Shuichi and Rina are a twenty-something couple living together. Shuichi is working as a fiction editor for a book publisher, while Rina is unemployed, since she finds it hard to keep a job. When Shuichi's colleague runs away because of their terrible boss, Shuichi suddenly gets reassigned to work with Nishikawa, a stuck-up author who writes banal but popular self-help books. Rina gets hired to be his editor by complete chance, since Nishikawa ends up liking her out-of-the-box thinking. When Rina starts to succeed while Shuichi struggles, the problems in their relationship start to become apparent.
Acting
Kuroba's simmering resentment never boils—just festers.
Direction
Yamaguchi frames domestic spaces like psychological battlegrounds.
Writing
The self-help parodies cut deeper than the drama.
Director
Kento Yamaguchi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Post-bubble Japan's 'employment ice age' generation haunts every frame—Shuichi's publishing job security is itself a fading relic.
Director Yamaguchi cast actual publishing industry temps in background roles; their real resignation letters inspired dialogue.
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