White Beast
1950 · 97 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 138 VOTES · DIR. Mikio Naruse
Overview
The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. With its cat fights, hysterical tantrums, film noir lighting, and dramatic music, White Beast is indicative of the new influences of the Hollywood psychological thriller on Naruse. Caged (John Cromwell, 1950) initiated a cycle of women's prison movies in the United States that may or may not have been shown in Japan, but the stylistics of White Beast draw on the same paranoid woman's films and film noir conventions that preceded the American cycle.
Dialogue Timeline - 959 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME - EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:12 White Beast
00:04:24 I'm not a prisoner. Spend a year here? I can't do that!
00:08:41 You're all in the same house and you're all wearing matching suits.
00:12:01 Come in.
00:14:58 You mean when the husband plays around?
00:17:54 if I came back alive.
00:21:52 Yes?
00:25:13 I like you, Doc.
00:29:04 Is there something wrong?
00:32:09 It would look strange if I let everyone but Masuda go out on leave
00:35:58 What? ! This is all your fault!
00:41:56 ...and then Sayama says that she wants
00:47:29 Don't you think I can be a mother?
00:51:28 Have the girls all gone out?
00:55:45 She's a good, obedient kid. She was working by herself in the mess hall.
00:59:16 I think she probably stopped at Iwasaki's place.
01:03:41 Once you get out of there we can live together.
01:07:47 The doctor says I'm over it, but ...
01:11:37 You don't have to attend tonight.
01:16:43 Sorry to worry you.
01:21:04 Don't worry about that. Thank you.
01:25:04 Well, sure, it could happen to one of us anytime.
01:30:01 It's not just my body. I'm dirty right down to my soul.
01:37:17 translated by Guy YASKO