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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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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1933-05-04
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- timer Runtime: 77 Mins
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Musei Tokugawa
Dekao Yokoo
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Hisao Yoshitani
Kamatari Fujiwara
Ryûtarô Nakane
Sadao Maruyama
Roppa Furukawa
Sachiko Chiba
Shirô Ôtsuji
Tokio Seki
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Sotoji Kimura
Director
Hiroshi Suzuki
Director of Photography
Tsunaji Ichikawa
Sound Recordist
Mikiya Tachibana
Editor
Keiji Matsuzaki
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