The Thick-Walled Room

Name: The Thick-Walled Room
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Released: 1956
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Kô Mishima, Torahiko Hamada, Keiko Kishi, Toshiko Kobayashi, Eitarô Ozawa

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

00:07:44 What's that?

00:12:42 Seven.

00:16:24 Look at the beauty mark. Right here.

00:21:29 All the savages are guerrillas.

00:26:19 No good. They say I can't bring them.

00:29:05 I didn't start the war.

00:32:10 You bastard.

00:36:05 They use up more firewood.

00:41:10 You'll pay for it.

00:43:44 No thank you. It's not that bad.

00:50:03 We need to form a committee to prepare ourselves.

00:52:26 You've done it.

00:55:28 What? A prisoner escaped?

01:03:46 I didn't want to die like that.

01:13:01 I'll keep trying to escape until I succeed.

01:15:56 I'd better go home now. I have preparations to make.

01:19:04 Don't get me wrong. I did it because -

01:22:00 Hear, hear!

01:25:54 And there's another problem.

01:28:54 Here, I borrowed rain gear from the office.

01:36:27 But Kiyoshi is back home for her.

01:40:34 What scum he is.

30:00:00 in his bank.

Cast & Characters

Kô Mishima Yokota Torahiko Hamada Yamashita Keiko Kishi Yoshiko Toshiko Kobayashi Yamashita's sister Eitarô Ozawa Junko Anami Tomio Aoki Yoshiko Ashigawa Tadashi Azuma Shûichi Doki

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,062

Dialogue density9.7 lines / min

First line00:00:21

Final line30:00:00

Production Record

DirectorMasaki Kobayashi

LanguageJapanese

IMDb votes691