A lovesick genius weaponizes corporate chaos to win his dream girl. What could go wrong?
Fujishima Hiroshi (Kyu Sakamoto), a born "genius of mischief," joins a trading company in order to meet Nakahara Michiko (Kayama Yoshiko), a girl he has admired since his student days. However, he competes with his rival Kono (Tani Kanichi) to beat Michiko, and uses all sorts of business tactics to climb the corporate ladder in this salaryman screwball comedy.
Acting
Kyu Sakamoto's kinetic, rubber-faced physical comedy carries every scene
Score
Sakamoto's own music woven into the narrative with surprising sweetness
Costume
Peak 1960s salaryman fashion and geisha glamour collide beautifully
Director
Kazui Nihonmatsu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kyu Sakamoto was already Japan's biggest pop star thanks to 'Sukiyaki' (1963), making this his attempt to pivot into film stardom. The studio basically said 'sing, dance, be funny, we don't care how.'
This captures the exact moment Japan's 'salaryman' archetype crystallized in pop culture—endless competition, corporate loyalty as personality, and the desperate search for meaning outside work through romance.
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