Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school classmate Haruhiko Gyoten. A big crisis then occurs for them.
Acting
Eita and Matsuda's toxic best-friend chemistry
Direction
Ōmori's ability to find warmth in desperation
Writing
Dialogue that hurts and entertains simultaneously
Director
Tatsushi Ōmori
Eita Nagayama
Keisuke Tada
Ryuhei Matsuda
Haruhiko Gyoten
Kengo Kora
Ryoichi Hoshi
Yoko Maki
Asako Kashiwagi
Manami Honjo
Nagiko Mitsumine
Tomoko Naraoka
Kikuko Soneda
Hirofumi Arai
Kozo Iijima
Masaki Miura
Detective Yoshimura
Yuki Furukawa
Detective Sawada
Shima Onishi
Tsutsui
Kota Yokoyama
Yura
Shingo Mizusawa
Watanabe
Miwako Ichikawa
Saki Nishijima
Suzuki Matsuo
Shin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Tatsushi Ōmori and star Eita previously collaborated on 'The Ravine of Goodbye'—this reunion lets them weaponize their shared darkness for comedy.
The 'benriya' profession peaked in 1990s Japan as economic collapse created niche problem-solving economies; the film uses this decayed institution to examine modern masculine failure.
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