The Mikado
1983 · 141 MIN · IMDB 8.5 · 138 VOTES · DIR. Norman Campbell, Brian Macdonald
Overview
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his unrequited love for the maiden Yum-Yum. Nanki-Poo agrees to sacrifice his life if he is allowed to spend his remaining days with Yum-Yum, who is betrothed to Ko-Ko.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,929 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:04:53 If you want to know who we are
00:11:19 And what may be your business with Yum-Yum?
00:16:28 - And the salaries attached to them? - I beg your pardon?
00:22:26 By a set of curious chances
00:28:07 Pooh-Bah.
00:34:13 Life is a joke that's just begun
00:38:19 It is very difficult and painful for me to me to have to say
00:44:06 Oh, deuce take the law!
00:50:01 And in the second, it's suicide.
00:54:12 A dull, dark dock A lifelong lock
00:58:13 Yes, that's true, of course. I quite see that.
01:04:09 May you have health May you have health and riches too
01:10:47 In vain you interrupt with this tornado
01:19:43 So kindly be indulgent
01:25:57 Sing a merry madrigal
01:31:33 You see, burial alive.
01:35:59 the ends of justice by committing suicide.
01:40:53 But they're nothing at all, compared With those of his daughter-in-law elect!
01:46:37 Yes, the coroner has just handed me his certificate.
01:50:48 Learn, then, that it is not in the face alone that beauty is to be sought.
01:55:09 Oh, yes, and what about your big right arm, uh?
02:01:38 Hearts do not break! They sting and ache
02:08:27 Oh, willow, tit-willow, tit-willow
02:13:23 but my difficulty is that, as you have slain the heir apparent...
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,929
Dialogue density13.7 lines / min
First line00:04:53
Final line02:13:23
Production Record
DirectorNorman Campbell, Brian Macdonald
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes138