Nippon musekinin jidai

Nippon musekinin jidai (nitsuponWu Ze Ren Shi Dai , Irresponsible Era of Japan) is a 1962 Japanese comedy film directed by Kengo Furusawa. It became one of the most popular comedic films in Japan with the box office earning around Y=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 ubiquitous face in the 1960s. Some of the first big stars of the new medium of television brought standing-room-only audiences to a cinema in decline. 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.
Overview
This movie was shot in color and cinemascope (TohoScope). The musical themes are "Irresponsible Ichidai Otoko" and "Hello, Until Then". This was the first memorable movie of the Crazy Movie series. The Crazy Cats, which became popular on "Shabontama Holiday" (Nippon TV) at that time, especially Hitoshi Ueki's big hit apperence on "Sudara Bushi". The series involved three main actresses (Sonomi Nakajima, Noriko Shigeyama, Reiko Dan), but it became unexpectedly popular, and 30 more were produced up to "Nippon ichi no shokku otoko" (directed by Takashi Tsuboshima) in 1971. In this play, Yasuo Tanami, who was an employee of the Toho Literature Club at the time, was originally involved in planning the President's Series, wrote the draft of the "Irresponsible Employee" as the antithesis of a loyal member of the company.
They sold it as a project for a movie starring Frankie Sakai, but the idea was scrapped due to poorly script writing, and when he left it as it was, producer Eizaburo Adachi asked Tanami to make a movie named after the success of Crazy Cats' music hit "Sudara Bushi", and he began to write the screenplay. When it was released, it was agreed, and it was a scenario where Crazy Cats members were assigned to act in the film.
Plot
The average Kuchihaccho and Tehaccho (Taira Hitoshi) heard the story of Pacific sake riding in the bar "Madrid". Hitoshi's first job, when he mentioned the name of a senior in his hometown to the president of Pacific Sake and worked in the general affairs department, was to acquire the president of Toyama Shoji, a major shareholder.
Success with a single check. Shimbashi geisha Manmaru is also cholera with his great ability, and promotion to chief of staff is a completely easy business. However, as Mika Tenka often said, Hitoshi was immediately fired when he learned that the kidnapper, Yuto Kuroda, had acquired Toyama's property. Kuroda's brain is Ryosuke Oshima, president of Sankai Foods, but his daughter Yoko ran away with her boyfriend Takasaku Ujiie. By the way, Hitoshi met Kuroda at the new president's inauguration party, but he returned with the outside director due to the skill of the show and the banquet. It is an unfortunate story for employees on the Taihei side that the traditional Pacific sake will become a subsidiary of Sankai Foods.
On the other hand, Kyoko, a geisha, and Aiko, a liquor secretary from the Pacific, ran to Tonton's boarding house and began to guess love. Hitoshi is fluttering with Aiko's fierce kiss. Around this time, Kuroda, who visited the Oshima Residence, cut the story of his daughter Yoko's marriage and discovered that he had a favorite partner, Takasaku Ujiie. Hitoshi's next job is to buy hops from Hokkai Bussan, a Pacific liquor business.
Hitoshi captured the president of the North Sea, Ishikari, who could not eat even if it was boiled or baked, with a pink film and a naked tatami in the room. However, Hitoshi, who simply doesn't wake up when he falls, discovers that Oshima and Kuroda are injured by Yoko's marriage and urges Ujiie's president to return to work, using Yoko's whereabouts as a seed. Who knows that Hitoshi, who appeared in a black tie at the Ujiie and Oshima families' wedding ceremony that day, is the new president of Hokkai Bussan!
