A Tokyo CEO trades skyscrapers for surfboards to poach talent from his dead-end hometown.
Kenshi Tokunaga runs an IT company in Tokyo. Due to a big company, he has a hard time in hiring engineers. He decides to find engineers for his company in his hometown of Minami, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan.
Acting
Sekiguchi Tomohiro plays desperation with weirdly charming optimism.
Cinematography
Tokushima coast looks so good you'll Google flight prices.
Director
Tomoyuki Akaishi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tokushima's Minami region is real-deal rural Japan—aging population, shuttered shops, the works. The film mirrors actual 'hometown tax' programs trying to reverse urban migration.
Director Tomoyuki Akaishi cast actual local surfers as extras; several 'engineers' in the final beach scene are real Minami residents who'd never acted before.
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