Santo Juyaku

[Machine Translation] [Toho DVD Masterpiece Selection] They say bad things about me behind my back as a third-class executive, but... I'm the president! --Kuwabara ( Reikichi Kawamura ), the president of Nankai Sangyo, a prestigious company in a certain town, is astonished when he reads a newspaper article. He is surprised to read in the newspaper that the former president, Nara ( Toranosuke Ogawa ), is to be reinstated as president after his ban is lifted. Kuwabara called an emergency meeting of the board of directors. However, news came in that Nara had collapsed from a cerebral hemorrhage, and Kuwabara decided to stay on as president. Meanwhile, the company is in a state of flux, as the wife (Sadako Sawamura) wants to play matchmaker with her new kimono, so the company encourages in-house marriages and hands out bonuses to wives to prevent their husbands from navel-gazing. Kuwabara's right-hand man, Urashima (Hisaya Morishige), the personnel section chief, is having an increasingly difficult time... This is a film adaptation of a novel by GENJI Chikita that popularized the term "third-class executive," which refers to a salaryman executive who is neither the founding president nor the owner-president. What will happen to a company controlled by a hired president?

Special Feature / Bonus Track: stills gallery

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[東宝DVD名作セレクション] 吾輩のことを陰では三等重役などと悪口を云うが・・・ 社長だぞ 吾輩は社長だぞ! ――とある町の名門企業、南海産業社長の桑原 (河村黎吉) は新聞を見てびっくり仰天した。元社長の奈良 (小川虎之助) の追放が解除され社長に復帰するというのだ。そうなれば格下げ間違いなしの桑原は緊急重役会を招集した。ところが、奈良が脳溢血で倒れたとの報せが入り、桑原社長は続投することに。そんな中、新調した着物で仲人をしたいと夫人 (沢村貞子) が言い出したために社内結婚を奨励、夫にへそくりをさせないよう賞与を妻に手渡しする等、会社はてんやわんや。桑原の右腕・浦島人事課長 (森繁久彌) の苦労は増すばかり・・・。 創業社長でもオーナー社長でもない、サラリーマン重役を指す「三等重役」という言葉を広く知らしめた、源氏鶏太の小説を映画化。雇われ社長に操縦された会社の行方やいかに?

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