A fishmonger-to-be, a beer heiress, and enough chaos to make your resume look sane.
A university graduate determined to become a fishmonger defies his mother's wishes, tangles with bar hostesses and a beer company heiress, and—after misunderstandings, brawls, and a second chance—discovers that maybe the salaryman life isn’t so bad after all.
Acting
Keiju Kobayashi's elastic face carries every humiliation with comic dignity.
Direction
Maruyama's rapid-fire staging keeps 89 minutes feeling like a breathless farce.
Director
Seiji Maruyama
Keiju Kobayashi
Isshin Tarō
Daisuke Katō
Ōkubo Hikosaburō
Yasuko Nakada
Murayama Fujiko
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Iemitsu Kazuo
Kumi Mizuno
Natsukawa Yumiko
Sadako Sawamura
Okane
Chieko Naniwa
Natsukawa Chiyo
Shin Morikawa
Natsukawa Shinsuke
Sachio Sakai
Company Employee
Kan Yanagiya
Shimizu, Personnel Section Chief
Bokuzen Hidari
University Staff
Kokinji Katsura
Senzō
Zeko Nakamura
Kinai Sasao
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures 1960 Japan's salaryman emergence—the 'new middle class' abandoning family trades for corporate security, treated here with satirical affection rather than critique.
Keiju Kobayashi was Toho's everyman king; this role typecast him so hard he played variations of beleaguered strivers for two decades.
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