1957 · comedy · period
Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate
Directed by Yūzō Kawashima1h 50m1957
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
Our read: Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · period entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / period, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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