Cast
Hitoshi Ueki as Hitoshi Taira (Average salary man & main character)
Hajime Hana as Yusaku Ujiie (President of Pacific Sake)
Kei Tani as General Manager of General Affairs Department Yata (Director of "Pacific Sake")
Sonomi Nakajima as Kyoko Asada (Madam of the "Madrid" Bar)
Noriko Shigeyama as Aiko Sano ("Ohira Western Liquor" President's Secretary)
Reiko Dan as Manmaru (Geisha)
Yoko Fujiyama as Yoko Oshima (daughter of Ryosuke)
Toru Minegishi (credited Kenji Mine) as Takasaku Ujiie (son of Yusaku)
Takashi Inagaki as Uemura (Yoko's matchmaking partner)
Jun Tazaki as Yujin Kuroda (President of "Kuroda Bussan" - New president of "Ohira Yoshu")
Toru Yuri as Kumagoro Ishikari (President of "Hokkaido Bussan")
Tatsuo Matsumura as President Toyama (main shareholder of "Pacific Sake")
Gen Shimizu as Ryosuke Oshima (president of "Sankai Foods")
Asami Kuji as Tokiko Ujiie (Yusaku's wife)
Chieko Nakakita as Sakiko (housewife in a pension)
Hiroshi Inuzuka as Otsuka ("Ohira Western Liquor" employee)
Etaro Ishibashi as Sakura (")
Senri Sakurai as Aoki (")
Shin Yasuda as Yasui (")
Kenzo Tabu as Detective in plain clothes
Akira Hitomi as Kenkichi (pension master)
Hiroyo Miyata as Traffic police officer
Daisuke Inoue as Haruki (bartender)
Shiro Tsuchiya as Uemura's father
Yasuzo Okawa as Driver of President Ujiie
Yaeko Izumo as Apartment neighbor
Hiromi Mineoka as Hana (maid of the Ujiie family)
Yuki Shimizu as Ohira Western liquor employee
Terumi Oka as Employees chasing volleyball
Sumie Miyagawa as Corner of a Cafe Hall
Yutaka Oka as Funeral receptionist
Yasuo Araki as Incense thief
Yoshie Kihira as restaurant lady Nakai
Chie Sugiura as Oshima family maid
Wakako Tanabe as Madrid hostess
Kazuko Ejima as Restaurant costumers
Kazuko Tani as Madrid waitress
Hiromi Terazawa, and Kiyoko Hara as Two geishas
Saburo Kadowaki as Ohira Western Liquor Employee
Eisaburo Komatsu as Man at the station
Kiyoshi Kodama as a Taxi driver (non-credited)
Yoshio Ouchi, Akinori Kuchina, and Yoshio Yasumoto as Takasaku's bandmates
Jun Kuroki as Public bath guest
* Uncredited
Bin Furuya, Haruo Nakajima, Rinsaku Ogata, Junnosuke Suda, Ryutaro Amami, and Keiichiro Katsumoto as Guests of Madrid
Shizuka Yoshida, Kiyoko Tsuji, Reiko Seto, Terumi Hoshi, Junko Ebata, and Kinuko Obata as Female customers at Madrid
Somesho Matsumoto, Soji Ubukata, Shin Otomo, and Kyoro Sakurai as Pacific Sake executives
Shigeki Ishida, Naoya Kusakawa, Kenzo Matsui, and Tatsuhiko Hari as Pacific Sake employees
Minoru Ito, Kazuo Imai, Akira Yamada, Takuya Yuki, Hideo Shibuya, Wataru Omae, and Toku Ihara as Police officers
Hiroshi Takagi, Toshihiko Furuta, Ichiro Shoji, Yukihiko Gondo, Koichi Sato, Kenichiro Maruyama, and Haruo Suzuki as Detectives
Koji Uno as Desk clerk
Jun'ichiro Mukai as Headwaiter
Fuminori Ohashi as Newspaper editor
Shoichi Hirose as Truck driver
Takuzo Kumagai as Finances president
Kenzaburo Osawa as Paperboy
Ikio Sawamura as Streetcleaner
Toyohiko Sata as Noodle chef
Katsumi Tezuka as Police chief
Kenzo Echigo as Doorman
Kuniyoshi Kashima, Shinjiro Hirota, Ichiro Chiba, and Yusuke Suzuki as Guys in the hallway
Saburo Iketani as Newsreader
Shigeo Kato as Janitor
Akira Kitchoji, Keiji Sakakida, Masahide Matsushita, and Keisuke Yamada as Kuroda Bussan executives
Ichiro Chagawa, Toshitsugu Suzuki, and Yasushi Matsubara as Newspaper reporters
Koji Uruki, Nadao Kirino, Fumio Sakashita, and Yasuhiko Saijo as Kuroda Bussan employees
Yuko Shibaki, Toshiko Higuchi, Keiko Yanagawa, and Machiko Kitagawa as Female employees
Fumie Noguchi as Fashion editor
Tomoko Watanabe as Laundry lady
Fujie Satsuki as an Elderly woman
Makiko Takatori as Dance teacher
Keiko Sata as Office worker
