A bumbling president, geishas, and corporate warfare—1960s Japanese comedy at its chaotic best.
While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key overseas client, only to face setbacks both in work and in the personal affairs of his team.
Acting
Hisaya Morishige's elastic-faced presidential meltdowns.
Production
Lush 1963 color photography of Kyushu locations.
Writing
Razor-sharp corporate satire disguised as farce.
Director
Toshio Sugie
Hisaya Morishige
Heitarō Dōmoto (President)
Daisuke Katō
Genkichi Yamanaka (Sales Director)
Keiju Kobayashi
Susumu Kimura (Chief Secretary)
Izumi Yukimura
Katsuko Ueno (Secretary)
Mie Hama
Geisha Ponta
Frankie Sakai
Willie Tanaka (Jupiter Secretary)
Norihei Miki
Hisakazu Tago (Kyushu Branch Manager)
Yōko Fujiyama
Tamie Ōura
Keiko Awaji
Renko (Madam of Club Marilyn)
Mitsuko Kusabue
Geisha Tōryū
Seizaburō Kawazu
Gondō (Tōzai Paint Executive)
Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Shūji (Kanako's Husband)
Machiko Naka
Kanako (Heitarō’s Daughter)
Yuriko Hanabusa
Tetsu Kimura (Susumu’s Mother)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is the second of four films in the 'Company President' series, all starring Morishige as the same lovably inept executive.
Mie Hama appears here just two years before her international breakthrough as Kissy Suzuki in You Only Live Twice.
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