I Was Born, But...
1932 · 91 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 6,463 VOTES · DIR. Yasujirō Ozu
Overview
Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of childhood as well as the tragedy of maturity.
Dialogue Timeline — 203 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:20 A SHOCHIKU FILM
00:00:59 Director of Photography and Editor HIDEO MOHARA
00:01:42 SHOTARO FUJIMATSU MASAO HAYAMA
00:06:49 Please feel free to ask our houseboy to help with your move.
00:12:12 I'll give it to you good at school.
00:17:18 I got an E in every subject, including calligraphy and arithmetic.
00:24:13 “Good for the children,'' he says.
00:29:10 That worked well.
00:33:19 Ryoichi got an E today.
00:35:33 THE NEXT MORNING...
00:41:34 lf you eat it, you can be as strong as him.
00:44:56 My lucky day.
00:50:09 His father can look really scary.
00:52:26 My dad's car is fancier.
00:55:55 They're going to show home movies at his place.
01:00:02 Are they black stripes on white or the other way around?
01:05:41 Stupid! He's not.
01:09:08 Yeah! You pay him instead!
01:11:06 Why are you pestering me with these questions?
01:15:09 You got a spanking.
01:17:48 I don't cozy up to the boss because I enjoy it.
01:21:41 We don't want anything.
01:27:14 You better go say good morning to him, Dad.
Cast & Characters
Tatsuo Saitô
Yoshi (Chichi)
Tomio Aoki
Keiji
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Haha (Yoshi's Wife)
Hideo Sugawara
Ryoichi
Takeshi Sakamoto
Juuyaku (Iwasaki, Executive)
Teruyo Hayami
Fujin (Iwasaki's wife)
Seiichi Katô
Kodomo (Taro)
Shôichi Kofujita
Kozou (Delivery boy)
Seiji Nishimura
Sensei (Teacher)
Zentarô Iijima
Asobi nakama (Friend)
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed203
Dialogue density2.2 lines / min
First line00:00:20
Final line01:27:14
Production Record
DirectorYasujirō Ozu
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes6,463