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Critics find the film's conceit--"that joblessness is a humiliation well beyond nakedness"--to be "witty" and "trenchant" (the New York Times ' Maslin).
Japan's unemployment statistics notoriously understate the true extent of joblessness, but even so the current 4.4 percent rate is the highest in the 45 years the number has been published.
If that's right, it accounts for a substantial fraction of the world's joblessness.