Yes, I Can't Swim

2022 · 113 MIN · IMDB 5.4 · DIR. Kensaku Watanabe

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Overview

Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and people, still he decides on the spur of the moment to enroll in a swimming class. There he encounters the teacher Shizuka Usuhara, who ignores his last-minute hesitation and enrolls him.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,429 lines

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00:00:29 The French philosopher Gaston Bachelard
00:04:06 He's pronouncing the kanji individually Ko-Little, Tori-Bird, Yu-Play
00:07:07 Oh, uh...
00:10:03 Oh, enough already!
00:13:09 The due date is October 10th.
00:17:36 Takanashi-san?
00:21:15 I can hear cicadas buzzing.
00:25:24 A tiger and a deer?
00:29:16 At home?
00:33:48 Exhaling is paying it back, and then borrowing some more money again.
00:37:26 "See you tomorrow at sunset."
00:42:12 Please be aware of this position when you swim.
00:45:25 While swimming, the eyes, nose and ears
00:49:36 Don't be.
00:54:16 I broke my pelvis and couldn't even walk.
00:58:21 Penguins have more trouble on land.
01:02:39 Beach balls...
01:10:09 You don't have to think about how to learn to swim or how to move forward.
01:14:51 You're just suffering from memory loss.
01:22:48 The beach.
01:28:49 Do you think that being so hard on yourself
01:33:56 Tomoya!
01:42:32 And this. I already took the money out.
01:49:20 I can do it.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,429
Dialogue density12.6 lines / min
First line00:00:29
Final line01:49:20

Production Record

DirectorKensaku Watanabe
LanguageJapanese

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