With amusement and trepidation, the audience watches the heroine burn more and more bridges as she throws herself into a life of luxury hotels, restaurants, clothes and expensive gifts for her young lover. Read more ‘River of Exploding Durians’: Tokyo Review It’s the first of a very long series of switcheroos she performs at the bank, thanks to her impeccable reputation and the assistant manager’s less than impeccable shortcuts, all under the disapproving eye of her suspicious supervisor Mrs. She simply makes out a fake cashier’s check for Grandpa and gives $20,000 in cash to Kota as a “loan”. His rich grandfather won’t budge and Rika seizes an opportunity to help. Kota is a nice boy but is on the verge of dropping out of school because he doesn’t have the money for tuition. Though mousily attired, Rika really is lovely, but when after being stalked by the lovesick lad she lets him take her to a cheap motel, the film hits its first dizzy turning point. At the home of one rich man, she meets his grandson, the college student Kota (up-and-coming young actor Sosuke Ikematsu in a convincing perf), who can’t take his eyes off her. The idealist in her is still there under cover when we meet her as a demurely uniformed bank employee, selling bonds and retirement funds door-to-door to her elderly, well-off clientele. Read more ‘Garm Wars: The Last Druid’: Tokyo Review

When caught, her self-righteous defense is that the ends justify the means.

The nuns want the kids to donate half their allowances to help needy children, but Rika is so convinced that she steals big money from her Dad’s wallet. Her fall from grace is emphasized in flashbacks to her girlhood in a Catholic school and a key episode when she is smitten by a charity drive. Yoshida’s talent for light comedy, seen in his Cannes Critics Week entry Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!, is kept under wraps here, and there will be viewers who follow the story as a straight immorality play, watching housewife Rika Umezawa (Miyazawa) slip away from her boring, inattentive husband and into a life of daily crime. HBO's Post-Vietnam War Series 'The Sympathizer' Sets Main Cast

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