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The British director Sean McAllister films himself while running. Panting, he tells us that he has spent almost two years in Japan now and is gradually going crazy, because he just can't get through to the closed country and its people. Until he meets Naoki, a 56-year-old part-time mailman who symbolises the tens of thousands of Japanese who belong to the "working poor" a subclass that has ...
It is also possible to buy "Japan: A Story of Love and Hate" on Amazon Video, DocAlliance Films as download or rent it on Amazon Video, DocAlliance Films online. Synopsis. Naoki once had it all - the fast car, the executive home. Boss of his own business he lived the good-life when Japan's economy was at it's height.
31 de mar. de 2009 · Naoki lives in his girlfriend Yoshie’s tiny flat, earns £3.50 an hour and relies on her for handouts. Yoshie has three jobs, spends her evenings entertaining “clients” in sushi bars, and brings home £11,000 a year. This is the life of Japan’s “working poor”. She takes a “calm down” pill every night; he thinks of suicide.
56-year-old Naoki once had it all, living good-life when Japan's economy was at it's height. But after the bubble burst, he lost everything. Then he met Yoshie. This documentary tells an unusual love story of survival in the world's second richest economy.
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"Japan: A Story of Love and Hate" follows a 58-year-old postal worker living on the poverty line. The film questions how the quality of life could be so miserable in "the world's second-richest country" (even though Japan had the world's second-largest economy at the time of the production, according to the CIA World Factbook, Japan ranks 28th in GDP per capita).
Wow. This stands alongside Jake Clennell's incredible The Great Happiness Space as one of the few unflinching portrayals of a side of Japan that most, Japanese and gaijin alike, prefer to ignore. I've only lived in Japan for a year and I don't claim to understand the complexities of its society and culture, but there is a darkness here that I've never experienced before.
