The Face of Jizo
2004 · 99 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 254 VOTES · DIR. Kazuo Kuroki
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
00:04:14 I didn't want you to be starved. So I tried my best.
00:08:09 when he caught sight of the buns.
00:11:52 Oh, daddy!
00:16:05 You won't have eyes for anybody else.
00:19:48 Objects related to the A-bomb...?
00:24:54 "She told the old man the news. He hollered:
00:28:47 It wasn't an argument. It was a debate.
00:33:55 I know I'm asking a lot.
00:37:22 The storytelling is for children.
00:41:05 "Then the atomic blast.
00:46:03 Your old man 's a brute.
00:49:47 I still have it.
00:53:02 You two seem to have it all sewn up.
00:56:28 One look at her and I got so thrilled.
01:00:54 What is it?
01:04:57 covered in enormous blisters.
01:09:15 I'm perfectly at peace with what happened to me.
01:15:34 The driver'll have to content himself with cold water.
01:17:53 "Once Around the Stars"?
01:22:03 I came out of the throbbing of your heart
01:26:10 The same sort of thing was happening all over Hiroshima.
01:31:01 "Live my life for me too."
03:00:04 get together in a pine forest at Hijiyama.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,049
Dialogue density10.6 lines / min
First line00:00:02
Final line03:00:04
Production Record
DirectorKazuo Kuroki
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes254