Death of a Salaryman

Wonderfully Surreal, Painfully Real, This is the Story of a Japanese Salaryman Who Loses His Job at a Tv Corporation, on His 40Th Birthday, and Slips Through to a Different Layer of Society, a Shadowy World Where Curious Characters Show Him the Way - a Travelling Salesman With a Passion for Elvis, a Pachinko Pro With Dreams of Returning to Hawaii, and a Tv Producer Who Will Stop at Nothing to Get His Big Break - and Kenji Sets Off on a Roller-Coaster Ride of Misadventures. He Tries to Make Money From the Pachinko Machines - and Succeeds - but His Conventional, Snobbish Hardworking Wife Finds This Demeaning. He Has a Hated Mother-In-Law Who's a Genius at Winning Magazine Competitions and Knows the Wife of a Bank Manager. so Our Hero Ends Up Instead in the Postroom of a Huge Bank...With a Little Help From His Friends, He Makes His Way Out and Via a Bizarre Chain of Happenstance (Including Being Struck by Lightning While Wielding a Golf Club) Finds Himself Responsible for a Tv Reality Gam