Middle-aged dad quits everything to draw comics. What could possibly go wrong? (Everything.)
41-year-old Shizuo Daikoku (Shinichi Tsutsumi) suddenly quits his job at a company to become a mangaka. His family and friends become involved in his new pursuit...
Acting
Tsutsumi's commitment to pathetic dignity is almost heroic.
Writing
Fukuda's script finds poetry in spectacular mediocrity.
Director
Yuichi Fukuda
Shinichi Tsutsumi
Shizuo Ohguro
Ai Hashimoto
Suzuko Ohguro
Renji Ishibashi
Shiro Ohguro
Takayuki Yamada
Shuichi Ichinosawa
Katsuhisa Namase
Osamu Miyata
Gaku Hamada
Masaki Murakami
Miki Mizuno
Osamu Miyata's wife
Rino Sashihara
Aya Unami
Kento Kaku
store manager
Tsuyoshi Muro
real estate agent
Takuji Kawakubo
Tanaka
Yoshikazu Ebisu
Kuni
Hiroyuki Onoue
Hige
Shin Koyanagi
Kurofuku
Toshifumi Muramatsu
Hokuro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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