The Ambitious
1970 · 120 MIN · IMDB 6.0 · 148 VOTES · DIR. Daisuke Itō
Overview
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,218 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:03 TOHO FILMS, LTD. Presents
00:05:16 How can I wear such sandals?
00:09:52 Are you trying to cover for him?
00:16:09 Oh, you're from 3 Chome, Honmachi
00:20:24 How is the Choshu situation?
00:24:19 Oh yeah... Shintaro!
00:29:18 Even though you're in charge of the Japanese Navy
00:33:19 (Speaking in Dutch)
00:40:33 Why is that?
00:45:34 Ah, the 'tinker' went with him.
00:49:57 England, France, America, and Holland.
00:54:19 Maybe we're not all Japanese!
00:58:47 You!
01:02:48 Wait a minute! What do you mean by that?
01:11:20 Hurry to the mansion!
01:16:38 "sacred to the grandchild of the Sun Goddess.
01:22:09 He was here, wasn't he?
01:25:37 Just...
01:29:21 Oryo, I'm back. Sorry for being so late.
01:36:07 Oh I see.
01:39:28 It was a dangerous world of arson, assassinations
01:43:18 our deep hatred of the upper-class.
01:47:35 because not one person out of a hundred or a thousand
01:52:30 Just out of habit, when we argue for a long time
Cast & Characters
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Ryoma Sakamoto
Toshirô Mifune
Shojiro Goto
Keiju Kobayashi
Yoshinosuke Saigo
Tatsuya Nakadai
Shintaro Nakaoka
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Oryo
Katsuo Nakamura
Chojiro Kondo
Noboru Nakaya
Hanheita Takeichi
Eitarô Matsuyama
Umanosuke Shinmiya
Shigeru Kôyama
Kaishu Katsu
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Kogoro Katsura
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,218
Dialogue density10.2 lines / min
First line00:00:03
Final line01:52:30
Production Record
DirectorDaisuke Itō
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes148