The River
1997 · 116 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 3,466 VOTES · DIR. Tsai Ming-liang
Overview
A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobody can provide him any relief.
Dialogue Timeline — 292 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:09 THE RIVER
00:01:27 About two years!
00:02:46 Okay. Shove it out. Lights.
00:03:25 Be careful with the dummy.
00:04:23 It still doesn't work.
00:05:45 Cut.
00:06:33 Those feet, they look fake, right?
00:07:30 -Know how to swim? -Swim?
00:08:43 Do you smoke? Later, then.
00:10:06 Okay. Ready. Action!
00:11:33 You smell awful.
00:25:55 -Two. -Two.
00:27:52 Deliveries. Again.
00:37:41 What?
00:38:23 At Pei Hou Temple...
00:42:03 Can't you quit biking with a neck like that?
00:46:14 Get off the bike and sit down.
00:50:52 A massage rod. Just relax.
01:06:20 Relax.
01:07:27 Good, good.
01:10:13 Why? Now, be a good boy.
01:13:26 One more thing.
01:15:15 We'll have to hang around one more day.
01:47:02 No more visits to his temple are needed.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed292
Dialogue density2.5 lines / min
First line00:00:09
Final line01:47:02
Production Record
DirectorTsai Ming-liang
LanguageChinese
IMDb votes3,466