Flunky, Work Hard!

1931 · 29 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 544 VOTES · DIR. Mikio Naruse

Overview

A short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy.

ComedyDrama1930s

Dialogue Timeline — 78 lines

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00:00:04 LITTLE MAN, DO YOUR BEST.
00:00:21 Isamu Yamaguchi Tomoko Naniwa Sei´ichi Kato
00:02:21 Better show his parents.
00:03:21 My husband sent him to your house.
00:03:36 We´re thinking of doing the same for ours.
00:04:33 When we get a little money let´s insure Susumu too.
00:05:43 It´s wealthy hosehold with five children.
00:06:54 Daddy, buy me an airplane!
00:07:51 The agent from Musashi Life is very persistent too.
00:08:22 I´m from Musashi Life.
00:08:49 I won´t sing with either of you.
00:12:58 You´d better go home. The winner´s been decided.
00:14:39 I´ll let you fly it.
00:16:45 But it´s their fault. They hit me first, and...
00:17:02 But it´s not good to have too many fights.
00:17:49 But it was his fault.
00:18:08 ...it´s all right to let them have it.
00:18:44 If you don´t I´ll be in trouble.
00:19:43 Whose child was it?
00:20:06 I´m worried. Please go find him.
00:21:00 Children have no fear, so you never know...
00:23:22 Susumu was hit by a train.
00:25:46 We´ll have to observe him a little longer...
00:28:15 THE END

Cast & Characters

Shizue Akiyama Toda's wife Seiichi Katô Tomoko Naniwa Okabe's wife Tokio Seki Nakamura Hideo Sugawara Isamu Yamaguchi Okabe

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed78
Dialogue density2.7 lines / min
First line00:00:04
Final line00:28:15

Production Record

DirectorMikio Naruse
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes544