I have heard the outline of the story for a long time. I thought this movie would not give me any surprises, but a good movie will only be known after seeing it. The story is very simple. It was an ordinary person who worked in a government agency, and Kanji Watanabe, the chief of the city government's Citizens Section, wasted thirty years without doing anything useful for the common people. After suffering from stomach cancer, he started to regret his life, feeling that he had lived half his life in vain, and reconsidered the meaning of life. At first, eating, drinking and having fun with a dashing writer, this is a relatively low-level happiness, and then I feel very happy with the original female subordinate (because the protagonist is a widower, and the son is not filial, just thinking about the protagonist's pension) Finally, in Inspired by his female subordinates, he thought that he had to use his rights and relationships to help the people do something good (turn a stinky puddle into a park). At first, it was a troublesome thing pushed over by various departments. After the protagonist finally did this, he died happily on the swing in the park. And it's not over yet. At the protagonist's funeral, the boss took the protagonist's credit for himself. Then, the protagonist's subordinates and colleagues restored the protagonist's park building process fragment by fragment, and everyone was built by the original unbelieving protagonist. The park, in the end, it was determined that the protagonist built the park. In the end, everyone regretted their idleness in the public office and vowed to be a good public servant, but this was what they said with the spirit of wine. The next day, everything was as usual. Still doing nothing. There are many small details in this film, such as the joke told by the female subordinate "ask public officials why they dare not ask for leave, because they are afraid that the government will know that I will be fine without me". There are also hats that the protagonist changed, and songs sung by the protagonist.
Life really has to do something useful to make it meaningful!
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