Tipsy Life

Tipsy Life (1933)


  • Genre: Music, Drama, Comedy
  • Release Date: 1933-05-04
  • Runtime: 1h 17min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Shahin Kagaku Production
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Sotoji Kimura

Summary

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.

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  • Musei Tokugawa

    as
  • Dekao Yokoo

    as
  • Heihachirō Ōkawa

    as
  • Hisao Yoshitani

    as
  • Kamatari Fujiwara

    as
  • Ryûtarô Nakane

    as
  • Sadao Maruyama

    as
  • Roppa Furukawa

    as
  • Sachiko Chiba

    as
  • Shirô Ôtsuji

    as
  • Tokio Seki

    as Asao's father
Directing Sotoji Kimura Director
Camera Hiroshi Suzuki Director of Photography
Editing Mikiya Tachibana Editor
Sound Tsunaji Ichikawa Sound Recordist
Writing Keiji Matsuzaki Screenplay
Production Iwao Mori Producer
Sound Kyōsuke Kami Original Music Composer
Sound Kiyosuke Kanetsune Original Music Composer
Sound Ryozo Okuda Original Music Composer
Sound Shimeka Asakusa Vocals
Writing Ryuko Matsuzaki Lyricist
Writing Musei Tokugawa Lyricist
Directing Shuzo Takiguchi Script Supervisor
Lighting Kuichirô Kishida Lighting Technician

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