One night, one heist, and a fortune meant for a crime syndicate set the plot in motion in Goodbye Cruel World, a 2022 Japanese crime drama directed by Tatsushi Ōmori.
What is Goodbye Cruel World about?
Five strangers — Anzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru — come together for a single job: robbing a car carrying money the Sugiyama clan planned to launder through a love hotel. The heist goes their way, and the plan was always to split the cash and disappear in different directions once the night was over. But a detective hired by the clan, along with the clan's own members, refuses to let the theft go unanswered, and the five find themselves hunted from every side at once, in a chase that pushes each of them toward an outcome none of them saw coming when they first climbed into that car together.
About the cast
Hidetoshi Nishijima and Nao Omori lead the ensemble, joined by Tomokazu Miura, Takumi Saitoh, Hio Miyazawa, Tina Tamashiro, Eiji Okuda, and Shingo Tsurumi as the wider circle of people caught up in the fallout of the robbery.
Context & significance
Tatsushi Ōmori directs the 127-minute film, which sits across documentary, drama, and crime, giving the story a grounded, almost procedural weight as it follows both the five who pulled off the robbery and the people sent after them. Japan supplies the setting throughout, and the film keeps its focus tight on the aftermath of the theft rather than the heist itself, letting the consequences stretch out across the full runtime instead of ending once the money changes hands. That longer runtime gives the pursuit room to shift shape more than once, rather than resolving in one quick confrontation.
Watching Goodbye Cruel World on Ktime
Goodbye Cruel World streams on K-Time with a free account login, and Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are both available for viewers who want to follow the chase in Farsi from start to finish.