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

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.

upbeatfunwhimsicallightheartedcomedicmusicalplayfulnostalgic

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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