42-year-old loser Iwao needs to get laid, like, yesterday. He makes a move on a colleague at the pachinko parlor but goes home simply embarrassed. When he returns, his father has passed away, and he has a wife, bought in the Philippines for 300 yen. His mother Tsuru greets the newlyweds with a hunting rifle. Irene wants financial support for her impoverished family, and Iwao seems decent enough. She gets married but is terrified about the wedding night and escapes from Iwao every time he demands ‘getting it’. Her mother-in-law Tsuru despises her, and wants to replace her with a “nice, polite Japanese girl.” At least the Filipino girls in the village are nice to her and give her good advice based on their bar hostess experiences. In the meantime, recently widowed Tsuru schemes to sell Irene to yakuza gangs—which leads to an unfortunate turn of events. Not your typical Japanese film, but despite its explicit dialogue and unreal situations, this is a highly entertaining one, with an unexpected ending that elicits an ironic mixture of catharsis and melancholy. (Karen Park)