Nishi Ginza Station
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- Aug 12, 2023
Part of my Japanese New Wave Top 200 The second film directed by Shôhei Imamura (and one of three films he made in 1958!) is a short and charming comedy, quickly forgotten after the end credits have rolled but enjoyable enough while it lasts. Imamura’s socio-political…
DanielSep 28, 2015Review In A Nutshell: Nishi Ginza Station opens and develops in a manner that recalls the 1955 feature from Billy Wilder, The Seven Year Itch, depicting the fragility of the modern day husband, bottling a great abundance of angst that have reached far its limit, spilling…
feedingbrettMar 23, 2022A comical not-quite-fable about a salaryman's desire to paper over his feelings of Man in the Gray Flannel Suit alienation by having an affair and the hallucinatory circumstances that see his wildest dreams manifest. This doesn't really hang together even at its trim…
Jake Cole - Jul 15, 2016
Imamura's irreverence to taboo and classical filmmaking are applied to an overtly comedic narrative in Nishi Ginza Station. Jokes about castration and constipation are cleverly at odds with the film's intentionally naive design. The style sways from Chaplin-esque…
Zach AMay 5, 2023An odd little movie. Not particularly amazing, but under an hour and quirky. Oyama (Shinichi Yanagisasa) is an aloof man with an overbearing wife. When she goes on vacation, Oyama’s womanizing friend (Ko Nishimura, giving the film’s best performance) encourages him to have…
Pachinko PopMay 7, 2021This is only the second film from Shohei Imamura and there is no indication that I noticed that would foretell his later experimental edgy films as part of the Japanese New Wave. Earlier he has assisted Ozu on a few of his films but I don't see much of that here either.…
BrianNaas - May 2, 2019
Generic comedy writing, blaming the boredom of middle-class monotony on women, and giving the alienated salaryman an out in daydreams about an imperialist fantasyland, complete with blackface 'natives,' that seems to comment obliquely on veterans' lived experience of WWII.…
Lencho of the ApesDec 4, 2016Early Imamura. Uneven, out of control, but full of inventive touches.
Filipe FurtadoFeb 18, 2020Surprisingly dull film from Imamura - post-war mess about identity; men returning from war not as patriarchal kings but kinda pathetic and castrated. There are dark undertones to this and it admirably focuses on the fact that it should be high time for men to adapt to the…
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