Tipsy Life

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Musei Tokugawa

Age : 77 | Popularity : 3%

Dekao Yokoo

Age : 56 | Popularity : 3%

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Age : N/A | Popularity : 20%

Hisao Yoshitani

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Kamatari Fujiwara

Age : 80 | Popularity : 5%

Ryûtarô Nakane

Age : 42 | Popularity : 4%

Sadao Maruyama

Age : 44 | Popularity : 5%

Roppa Furukawa

Age : 57 | Popularity : 4%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Sotoji Kimura
Camera	Director of Photography	Hiroshi Suzuki
Writing	Screenplay	Keiji Matsuzaki
Sound	Sound Recordist	Tsunaji Ichikawa
Editing	Editor	Mikiya Tachibana
Department	Role	Name

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