An excellent movie about a "typical" Japanese family living the middle class life. Great insight into Japanese housing and lifestyle in Tokyo. Shows what lack of zoning laws can create. More important, this movie is instantly translatable to American social problems created by unemployment and workers not being prepared for economic changes.
From NETFLIX: From Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa comes a drama about the Sasakis, an ordinary Japanese family living a bucolic life -- until the father is abruptly laid off from his job and decides to keep the news from his wife and kids. Soon, the father's sense of shame, and the indignity he faces while passing each day in the park in his suit and tie, quickly turns into a rage that proves to hold irrevocable consequences for all concerned.A review from Rotten Tomatoes: The film in many ways is the bleakest indictment of contemporary Japanese culture I've seen. Yet it also functions as dark comedy, fierce character study and uplifting tale of redemption.
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