[4] The cast includes Tetsu Sawaki (Shuji Matsuda, the 17-year-old high school student), Yumi Asō (Aikawa, the convenience store clerk), Ken Mitsuishi (the middle-aged yakuza), and Jun Murakami (Kurosawa, the taxi driver).
Aikawa is a convenience store clerk with a son at elementary school and a husband who has abandoned the family after losing his job.
She becomes increasingly stressed by financial and family worries, and eventually attempts a bank robbery and kidnaps one of her son's bullies to teach him a lesson.
Time Out praised the film, stating, Maintaining a semi-detached empathy with the characters, Lee suggests that the disintegration of the family is at the root of the problems.
The all-star cast worked for peanuts because they loved the script; and the young director marshals the ensemble with such skill you'd think he'd been doing it for years.