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The imperial family holds less sway over Japanese society than the average salaryman, who at least can vote in elections.
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Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025
Across a 45-year career in cinema, Yakusho has worked with every major Japanese director of his generation and inhabited over 80 characters, spanning salarymen, samurai, gangsters, cops, seducers and everymen of all stripes.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2025
The imagery is intended to mock and reflect modern Japan in some way — from the overworked salarymen gleefully staging suicidal leaps off of buildings to the schoolgirls (who, in the dream, have cell phones for heads) exposing themselves to perverts (who also have cell phones for heads).
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2024
Our hapless salaryman protagonist wakes up to find a metal screw protruding from his cheek.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
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Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025
Across a 45-year career in cinema, Yakusho has worked with every major Japanese director of his generation and inhabited over 80 characters, spanning salarymen, samurai, gangsters, cops, seducers and everymen of all stripes.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2025
The imagery is intended to mock and reflect modern Japan in some way — from the overworked salarymen gleefully staging suicidal leaps off of buildings to the schoolgirls (who, in the dream, have cell phones for heads) exposing themselves to perverts (who also have cell phones for heads).
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2024
Our hapless salaryman protagonist wakes up to find a metal screw protruding from his cheek.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
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“Salaryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salaryman. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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