空飛ぶタイヤ
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Katsuhide MotokiDrehbuch:
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Tomoya Nagase, Dean Fujioka, 高橋一生, Kyōko Fukada, ムロツヨシ, 阿部顕嵐, Ittoku Kishibe, Takashi Sasano, Eiko Koike, Yasufumi Terawaki, Akira Emoto, Aoi Nakamura (mehr)Inhalte(1)
One fine and sunny day, a truck causes the death of a woman walking with her child. Tokuro Akamatsu, the president of the freight company whose vehicle caused the accident, cannot believe his ears when police tell him the woman was killed by one of the truck’s wheels, which suddenly flew off while driving. Faulty maintenance is suspected, and as Akamatsu’s company becomes the target of the public and the media’s wrath, he realizes that a structural defect within the truck itself may have been to blame, and requests that its manufacturer, Hope Motor Company, carry out new tests. Yuta Sawada, a section chief in Hope’s consumer strategy department, is initially dismissive of Akamatsu’s demands, until his colleagues’ secretive behavior arouses his curiosity. He begins his own investigation, and unwittingly discovers a vast conspiracy to cover up a past product recall, in response to an incident that never should have happened again. Hope continues to be uncooperative, and Akamatsu’s pleas fall on deaf ears. To protect the company he inherited from his parents, as well as his staff and family, and most of all, to stay true to his strong sense of justice, Akamatsu decides to take on the massive corporation himself. Meanwhile, Sawada struggles with his status as a salaried employee within a huge hierarchy, as well as his own conception of right and wrong. What lies ahead for these two men after their quests for truth collide head-on? (Nikkatsu)
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It had a bit of a Hanzawa Naoki feel to it, so if you liked him, don't throw this one away either. You could say it's about nothing really. With painstaking slowness we arrive at something that everyone has already known since the beginning. But it's interesting, because it's a beautiful way to see how something that for some people is just a message on paper can affect many lives. One stupid accident, one stupid glitch, one stupid mishap, and everybody's in on it. On the other hand, you get a behind-the-scenes look at Japanese companies big and small. And then there's the whole thing about it being full of interesting facial expressions. Even the small roles have great expressions! :-) It's simply not a bad chatty film.
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