Tokyo Refugees
MovieTitle | 東京難民 |
User score | 5.2 |
Release date | Feb 22, 2014 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Kiyoshi Sasabe |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | Cine Move See |
Run time | 130 min. |
When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expelled from school and evicted from his apartment, he becomes one of Japan’s many ‘net cafe refugees’, barely scraping by each day with temporary and part-time work. Even though he’s still in Tokyo, his circumstances drive him to see and experience his home city in new ways. Trying to survive, Osamu gradually acquaints himself with the ‘invisible’ spaces occupied by the wanderers and homeless of Tokyo… people just like himself.