As a lover of Japan, I'm curious to know why many Japanese people, especially the young, admire the western countries and even wish to live there. The movie gives me some good answer, at least some clues. I mean if the depiction of the working environment captures more or less what is happening now in some Japanese workplaces , I personally can't bear it for a week. So, I'm happy that I saw the movie. However, aside from depicting the working atmosphere and how it pushes people to the edge, the movie fails at everything. Let me just discuss the most important one: Its 'solution': leaving the job and finding joy in working in some poor country for the poor. Is this really a solution? I can see two main problems:

First, I'm fine with leaving the job, but not in this passive way, with just a smile. So what will happen to the next young man or woman who is going to replace the guy? If the guy feels responsible for some poor people in a foreign country, why doesn't he feel sympathy for his replacement? For this reason, I dislike the way he left his workplace. He didn't have to punch that shitty superior, but he really needed to take some measures, maybe a formal complain letter or something else. At least, he should try, if he had some respect for all the pain and misery he went through, and if he felt responsible to other and future employees.

Secondly: If the guy, after being born, growing up, and living for years in Japan, can't change things in his own country and working environment a bit, how can he change things in other countries? Now, if someone tells me that this Japanese young man can't even try to change things a bit in his own country, I would just conclude that nothing can be changed in our world. So, it's better to not fool ourselves with the fantasy of making some poor people in a foreign country happy.