Somebody

If anyone is interested in how the hiring process and job hunting works in Japan, especially for young people, I think this is the perfect film. Not only does it show an entire job search culture that is unimaginable to us, where it's not unusual to put in a lot of legwork, but it also portrays what it does to relationships between people who are essentially competitors and rivals. Do we wish them well? Laugh behind their backs? Lie to cut the biggest slice? Pure drama, well acted, well spoken, well shot, and yet without an unnecessarily long running time. This is a film worth seeing. And I haven't even mentioned that it features stars of their time who are only just out of high school roles. (17/04/2017)