Nippon Musekinin Jidai (1962)
- Original title
- ニッポン無責任時代
- Directed by
- Kengo Furusawa
- Genre
- musical film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A salaryman goofs off at work and always comes out ahead, bursting into folk-inflected songs and dance. This 1962 Japanese comedy features the Crazy Cats jazz band and Hitoshi Ueki. It became a popular film during Japan's high economic growth.
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What happens
Nippon musekinin jidai (ニッポン無責任時代, Irresponsible Era of Japan) is a 1962 Japanese comedy film directed by Kengo Furusawa. It became one of the most popular comedy films in Japan with the box office earning around ¥350 million ($3,343,567.50 in US dollar). The Crazy Cats comic jazz band and their featured singer Hitoshi Ueki did not invent the local genre of the "salaryman" comedy but they were its face in the 1960s. This film established Ueki's comic persona as a salaryman who would goof off at work and yet somehow always come out ahead, every so often bursting into one of his well-known Japanese folk-inflected songs while dancing something like the twist. The first in a series of "Irresponsible" films whose comic songs formed the soundtrack of Japan's high economic growth. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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