Poppy

1935 · 72 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 259 VOTES · DIR. Kenji Mizoguchi

Poppy poster

Overview

Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to Munechika, a rising young diplomat. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. But she falls in love with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono is himself bound by an engagement to Sayoko, the daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue. The self-centered Fujio is ready to forsake everything for Ono, but he is prevailed upon to go ahead with his marriage to Sayoko. Fujio then offers the watch to Munechika who, perceiving Fujio’s true feelings, hurls the watch into the sea.

Dialogue Timeline — 621 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:04 Poppy
00:05:37 I'm getting old.
00:07:42 I began to think that he would make a good husband.
00:10:23 I'll make passionate love to him.
00:12:19 Your late father had agreed that he would marry you. It's a bad case.
00:14:43 Hajime is your heir.
00:17:13 He's a brilliant student.
00:20:23 Asai, I think we are going to have a happy life.
00:22:43 I want you to start a family.
00:24:56 Yes.
00:27:12 Fujio's selfish. She's putting you through hell.
00:31:08 Come soon.
00:34:33 Surprised? Why?
00:36:16 I have my own plans.
00:38:57 Alright.
00:43:36 Welcome home.
00:45:42 It's not worth it.
00:49:09 Not at all.
00:50:31 Financially ?
00:53:22 But why couldn't he tell us so in person?
00:58:00 ''lt's clear that he's rejecting my daugther.
01:00:24 He cannot live a lie forever.
01:02:29 In Kyoto, we'll be alone again.
01:06:38 From now on you'll understand what I really wanted.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed621
Dialogue density8.6 lines / min
First line00:00:04
Final line01:06:38

Production Record

DirectorKenji Mizoguchi
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes259