One lie to an ex snowballs into a quarter-life crisis you can't look away from.
Toru Nakanishi is in his third year at a university. He lies to his ex-girlfriend Mami Higashiyama that he is trying to get a job at a top advertising agency.
Acting
Soejima's cringe-perfect anxiety as the lie unravels.
Writing
Dialogue that captures Japanese hiring hell with painful accuracy.
Director
Hiroki Inoue
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The '1 in 400,000' title references the brutal odds of landing elite corporate jobs in Japan's competitive shūshoku katsudō system.
Director Hiroki Inoue based Toru's spiral on real recruitment scandals where candidates fabricated offers to save face.
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