Ishii Yuya's comedy has as its pretty but crestfallen heroine a provincial girl called Sawako (Hikari Mitsushima) who complains she is "very much a sub-middling woman".
So "it can't be helped" that in five years of Tokyo life she has run through five jobs and five boyfriends.
Furthermore she can't go home because her alcoholic father, the owner of a failing clam-packing factory, doesn't want to see her and her uncle is upset because she now has a boyfriend who likes knitting and has a young daughter. What to do?
In the end, she does go home where she suddenly decides to brace herself up, run the clam factory herself, forgive her dad and grow to like the knitter's little girl. Truimph on all sides, but Yuya says that it is because Sawako has finally accepted she is very ordinary that things look up.
A strange, quirky film with a moral that one would think the Japanese might accept more readily than the British.
Sawako Decides
Cert: 12A
