Each gender has its own stereotypes like men being bread winners or women being a little bit too sensitive for their own good. The latter stereotype is the theme of Amuse Soft Entertainment’s new DVD Crying Girl (translated to Nakigao in Japanese), which was released in Japan late last month.

The tagline of the DVD is “11 stories of people crying in earnest,” and it chronicles eleven actresses crying as they each recollect about the worst day they have ever experienced:

-Marika, who had a manager yell at her.
-Risa, whose boyfriend abandoned her.
-Nana, who had a bad photograph of her published in a magazine.
-Shiho, like Risa, had a boyfriend who left her.
-Mai, who cried because she felt the loneliness of the city.
-Yutaka, whose friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and was engaged to be married.

Here is a trailer:

What is the exact purpose of the DVD? Looks like it is targeted toward Japanese men. Maybe watching an emotionally vulnerable woman cry will make them feel stronger. I do not know. It is a strange, backwards concept, but the Japanese take on gender roles is a little different than how they are viewed in Western countries. Oh, what a world we live in.

SOURCE: Inventor Spot