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Twilight Saloon (1955)

ALL 06/19/1955 (ja) Drama 94 Min
  • Release
    06/19/1955
  • Production
    Shintoho Company
  • Rotten tomato
    80%
  • Original title
    たそがれ酒場
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Tomu Uchida

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Hideo Kasama

    Editor



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Twilight Saloon (1955) 94 Min

ALL 06/19/1955 (ja)
Drama
  • Release 06/19/1955
  • Production
    Shintoho Company
  • Original title たそがれ酒場
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Tomu Uchida

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Hideo Kasama

    Editor

  4. Seiichiro Sakaeda

    Producer



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