It Is a Long Walk
2000 · 115 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 64 VOTES · DIR. Yukio Fukamachi
Overview
Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich, she doles out money to street kids, in particular, a pretty young flower vendor named Oyuki, who becomes Aihara's godchild of sorts. Yet when a geisha (Reiko Takashima) from a rival red-light district insults Aihara and her brethren, she fights back. Soon an all-out geisha war looms. Dapper businessman and amateur scholar Tojiro Koga (Tetsuya Watari) appears on the scene and defuses tempers -- suggesting that difference be settled through a competition of artistic abilities. Smitten with her talent and mature beauty, Koga invites Aihara to record Nagasaki folk songs before they disappear forever
Dialogue Timeline - 956 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME - EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:50 Nagasaki is a town of foreigners.
00:07:32 The master of Yorozuya from Goto.
00:10:38 GirIs! Here's the master.
00:16:44 Aihachi's footwear!
00:19:41 Yes, She's motherIess.
00:24:38 I pity the Tosa.
00:28:09 Master.
00:35:54 You Iooked crazy when you scattered money. Was it fun?
00:40:53 My husband considers these documents as treasures.
00:43:48 After centuries, it's badIy weathered.
00:50:34 WouId you Iike something coId?
00:54:08 Good evening.
00:58:48 OriginaIIy it was caIIed *Chu-Chu* songs.
01:01:39 It's aIive with music in the summer festivaI.
01:07:40 Here's my humbIe gift for you.
01:12:45 He wanted me to give him money
01:16:11 *No Visitors*
01:21:15 OnIy pawn brokers know.
01:24:50 Drink it up in ceIebration.
01:31:40 How did you find me?
01:35:22 He can see through me.
01:40:29 Oyuki can make a nice debut as a geisha.
01:44:37 You pity poor peopIe and give them your money.
01:52:29 FIowers are there aII the time.