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Mitsuko Kusabue (草笛光子)

What Happened to Our Nest Egg!?

老後の資金がありません！

  • Comedy
  • Human
    •  

115 min

The 2015 best-seller novel by Miu Kakiya has been adapted to film by director Tetsu Maeda (“A Banana? At This Time of Night?”). As of April, 2020, the book has sold over 260,000 copies.
In Japan, it is said you need 20 million yen saved up for retirement. Though everyone has their worries about the future, not many openly talk about it. This film comically depicts this problem through the eyes of a respectable-looking family that’s actually a bit dysfunctional.

The main character, Atsuko, is your average housewife who believes in frugality. She has a husband, Akira, who’s quite clueless about the family budget, a daughter who works part-time, and a son in college. Though Atsuko had been saving up for retirement, she gets in an argument with her sister-in-law and her husband one day, and she ends up having to pay 4 million yen for her father-in-law’s funeral. As if that’s not enough, her husband’s company goes bankrupt, she gets fired from her part-time job, her daughter wishes for a lavish wedding with her fiancé who’s in a heavy metal band, and her big-spending mother-in-law moves in. The family’s savings dwindle by the day.
Problems between husband and wife, parent and child, wife and mother-in-law, a child’s marriage, a child moving out, caring for a parent, and funerals… These are all problems that everyone faces. As the family is hit by one dilemma after another, they struggle and torment themselves in order to overcome adversity.

Et Alors

エ･アロール～それがどうしたの～ 　　隨性生活

  • Comedy
  • Human
  • Romance
    •  

90 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 10 eps.｜11 episodes

The Villa Et Alors is a stylish retirement that allows its residents a great amount of freedom in living their lives. Maybe too much freedom! Takafumi Kurusu, a doctor, who has taken over management of the villa following his father’s death, has his hands full fielding the various romantic problems of the residents. The villa’s resident playboy is jumping from woman to woman. A female resident has fallen in love with the villa’s young physiotherapist and when Kurusu tries to dissuade her he suddenly finds himself the object of her affections! Exhausted by his charges, Kurusu grumbles to his longtime girlfriend about the residents at home, but soon finds them influencing his life in more ways than he imagined!