Twilight Saloon
たそがれ酒場
Twilight Saloon On Soap2Day. 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.
- Genre: Drama
- Country: Japan
- Director: Tomu Uchida
- Cast: Isamu Kosugi, Hiroshi Ono, Takuya Miyahara, Korema Arima, Jun Tatara, Hitomi Nozoe, Keiko Tsushima, Minoru Takada, Eijirō Tōno, Daisuke Katō, Tetsuro Tamba, Ken Utsui, Ureo Egawa, Akira Nakamura, Shigeru Amachi, Ichiro Kodama, Natsuko Okazaki, Sakutarō Yamakawa,