Tsurue Ichimanji as Woman next door
Hiroshi Akitsu, Akio Kusama, Junpei Natsuki, Ryoji Shimizu, Kamayuki Tsubono, Shin Yoshida, Michiko Ari, Reiko Hatsune, Mariko Harada, Keiko Muramatsu, Kyoko Komatsu, and Mariko Hasegawa as Party guests
Yasumasa Onishi, Yoshio Katsube, Ikuo Kawamura, Takashi Narita, Jiro Mitsuaki, Mariko Kawauchi, Ruri Asahi, Chiyoko Mizumachi, Keiko Chigusa, Sumiko Minami, Junko Arita, and Masako Fujimura as Bystanders
Staff
Producers: Eizaburo Adachi, Shin Watanabe (entertainment producer)
Executive Producer: Shin Morita
Screenwriters: Hiroshi Matsuki (screenplay), Yasuo Tanami (screenplay)
Director: Kengo Furusawa
Cinematographer: Takao Saito
Music Composer: Yoshiyuki Kozu, Hiroaki Hagiwara (music arrangement), Yukio Aoshima (songwriter)
Production Designer: Kazuo Ogawa
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: Yoshimitsu Banno (second assistant director), Masanobu Deme (third assistant director, Ken Sano (chief assistant director)
Sound Department: Akira Saito (sound recordist), Hisashi Shimonaga (sound effects editor)
Stunt Coordinator: Ryu Kuze
Photographer: Masao Soeda
Theme songs / Insert songs
All the lyrics are written by Yukio Aoshima and composed by Hiroaki Hagiwara.
Skinny Manbushi (yasegamanJie , Yase gaman-bushi)
An original movie song is played when Hitoshi goes to the Ujiie family at night. Later sung in "Sudara Gaiden". In the trailer, it was "Skinny Manbushi", but in the OP credit, it was written as "Skinny Patience Bushi".
Don't Clause (dontoJie , Donto-bushi)
Hitoshi, who went to the Ujiie family, robs Takasaku of his guitar and sings.
Sudara Section (sudaraJie , Sudara-bushi)
Use number 2. After returning to the boarding house, Hitoshi throws out the betting ticket while climbing the stairs and sings while cleaning his suit.
Fifty Thousand Verses (Wu Mo Jie , 50, 000-Setsu)
Hitoshi, who saw a pair of Takasaku and Yoko at the bar, muttered, "Well, when I was a student," and first sang one phrase with a cappella, followed by a shout of "Ah, that!" With BGM, and was a guest at the same bar. Sing with Otsuka, Sakura, Aoki and Yasui. All lyrics are movie originals.
Hello, Until Then (haisoremadeyo, Haisoremade~yo)
Hitoshi sings at the inaugural meeting of President Kuroda, and Otsuka, Sakura, Aoki, and Yasui act as back dancers. He used No. 1 and No. 3, but the lyrics have changed in the latter half of both. At first glance, it seems to be a stage, but in fact, it is a production peculiar to the Furusawa movie, that is, at the inaugural meeting.
In the trailer, it is "High Until Then", but in the opening credit is written as "High Until Then".
Irresponsible First Generation Man (Wu Ze Ren Yi Dai Nan , Musekinin ichidaiotoko)
The theme song of this work. It was played twice in total, and the second time, Hitoshi sang instead of congratulations at the wedding ceremony of Takasaku and Yoko, and Otsuka, Sakura, Aoki, and Yasui danced.
Location
Sarugaku Bridge
In front of Ebisu station
Ebisu Station South
Daiwa Securities Co.Ltd. HQ (Used for the "Pacific Sake" building. A familiar place in the "Shacho Series")
Yokohama Prince Hotel (used for Takasaku and Yoshiko's wedding ceremony)
Hibiya Park
Aoyama Funeral Hall
Benkei Horibata
Sukiyabashi Intersection
Simultaneous screening
"Kigeki ekimae onsen" (Xi Ju Yi Qian Wen Quan , Comedy Station Square Hot Spring)
Screenplay: Kihan Nagase / Director: Seiji Hisamatsu / Starring: Hisaya Morishige / Distributor: Tokyo Eiga Co., Ltd.
The fourth installment of the "Ekimae Series". Since then, Industrial Spy Free for All (directed by Takashi Tsuboshima), "Mahjong Madness" will be coupled eight times in total with the Crazy Movie and "Ekimae Series".