Letter from an Unknown Woman
2004 · 90 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 765 VOTES · DIR. Xu Jinglei
Overview
Peking, 1948. A winter night. A man returns home to find a letter awaiting him written by a woman before her death. in the letter she tells him the story of her love for him -a life-long passion that has not diminished over time, but one that he has never known. her story spans 18 years from the moment she -then a 13 year-old girl- sets her eyes on her new neighbor. she tells their brief but passionate love in her youthi the hardship she goes through raising their child alone, and their final encounter after the war, during which the man fails tor ecognize her and one which leaves her in despair. Now having lost her son, she no longer has the courage to live on. Only in a letter is she capable of telling him everything, for the first and the last time. shaken by the letter, the man searches his memory for the nameless woman.
Dialogue Timeline — 447 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:11 Becareful.
00:04:07 Now, all I have in this world is you.
00:05:24 People will never lie when her only son died.
00:07:26 another writer help this single gentleman rented the north room.
00:10:39 I guess you are a gentleman wearing glasses
00:13:55 I fell in love at the very first second
00:17:50 take it to the north room
00:21:37 feel a kind of happiness which makes me faint
00:23:17 You are going to have a good time in Shan Dong
00:29:35 During the six long years in Shan Dong
00:38:18 You have pretty much time to care about politics
00:45:48 my childhood, my dreams
00:52:06 I suddenly discovered
00:54:07 But, you never think about me
00:56:33 Is everything all right?
00:59:57 So nice to meet you Mr.Ma
01:01:05 like the one
01:02:55 I say not good
01:06:13 Forget his words.
01:09:43 Captain Huang, may I have the honor to dance with Miss Jiang?
01:12:50 So nice.
01:17:14 My lover often goes out, too.
01:20:39 Of course.
01:24:33 Never back, leave me alone.