Takayuki Sorita Yusuke Azumi Randy Havens Kazuhiro Kenji Kohashi Jyun'ichi Kento Sakuragi Minoru Kuniko Asagi Haruko Miura Yoshikazu Ebisu Move oden stew restaurant visitor Kanako Fukaura Norimichi's mother Mitsuko Ishii Nazuna's mother

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed611
Dialogue density12.5 lines / min
First line00:00:33
Final line00:45:49

Production Record

DirectorShunji Iwai
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes787