The accountant Taddei, an employee of an import company, travels to Tokyo for work and discovers that the colleague he has replaced has married a Japanese woman. His journey to the Far East brings him into contact with situations of extreme poverty that will deeply disturb him.
Acting
Moschin's deadpan breakdown is criminally underrated.
Direction
Polidoro juggles comedy and despair without dropping either.
Cinematography
Tokyo neon vs. poverty — the contrast stings.
Director
Gian Luigi Polidoro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare 1960s Italian cinema engaging with Japan beyond exoticism, reflecting Italy's own postwar economic anxieties.
Gastone Moschin later played the undertaker in The Godfather — this is his secret masterpiece.
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