The Thick-Walled Room
1956 · 110 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 691 VOTES · DIR. Masaki Kobayashi
Overview
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,062 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:21 A SHOCHIKU FILM
00:06:50 I'm growing it long to use as a rope to hang myself.
00:12:32 It gives me the creeps.
00:16:19 This woman is...
00:21:17 Isn't he a lookout for the guerrillas?
00:26:05 How are you doing?
00:28:47 If not me, then someone else...
00:31:19 You can't imagine what she meant to me.
00:35:17 - He's dead. - What?
00:39:53 Here, I learned to survive.
00:43:05 Can't you just be glad and think it over?
00:49:34 You can boil it in soy sauce and eat it.
00:51:51 But my true brothers are the poor.
00:54:16 And now he threatens to cut us off if we complain.
00:57:39 Here?
01:10:42 Damn it. I thought he had come to help me.
01:14:55 She's absolutely right.
01:17:42 You mean it won't help us?
01:20:45 Their action will only hinder our campaign to promote the release of war criminals.
01:23:30 May I consider this meeting as our general assembly and take a vote?
01:27:17 I'm repentant.
01:33:52 Yeah. That's a good aphorism.
01:39:04 That bastard...
01:43:48 Shut up!
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,062
Dialogue density9.7 lines / min
First line00:00:21
Final line01:43:48
Production Record
DirectorMasaki Kobayashi
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes691