Completed - JAPANESE - Black comedy - 144 minutes
Year of production : 2008 Director(s) : Hiroyuki NAKAO Writer(s) : Hiroyuki NAKAO Cast : Keisuke KOIDE, Hiroki KONNO, Katsuya KOBAYASHI, Kyusaku SHIMADA, Mai TAKAHASHI Producer(s) : Hisayoshi OKAJIMA, Masatatsu IZUMITANI, Takayoshi TAKEUCHI
Job-hunting is the fiercest battle in Japan, where 80% of workers are salarymen. In this war, you may need to deceive yourself sometimes and follow job-hunting manuals. Your résumé passes and you pass written exams and interviews. Luckily you get a position and a happy ending...not! Ahead of you awaits the life of a salaryman, which is even tougher than job-hunting. You live at the mercy of company politics, forced to fulfill your assignments, hounded by deadlines—and eventually the life grinds you down to a cog in the machine and it will all seem normal to you. But after watching the movie, a big question will occur to all of us “workers”: “Is this how it’s really supposed to be?”
Country(ies) : JAPAN