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The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a company founded specifically to take advantage of emergent sound technology. P.C.L. worked in collaboration with a brewer’s firm, Dai Nihon Biru, who met the production costs of the film in full, and whose products are featured in the film in an example of the sophisticated and modern merchandising typical of the studio’s early work. The film is partially set in a beer hall, and its story concerns a beer seller at a train station and her relationship with a music student trying to create a hit song. Director Sotoji Kimura was to become a company stalwart, making such films as Ino and Mon, while actress Sachiko Chiba would emerge the studio’s first real star, appearing in such films as Wife Be Like a Rose.
| Release : | 1933 |
| Rating : | 6.5 |
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| Crew : | Director of Photography, Director, |
| Cast : | Musei Tokugawa Dekao Yokoo Heihachirō Ōkawa Hisao Yoshitani Kamatari Fujiwara |
| Genre : | Music |
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Good start, but then it gets ruined
As Good As It Gets
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Sachiko Chiba sells beer at a railroad station. Two young men are in love with her. One of them sells ice cream at the same station. He wants to marry her and open a beer hall. The other is a music student who has just sold his first song.We get to hear that song a lot.There are also a couple of shady characters who wander in and out of the movie, solely to make things happen. My sense of the essential plotlessness of this one might be due to its being a B movie, with an editor cutting out random bits simply to make it short enough so that the theaters can get in another show that day. However, I have seen enough very old Japanese movies to be convinced that often plot drives character in the national cinema, and not the other way around.That being noted, it doesn't mean it's a good idea. This one looks like an RKO piece from the era, with Art Moderne sets that are clearly staged, as well as sequences where people move very strangely in some variation of stage convention. If it had been an American B, it would have been carried solely on the charms of its leads, and they certainly seem like engaging people with understandable dreams, even if how they achieve them makes little sense.
