The Face of Jizo

2004 · 99 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 254 VOTES · DIR. Kazuo Kuroki

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Overview

Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,049 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:02 Directed by Kazuo Kuroki
00:04:10 Mom died when you were a little girl.
00:07:55 He got it at a stall.
00:11:32 You see too much in a little bun.
00:15:41 Another meaning in that bun...
00:19:12 When he started to approach the checkout desk
00:24:06 "The two were able to get by thanks to the old woman:
00:27:55 I get that point.
00:32:57 And a burnt grandfather clock.
00:36:26 Then I started shouting, I guess.
00:39:36 the story goes differently.
00:43:30 into a story...
00:48:32 Not recently.
00:51:43 I know you're lying.
00:54:58 We went through schools together.
00:58:06 She saved me with a letter.
01:02:47 I can't do that!
01:07:06 Listen to me!
01:11:31 That's an order!
01:16:17 That'd be scandalous, too.
01:19:20 In the heavens the stars twinkle.
01:22:54 The person I feel so awful and guilty about is...
01:28:15 So I said, "Get out of here!"
01:31:55 Have some other child instead.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,049
Dialogue density10.6 lines / min
First line00:00:02
Final line01:31:55

Production Record

DirectorKazuo Kuroki
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes254