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Bitter End of a Sweet Night

Bitter End of a Sweet Night (Japanese: 甘い夜の果て, romanized: Amai yoru no hate) is a 1961 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida.[1][2][3]

Bitter End of a Sweet Night
甘い夜の果て
Directed byYoshishige Yoshida
Written by
  • Yoshishige Yoshida
  • Yoichi Maeda
Produced byTakeshi Sasaki
Starring
CinematographyTōichirō Narushima
Edited byYoshi Sugihara
Music byHikari Hayashi
Production
company
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • 14 February 1961 (1961-02-14) (Japan)[1]
Running time
85 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Plot edit

Young shop clerk Jirō is eager to climb the social ladder, an aim for which he uses and manipulates everyone around him. He talks diner waitress Harumi into moving into his flat and introduces her to bar madam Soko, who pays him for his mediation. While Harumi is reluctant to Jirō's advances, she eventually agrees to Soko's plan to have refinery owner Hondo act as her patron and pay for an apartment for her. Jirō has affairs both with Soko and Masae, the widowed daughter-in-law of foundry owner Oka, whom he intends to marry for her money. When Hondo buys Oka out of his heavily indebted company, Masae is left without any assets, and Jirō dumps her. After Harumi dies in a car accident with another lover, Jirō returns to Soko, who bluntly tells him that she will keep him simply as her gigolo and pet, to which he starts laughing hysterically.

Cast edit

  • Masahiko Tsugawa as Jirō Tezuka
  • Teruyo Yamagami as Harumi Nishimoto
  • Sumiko Hidaka as Hisako Nishimoto, Harumi's mother
  • Michiko Saga as Soko Mishima
  • Jun Hamamura as Kenkichi Mishima, Soko's father
  • Osamu Takizawa as Hondo
  • Hiroko Sugita as Masae Oka
  • Takamaru Sasaki as Tokusaburo Oka, Masae's father-in-law

Home media edit

Bitter End of a Sweet Night was released on DVD in France in 2008[4] and in Japan in 2013[5] as part of DVD boxes with collected works by Yoshida.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "甘い夜の果て (Bitter End of a Sweet Night)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  2. ^ "甘い夜の果て (Bitter End of a Sweet Night)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  3. ^ "甘い夜の果て (Bitter End of a Sweet Night)". Shochiku Home Entertainment (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Oeuvres complètes de Kiju Yoshida - Partie 1 - Une nouvelle vague". Bluray.com. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  5. ^ "吉田喜重DVD-BOX第1集 (Yoshishige Yoshida DVD-Box Vol. 1)". Shochiku Home Entertainment (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 July 2023.

External links edit

Bibliography edit

  • Berra, John (2012). Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2. Bristol: Intellect Books. p. 256. ISBN 978-1-84150551-0.
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