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Salaryman Kintaro Part 1 Director: Takashi Miike Number of Items: 1 Format: Animated, Color, Dolby Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 130 minutes Studio: Arts Magic Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2005-06-28 Buy from Amazon

From Description Contains 4 Limited Edition Anime Cards only available with the US Version and Limited to the First Pressing

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 "Hooray for Kintaro, Heroic Salaryman!" The animated series about the popular character Kintaro, chronicling his struggles to adjust from his former life as a motorcycle gang member to his present life as a salaryman. There is a great deal of that peculiarly Japanese humor, such as when an executive is so impressed with the pencils Kintaro has been sharpening that he asks, "Which girl has been sharpening pencils since yesterday? The way pencils are sharpened has changed dramatically. They are done so elegantly, delicately and easy to write. I would love to marry a girl who sharpens pencils like this." Yeah, that's what I look for in a woman. I'm also fond of the final episode on this tape, where Kintaro runs into a former fellow gang member who has since had a sex change operation; she informs Kintaro that it was his decision to become a salaryman that gave her the courage to be his... er, her true self.