This masterpiece, overflowing with wisdom, represents the "Kihachi touch". Even for lead actor Kobayashi Keiju, this film has become exemplary among his variety of performances. Eburi, while drunk, declares that he would write something for a magazine. Once sober, he writes a novella using himself as a model … Utilizing the essay-style storytelling of the original story, and with audacious editing to insert sequences of animation, the film skillfully describes the everyday life of an ordinary salaryman with a comical pace. Within the framework of "Salaryman Comedies", Toho’s specialty of the time, Okamoto expressed the scars of World War II at every turn.
Production: Toho, Tokyo
Screenplay: Die Toshiro, based on a novel by Yamaguchi Hitomi
Cinematographer: Murai Hiroshi
Editor: Kuroiwa Yoshitami
Cast: Kobayashi Keiju, Aratama Michiyo, Yokoyama Michiyo, Nakamura Tadao, Jerry Ito
Format: 35mm, Cinemascope, black and white
Running time: 102 Minutes
Language: Japanese
Photo: © 1963 TOHO Co., Ltd.
Text: Morimune Atsuko, catalog TOKYO FILMeX 2006
