To prove her existence, she begins to embezzle from her bank to finance her material comfort and starts an affair with a young man, the grandson of one of her clients.
In her work, neglected housewife Rika finds satisfaction as well as distraction from her efforts in having babies. Yet these women work very hard, though some slight skid and falls into affairs with their supervisor while some, like Rika, begin to let greed take over. More women and hourly-paid workers join the work force but they are not respected or supported by their company, or even by their own family members. The economy backdrop and the social issues brought about from the movie and the book are interesting though: after the economy bubble burst in the 1990s in Japan, everyone work hard to maintain a life their parents take for granted. Equally unconvincing is why the young man would fall for her apart from the money and the material comfort it brings. The movie is choppy because there seems to be little depiction of why the main protagonist, middle-aged wife bank employee Rika Umezawa (Rie Miyazawa) would fall for a university student Kota Hirabayashi (Sosuke Ikematsu) who could be her son. Well, there is a quite a big change during the adaptation and I have to say that the transition in the novel is better but focusing the couple in the movie is probably a better idea. I was looking forward to see this movie, got a little disappointed and went to read the novel.
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