In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.
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Kyôhei Shibata Atsuo Nakamura Masahiko Tsugawa Hisako Manda Reiko Takashima Kazuya Kosaka Kenzō Kawarasaki Takeyuki Yue Yudai Ishiyama Takeshi Ôbayashi Minoru Hirano Daisuke Iijima Gōzō Sōma Shinzo Hotta Eiichi Kikuchi Miru Hitotsuyanagi Yoshie Ohtsuka Tarô Mochizuki Shirô Itô Masato Furuoya Atom Shimojo Hirotaro Honda Kunihiro Matsumura Shintarô Mizushima Tetsuo Hasegawa Jinya Sato Akiko Kana Chikako Aoyama Mitsue Suzuki Seiichirô Kameishi Akira Hamada Sôichirô Kitamura Shigeru Kōyama Kyōko Enami
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