Closing Time

Running 1h 21m and made in Japan, Closing Time (1996) is a film in the 123movies catalog. The cast includes Sanshō Shinsui and Takeo Nakahara; Masahiro Kobayashi directs. 4 votes put it at 5.5/10. A down-and-out scriptwriter spends his days and nights in the bars of Tokyo. When he is thrown out of a joint because it is closing time, there is always a willing lady to spend the rest of the night with. In the street he has countless semi-philosophical discussions with fellow drinkers, male and female, (shot in black-and-white, as prologue to the different chapters) but in the end it often comes down to one thing: the bottle of whisky that has to be finished. An encounter with a homeless young man with AIDS marks a turning point in the life of the writer.