Twilight Saloon

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Daisuke Katō

Kibe

Age : 64 | Popularity : 8%

Eijirō Tōno

Onizuka

Age : 86 | Popularity : 3%

Keiko Tsushima

Emy Rosa

Age : 86 | Popularity : 3%

Jun Tatara

Tetsuo Kumishima

Age : 89 | Popularity : 6%

Tetsurō Tamba

Morimoto

Age : 84 | Popularity : 8%

Shigeru Amachi

Age : 54 | Popularity : 3%

Korema Arima

Kozo Taniguchi

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Ureo Egawa

Yamaguchi

Age : 68 | Popularity : 5%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Tomu Uchida
	Assistant Director	Akira Miwa Shigeo Takahashi
Sound	Original Music Composer	Yasushi Akutagawa
Camera	Director of Photography	Rokurô Nishigaki
Writing	Writer	Senzo Nada
Production	Producer	Seiichiro Sakaeda
Art	Art Direction	Toshikazu Ito
Editing	Editor	Hideo Kasama
Department	Role	Name

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