Tokyo Refugees
“Scraping by in the Tokyo streets.”
2014•2h 10m•5.0•Released
Drama
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.
Director
Kiyoshi Sasabe
Writer
Takeshi Aoshima
Languages
Japanese
Studio
Cine Move See
Cast
Aoi Nakamura
Shu Tokieda
Chihiro Ohtsuka
Akane Hojo
Mizuki Yamamoto
Rui
Sho Aoyagi
Junya
Akiyoshi Nakao
Kojiro
Nobuaki Kaneko
Atsushi Kodama
Jun Inoue
Suzumoto
Yuta Kanai
Karube
Motoki Ochiai
Shun
Saburo Tamura
Serizawa
Yôichi Okamura
Naganuma
Nobuhiko Otani
Mori
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Araki
Kanji Tsuda
Police Officer
Mantaro Koichi
Kobayakawa
Production
Company
Cine Move See
Company
King Records
Company
Phantom Film
Company
CineMove
Producer
Masaaki Usui
Producer
Atsushi Moriyama
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