Twilight Saloon (たそがれ酒場) 69 years old

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.

Credits

Twilight Saloon Cast

Name Character
Daisuke Katô as Kibe
Keiko Tsushima She was 29, 86 years old when she died as Emy Rosa
Shigeru Amachi He was 24, 54 years old when he died
Jun Tatara He was 37, 89 years old when he died as Tetsuo Kumishima
Ken Utsui He was 23, 82 years old when he died as Masumi
Akira Nakamura as Taga
Eijirō Tōno He was 48, 87 years old when he died as Onizuka
Tetsurō Tamba He was 32, 84 years old when he died as Morimoto
Minoru Takada He was 55, 78 years old when he died as Ryusuke Nakakoji
Isamu Kosugi He was 51, 79 years old when he died as Moichiro Umeda
Ureo Egawa He was 53, 68 years old when he died as Yamaguchi

Twilight Saloon Crew

Name Department
Tomu Uchida as Director. He was 57 (72) years old when He died Directing
Yasushi Akutagawa as Original Music Composer. He was 30 (64) years old when He died Sound
Rokurô Nishigaki as Director of Photography. Camera
Twilight Saloon poster
Twilight Saloon (69 years)

  • Release day: Sunday, June 19, 1955
  • Runtime: 94 minutes