exploring the arcade いい湯だな全員集合!! (1969) aka Ii yu dana zenin shûgô!! (What a nice bath, everyone gather round!!)

This appears to be the same style of shooting gallery as in our last arcade exploration (exploring the arcade in 関東テキヤ一家 喧嘩火祭り(1971) aka Kantô Tekiya ikka: Goromen himatsuri (Kanto Tekiya Family Fighting Fire Festival)) plus there is also a row of smartball tables.  

This film anchors the globe shooting gallery to 1969, but it might be from earlier in the 1960s.

いい湯だな全員集合!! (1969)

 

 

When the camera shifts, we get to see a lineup of Smart Ball tables.

Zooming in:

I have not seen this style of Smart Ball table before.  It appears to have an automatic payout mechanism in the back box, with a visible row of balls presumably ejected from that yellow-ish flap at the front of the backbox.

 

The movie also spends a bunch of time around a coin-operated massage chair.

I bring this up because Kansai Seiki also made coin-operated massage chairs back in the 1960s.  Though the examples of their chairs are quite different design.

あんま椅子 (massage chair)

 

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