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Across a 45-year career in cinema, Yakusho has worked with every major Japanese director of his generation and inhabited over 80 characters, spanning salarymen, samurai, gangsters, cops, seducers and everymen of all stripes.
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Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2025
The imagery is intended to mock and reflect modern Japan in some way — from the overworked salarymen gleefully staging suicidal leaps off of buildings to the schoolgirls (who, in the dream, have cell phones for heads) exposing themselves to perverts (who also have cell phones for heads).
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2024
Our hapless salaryman protagonist wakes up to find a metal screw protruding from his cheek.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
After working as a salaryman, or white-collar worker, for three years post-World War II, founder Onitsuka established the brand in 1949 moving from the belief that sports could foster body and mind and fuel growth and progression for Japanese youth.
—Martino Carrera, WWD, 29 July 2024
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Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2025
The imagery is intended to mock and reflect modern Japan in some way — from the overworked salarymen gleefully staging suicidal leaps off of buildings to the schoolgirls (who, in the dream, have cell phones for heads) exposing themselves to perverts (who also have cell phones for heads).
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2024
Our hapless salaryman protagonist wakes up to find a metal screw protruding from his cheek.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
After working as a salaryman, or white-collar worker, for three years post-World War II, founder Onitsuka established the brand in 1949 moving from the belief that sports could foster body and mind and fuel growth and progression for Japanese youth.
—Martino Carrera, WWD, 29 July 2024
See All Example Sentences for salaryman
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“Salaryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salaryman. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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