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Twilight Saloon
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.
| Release : | 1955 |
| Rating : | 7.8 |
| Studio : | Shintoho Company, |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Director of Photography, |
| Cast : | Isamu Kosugi Jun Tatara Hitomi Nozoe Keiko Tsushima Minoru Takada |
| Genre : | Drama |
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Wow! Such a good movie.
The greatest movie ever!
Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
