A Permanent Part-Timer in Distress

Overview

The director, twenty-three-year-old Iwabuchi Hiroki, is a permanent part-timer who on weekdays does menial work at a factory for 1,250 yen an hour, and on weekends takes on casual temporary work in Tokyo, a city he is fascinated with. He joins a demonstration demanding rights for permanent part-timers, and is featured on TV as "a poor, unhappy temporary worker." Despite having made his own choice to live as a permanent part-timer, he says that "the days feel like drowning in shallow water." But during the diary-like documentation of his life, something changes...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 28, 2009

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Cast

Hiroki Iwabuchi

Director

Hiroki Iwabuchi

Writer

Karin Amamiya

Producer

Yutaka Tsuchiya

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1401250