A cursed ring, five desperate men, and one woman who just wanted peace and quiet.
Eiko Akimori is a 23-year-old woman who lives alone in an apartment. One day, Eiko is made to buy a big stone ring that brings happiness from a catch sales on the way home from work.
Acting
Kumiko Aso's deadpan exhaustion anchors the madness.
Writing
Satirical script that weaponizes rom-com tropes.
Direction
Kamon's controlled chaos keeps absurdity grounded.
Director
Ikuo Kamon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kenji Sawada, playing desperate businessman Enomoto, was a 1970s Japanese pop idol known as 'Julie' — casting him as a pathetic middle-aged suitor was deliberate generational irony.
The film satirizes Japan's 1990s 'konkatsu' (marriage hunting) phenomenon, where single women faced intense social pressure to settle — Eiko's resistance reads as quiet rebellion.
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