Tasogare - The Tender Throbbing Twilight

Imaoka’s new fi lm, Tasogare (Twilight), has the same sort of down-to-earth ambience, shrewd humor and lovable but hopelessly horny hero as in Uncle’s Paradise. But the story, about two former classmates – now in their 60s – who are enjoying a more-than nostalgic reunion, is also tenderly insightful into the realities and joys of old love. – – the persistence of Eros to the end is a human fact, but a social – and cinematic – taboo, one of the last ones to exist. Imaoka, who knows the erotic the way a plumber knows pipes, breaks it with an ironic, casual shrug and a sharp, knowing eye.
– MARK SCHILLING, JAPAN TIMES