29 minutes to watch a man break. You won't look away.
A Chinese technical intern encountered fraud from the Japan labor Union. At the end of his tether, he resorted to violence.
Acting
Tsuyoshi Abe's restrained performance before the eruption.
Direction
Yaoyuan lets dread build through mundane spaces.
Editing
29 minutes feels like a lifetime of pressure.
Director
Zhang Yaoyuan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Japan's Technical Intern Training Program has faced international criticism for systemic abuse of foreign workers, making this fiction uncomfortably documentary-adjacent.
The title's sports reference becomes bitterly ironic: there's no rest, no second half, only permanent exhaustion.
CN
JP
