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.
00:07:31 Who's the host?
00:10:31 Mr. Koga!
00:16:32 Yes, ma'am.
00:19:14 'Bye!
00:23:01 NO. Some other time.
00:26:43 If I were much younger, I couId have done it.
00:35:15 So you crossed Himi Pass?
00:38:35 If you don't care about that, heIp me.
00:43:10 Then why?
00:47:44 Where are you going?
00:52:32 How seIfish!
00:55:54 He was my partner, but he betrayed me.
01:00:06 *The Russians come by boat to view Shiro IsIand.*
01:05:13 But if I take you, we'II Iose purity of heart.
01:10:48 She's her mother.
01:13:55 You know the answer.
01:17:17 I couIdn't answer. I cried.
01:22:30 A famous poet named Yaso Saijo.
01:29:05 Excuse me. Is a girI named Okimi here?
01:32:33 I never had a chiId of my own.
01:37:28 The credit goes to you, but...
01:41:38 Tome, the hotchpotch man.
01:45:21 I know.