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Excuses, justification Love Refusal Wedding, marriage

So I refused to recognize my own feelings

(L’Anneau de fiançailles)

Kinoshita
Konyaku yubiwa (1950)

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Happiness, satisfaction Invitation, party Refusal Surprise, wonder

I’m happily declining

(Un toast pour mademoiselle)

Kinoshia
Ojôsan kanpai (1949)

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Get well soon, health Surprise, wonder

What’s the trouble?

Winner, Lancaster
Lawman (1971)

Categories
Disappointment Friendship Split ups

Tu m’as trahi. Tu as trahi notre amitié

Stan & Ollie (2018)

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Surprise, wonder

But how can you forget your own panties?

Bong Joon-ho
Parasite (2019)

Categories
Disappointment Excuses, justification

I got used to giving up on things

(Nuages lointains)

Kinoshita, Takamine
Tôi kumo (1955)

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Condolences, consolation Stress, worry

Why kill myself worrying when I’ll end up just as dead anyway?

De Sica
Ladri di biciclette (1948)

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Condolences, consolation Sadness

I wanted to die

Kinoshita
Onna no sono (1954)

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Happiness, satisfaction Sadness Surprise, wonder

Have you been happy?

(Nuages lointains)

Kinoshita, Takamine
Tôi kumo (1955)

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Refusal Sadness Surprise, wonder

How could I be happy?

Kinoshita, Takamine
Tôi kumo (1955)

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Friendship Get well soon, health

Of course I care. He’s my best friend

(Une chandelle dans le vent)

Fûzen no tomoshibi (1957)

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Disgust, dislike Hope, desire

It’d be nice to have some variety in my diet

(Une chandelle dans le vent)

Kinoshita
Fûzen no tomoshibi (1957)

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Inspirational, advice Stress, worry Work

We must work hard, or else we won’t survive

(Les Géants et les Jouets)

Masumura
Kyojin to gangu (1958)

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Sadness

I truly miss the good old days

(You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum)

Kinoshita
Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki (1955)

Categories
Sadness

Elle est bien finie, notre jeunesse

(Bon à rien)

Yoshida
Rokudenashi (1960)

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Happiness, satisfaction Sex

Warm, soft, damp, with seeds inside, so round…

Jarmusch
Night on Earth (1991)

Categories
Disappointment

You only want the good part of things

(Jeune fille sous le ciel bleu)

Kinoshita
Aozora musume (1957)

Categories
Loneliness Love Seasons

Come back to me as the autumn wind blows

(You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum)

Kinoshita
Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki (1955)

Categories
Goodbyes Stress, worry

I’m just so worried about leaving you alone

(Boyhood)

Kinoshita
Shônenki (1951)

Categories
Disappointment Shame, guilt Work

Dad, I’m going to be a fish vendor

(Nuages au crépuscule)

Kinoshita
Yûyake-gumo (1956)

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Disappointment Happiness, satisfaction

I certainly think men don’t understand what makes us happy

(Le Bon Démon)

Kinoshita
Zen-ma (1951)

Categories
Disappointment Hope, desire

I thought we lived in the same world

(Une auberge à Osaka)

Heinosuke
Osaka no yado (1954)

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Hope, desire Inspirational, advice

First we must live

(Une auberge à Osaka)

Heinosuke
Osaka no yado (1954)

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Disappointment Refusal Surprise, wonder

But non of our students can be a red

(Le Jardin des femmes)

Kinoshita
Onna no sono (1954)

Categories
Disappointment

My God what a travesty of a mother you’ve turned out to be!

Richardson
A Taste of Honey (1961)

Categories
Friendship

Oui, dites-leur qu’on est pas des ennemis, mais des amis

Curtiz
Virginia City (1940)

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Disappointment Surprise, wonder

Where did humanity go?

Heinosuke
Osaka no yado (1954)

Categories
Disappointment

The shadow of a man can never stand up and walk on its own

Kurosawa
Kagemusha (1980)

Categories
Disappointment

Je n’y comprends rien

Kurosawa
Rashomon (1950)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Loneliness

But life is about facing your loneliness

Kinoshita, Tanaka
Fushichô (1947)

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Sadness

Et tout mon monde s’est effondré

Naruse, Takamine
Onna no rekishi (1963)

Categories
Disappointment Wedding, marriage

Je suis sûre que comme nous, vos femmes ne sont pas dupes

Azner, O’Hara
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Categories
Surprise, wonder

That guy’s awful slow gettin’ there

Wellman, Fonda
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Categories
Surprise, wonder

N’est-ce pas le cas ?

De Toth, Lex Barker
Thunder Over the Plains (1953)

Categories
Disappointment Refusal

Poetry in translation is like taking a shower with a raincoat on

This metaphor is usually used in a different context : “Some men claim that using a condom is like taking a shower with a raincoat on ” (Nass, Libby, Fisher, Sexual Choices: An Introduction to Human Sexuality, 1984, p. 366)

Jarmusch
Paterson (2016)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Get well soon, health Good News Hope, desire

La vie continue

Malick
The Tree of Life (2011)

Categories
Good News Happiness, satisfaction Love

Don’t you know that it takes so little to me happy?

Benigni
La vita è bella (1997)

Categories
Good News Happiness, satisfaction Love

She is so beautiful! I even dreamt about her

Benigni
La vita è bella (1997)

Categories
Good News Happiness, satisfaction

I think it’s good to be alive, it’s all good

Fellini, Benigni
La voce della luna (1990)

Categories
Disappointment Disgust, dislike Sadness

What a fucked-up world

Jarmusch, Waits
The Dead Don’t Die (2018)

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Happiness, satisfaction Sadness

It is a sad and beautiful world

Jarmusch, Benigni
Down by Law (1986)

Categories
Good News Happiness, satisfaction

Excitant, n’est-ce pas ?

Marshall, Paulette Goddard
The Ghost Breakers (1940)

Categories
Loneliness Love

Rappelez-vous mon homme oublié

A woman’s got to have a man
Forgetting him, you see
Means you’re forgetting me
Like my forgotten man

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

Categories
Pain

Vous me faites mal

Losey, Bogarde
The Sleeping Tiger (1954)

Categories
Disappointment Sex Surprise, wonder Work

Où sont tes outils et le bidon d’huile ?

Siegel, Cassavetes, Dickinson
The Killers (1964)

Categories
Love

I am

Losey
The Lawless (1950)

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Hope, desire

Give me time

Losey, Krüger, Presle
Blind Date (1959)

Categories
Invitation, party Surprise, wonder

Où avec vous appris à tirer ainsi ?

Curtiz, Flynn, Scott
Virginia City (1940)

Categories
Boredom Disappointment Invitation, party

Let’s go

Chaplin
A King in New York (1957)

Categories
Disgust, dislike Surprise, wonder

Ce sont des émigrants !

Roy Baker
A Night to Remember (1967)