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A Permanent Part-Timer in Distress (2009)
Directed by Hiroki Iwabuchi
Documentary · 1h 09m
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...
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Hiroki Iwabuchi
- Producer
- Yutaka Tsuchiya
Details
- Original title
- 遭難フリーター
- Release date
- 2009-03-28
- Runtime
- 1h 09m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan