It spends its first act grinding you down the same way it grinds down its narrator, and then it drops you in the ocean. Calling your protagonist "Me" is a flex that only works if the office humiliation lands, and it does: the hulking, bald, perverted boss at Hudsucker isn't a cartoon so much as a weather system, and every act of violent retribution stacks until the breaking point feels earned rather than staged. What keeps the whole thing from curdling is the grandmother. Those childhood flashbacks are the only warm light in the frame, and the film knows exactly when to cut back to them. Then the revenge, the flight out of Tokyo, the hijacking, and an island named for a word that means the far-off perfect place. Nobody talks about this one. That's the crime.

A nameless salaryman, known only as "Me", works at the Hudsucker corporate headquarters, where his huge, bald and lecherous boss makes him the regular target of violent punishment. Bittersweet memories of his late grandmother from childhood keep him going, but the brutal job pushes him to his limit. After finally getting revenge, he flees Tokyo by plane, only for the flight to be violently hijacked. He is thrown into the Pacific Ocean and ends up on the shore of Mahoroba, a remote island named for an old Japanese word for a faraway utopia. The drama film screened at the 13th Shimokitazawa Film Festival in 2021, where it took the Grand Prize.