Corporate ladder-climbing meets matchmaker chaos in 1960s Japan's sharpest office satire.
Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with an academic over a business heir.
Acting
Hisaya Morishige's exasperated executive is peak comedic timing.
Production
Lavish 1960s corporate Japan aesthetics, all mahogany and tension.
Director
Toshio Sugie
Hisaya Morishige
Shirō Sawamura
Daisuke Katō
Kumakichi Onizuka
Keiju Kobayashi
Namikichi Yashiro
Michiyo Aratama
Akiko Hakoda
Kumi Mizuno
Rimiko Miyaguchi
Izumi Yukimura
Maiko Yashiro
Chōko Iida
Shirō's Mother
Chieko Naniwa
Tsuruko Miyaguchi
Ureo Egawa
President Sakaguchi
Rikie Sanjō
Mrs. Sakaguchi
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Asako Onizuka
Yū Fujiki
Tadao Minagawa
Kyōko Mine
Keiko Kosuge
Akira Kubo
Norio Fujisawa
Mie Hama
Yōko Fujisawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Toho's 'Third Class Executive' series satirizing Japan's post-war salaryman culture and corporate arranged marriages.
Kumi Mizuno was Toho's rising star; this role bridged her innocent ingenue phase and later femme fatale era.
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