The Insect Woman

Name: The Insect Woman
Director: Shōhei Imamura
Released: 1963
Duration: 123 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Seizaburô Kawazu, Kazuo Kitamura, Tanie Kitabayashi, Teruko Kishi, Emiko Aizawa

1963 · 123 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 2,582 VOTES · DIR. Shōhei Imamura

Overview

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,417 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:00 A SELECTION OF THE JAPAN ARTS FESTIVAL

00:07:31 is the same as work for the the fatherland.

00:11:56 Looks bad. Full of pus.

00:17:24 She's so noisy!

00:23:29 Grandpa.

00:27:55 A man grabbed my hand at the movies once.

00:33:13 I feel sorry for all Jap girls.

00:38:35 My marriage failed. I have a child.

00:42:55 She's new. Madame met her at God's place.

00:47:05 I'm just soothing the pain of the world.

00:53:16 And you're the only one I trust.

00:58:09 Sorry, we don't need water. Take it back.

01:03:11 Wejust need you to corroborate it.

01:07:24 - Let me watch too. - Too many of you here. It's risky.

01:12:28 it'd be useful now.

01:18:02 I don't want him to work.

01:23:55 Mama.

01:27:40 I'm leaving tonight.

01:33:02 I'm Kanbayashi, Yoshiji.

01:38:29 Go there. They'll show you your new place.

01:43:58 Yes, that's how life is.

01:48:51 I won't let you go.

01:53:54 Right away. She gets more countrified...

01:58:57 You don't know whose it is. Why worry?

Cast & Characters

Seizaburô Kawazu Karasawa Kazuo Kitamura Chuji Tanie Kitabayashi Madam Teruko Kishi Rin Emiko Aizawa Rui Emiko Azuma Kane Sumie Sasaki En Hiroyuki Nagato Matsunami Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Honda Asao Koike Sawakichi

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,417

Dialogue density11.5 lines / min

First line00:00:00

Final line01:58:57

Production Record

DirectorShōhei Imamura

LanguageJapanese

IMDb votes2,582