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Closing Time (1962)

Closing Time poster
Original title
閉店時間
Directed by
Umetsugu Inoue
Genre
drama
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 39m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three young women who became friends after starting work at a Tokyo department store navigate their different views on love and life. One believes in equality with men, one seeks fulfillment through domesticity, and one enjoys free-spirited romance after work hours.

lightheartedbittersweetromanticlife-affirmingnostalgicpoignantslice-of-lifeeasygoing

What happens

『閉店時間』(へいてんじかん)は、1962年4月18日に公開された日本映画。カラー・シネマスコープ。同時上映は『座頭市物語』。 紀美子、節子、サユリの三人は、同じ高校から東京のデパートへ入社した仲良し。職場は違うが、休憩時間を利用してはお互いの悩みを話し合うのだった。真面目だが勝気な紀美子は、女性は男性と対等でなければならないと信じている。 家庭的な節子は、生活の充実を漠然と求めて働いている。サユリは恋愛を自由に楽しむ主義で、閉店時間になると派手な化粧をして夜の街へとび出す。そんな三者三様の恋愛が進んでいく。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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