Twilight Saloon backdrop
Twilight Saloon poster
Trailer
Twilight Saloon
8.0
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1h 34m
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1955
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Released
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.

Cast
Isamu Kosugi poster
Isamu Kosugi
Moichiro Umeda
Hiroshi Ono poster
Hiroshi Ono
Kinya Eto
Takuya Miyahara poster
Takuya Miyahara
Kenichi Maruyama
Korema Arima poster
Korema Arima
Kozo Taniguchi
Jun Tatara poster
Jun Tatara
Tetsuo Kumishima
Hitomi Nozoe poster
Hitomi Nozoe
Yuki Noguchi
Keiko Tsushima poster
Keiko Tsushima
Emy Rosa
Minoru Takada poster
Minoru Takada
Ryusuke Nakakoji
Eijirō Tōno poster
Eijirō Tōno
Onizuka
Daisuke Katō poster
Daisuke Katō
Kibe
Tetsuro Tamba poster
Tetsuro Tamba
Morimoto
Ken Utsui poster
Ken Utsui
Masumi
Ureo Egawa poster
Ureo Egawa
Yamaguchi
Akira Nakamura poster
Akira Nakamura
Taga
Shigeru Amachi poster
Shigeru Amachi
Ichiro Kodama poster
Ichiro Kodama
Natsuko Okazaki poster
Natsuko Okazaki
Sakutarō Yamakawa poster
Sakutarō Yamakawa

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