Acting
Hisaya Morishige's Personnel Chief: perfectly pathetic middle-management energy.
Direction
Yamamoto's comic timing shaped by decades at Toho.
Director
Masahisa Sunohara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Japan's post-war economic boom, the film satirizes the rigid 'salaryman' hierarchy that would define corporate culture for decades.
Co-director Kajirō Yamamoto mentored Akira Kurosawa; this workplace comedy shares DNA with Kurosawa's later bureaucratic satires like 'Ikiru.'
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