The Red Spectacles

1987 · 116 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 903 VOTES · DIR. Mamoru Oshii

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Overview

Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded. However one member remains, a stray dog who returns to his old roost after a three-years exile. This wild dog no longer has a master, but now the "Young Lady of Fate" will guide him on his journey.

Dialogue Timeline — 822 lines

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00:00:01 At the end of the 20th century: In opposition to a marked rise in city crime and its increasingly vicious nature, the Metropolitan Police established within itself the Anti-Vicious Crime Heavily Armored Mobile Special Investigation Unit. Police men and women of superior intellect and physical strength, who had a particularly strong sense of justice, were selected and made its members.
00:03:15 We knew it since we decided to refuse to disarm and escape.
00:10:15 Screenplay Kazunori Ito Mamoru Oshii
00:22:31 Dogs, live. Cats, die.
00:25:54 Those shops are the place where youngsters, wanting to get away...
00:31:30 Do you remember now?
00:38:52 Soichiroh Toribe...
00:44:11 ...stand-and-eat soba, suffered from symptoms of acute diarrhea.
00:46:18 What are you thinking?
00:49:16 Straighten your backs, and do some kick-ups.
00:54:08 And elbow-stretching.
00:56:41 Maybe not.
00:59:45 The time might be getting close.
01:02:42 Now, it's time for some wake-up exercises.
01:05:32 Once upon a time, there was a magnet living some place.
01:08:47 Right there, I'm telling you.
01:14:06 Which am I?
01:16:01 Making those decisions without being sentimental...
01:21:59 The lost, lost little kitten Where is your home
01:25:26 ... I committed the crimes of stealing a vehicle, inflicting damage to property...
01:28:11 Man is neither an angel nor a beast.
01:30:29 You, don't move!
01:38:41 However, there was one member who did not show up at the venue at all.
28:19:09 All accused members of the "Kerberos Unitary Group" were found guilty. An appeal to the higher court was dismissed.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed822
Dialogue density7.1 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line28:19:09

Production Record

DirectorMamoru Oshii
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes903