Japan / 2017 / DCP / Colour / 127min
Izuru NARUSHIMA
Izuru Narushima was born in 1961 in
Yamanashi prefecture. He is very good at adapting stories, such as The Eighth
Day by Mitsuyo Kakuta and Solomon's Perjury by Miyuki Miyabe. He was also the
screenplay writer and film director of A Chair on the Plains, and the
screenplay writer of The Brain Man.
The adaption play of To Each His Own is
written by Narushima. The story reminds him of his close friend who didn’t find
any help but chose to end his own life. Therefore Narushima decided to serve as
the film director of the film to encourage people help each other.
Synopsis
The salesman Takashi Aoyama (Asuka Kudo) is
a new hire of a company. He arrive at 8:35 and leave at 21:15. No matter how
hard he works, the pay is never raised. However, if the number of sales does
not increase, his boss will rip him into pieces and force him to do long hours
of “voluntary” (unpaid) overtime. Saturday working overtime become a routine
for Aoyama. Even Sunday his boss will call him for work. Finally deciding that
life is not worth living, Aoyama is about to fall into the path of a speeding
train when he is rescued by a tall, lanky guy named Yamamoto (Sota Fukushi), he
claims to be Aoyama’s long-lost classmate. Surprisingly, after meeting
Yamamoto, everything goes on smoothly and things are getting better. Who is
this mysterious Yamamoto?
