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
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00:00:12 White Beast
00:04:20 Well, I see you've graduated from some good schools.
00:08:24 If you have cigarettes, give us some.
00:11:40 That's not true!
00:14:36 But isn't that an old way of thinking?
00:17:28 Ono, you've gotten much better.
00:20:56 Once a woman sells her body, that's it. It's over.
00:23:51 I put on some of the records you brought us.
00:28:12 Such ignorance! This is a fine mess, isn't it?
00:31:06 I'll get you permission.
00:35:07 About the Director and the Doctor.
00:39:12 But I think differently now. The Boss says that we're not bad
00:44:02 But they want an inmate to go with her.
00:49:25 I wonder if anything's different for you if you work in the office.
00:53:26 Handstands? You're quite a tomboy aren't you.
00:57:14 I hope they all come back and that nothing happens to them.
01:01:17 I thought you might never come. What's wrong?
01:04:47 Thank you.
01:08:41 Why do you say such awful things?
01:13:41 women would be harassed by men.
01:17:41 It was probably one of the girls.
01:22:38 so we moved her into the sick room.
01:25:50 Give me a break!
01:31:36 You're awake, aren't you?