Back in the 1990s, an unmarried woman in Japan who was 25 or older might have been called a "Christmas cake." The term equated them with the seasonal cakes that were sold for half price after Dec. 24, and it contained an explicit warning for women: Catch a man before you turn 25 because that's your official sell-by date. It embodied Japan's embarrassing tendency to discriminate against women. But a mere two decades later, it's single Japanese men that are the target of this societal get-married-or-else pressure. And here's a movie that delves into that very issue — a wry, dry, brutally cynical work called "The Lobster."