Twilight Saloon(1955)
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Overview
Takes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this concentration of setting and time to fashion a microcosm for a group portrait of Japan. One by one, the regulars of the bar appear: the pianist who dreams of becoming a composer but has disappeared from the music world after a knifing; a stripper who had planned to be a ballet dancer; an elderly painter trying to make a living at pachinko, and who rues his art having been used for militarist propaganda during the war; a young waitress considering elopement; a colonel turned real estate broker who attempts to rouse the crowd in military song until he realizes the tune has been transformed by marchers in the street into a leftist chant. The "twilight" is more than just a time of day; here, it is a state of being, a suspension between past and present, between the camaraderie of the saloon and the harsh world outside.
Director
Movie Cast
Moichiro Umeda
Kinya Eto
Kenichi Maruyama
Kozo Taniguchi
Tetsuo Kumishima
Yuki Noguchi
Emy Rosa
Ryusuke Nakakoji
Onizuka
Kibe
Morimoto
Movie Stats
StatusReleased
BudgetNot Given
RevenueNot Given
Production CompanyShintoho Company
Original LanguageJapanese
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