Tokyo Refugees (2014)

  • NR
  • 02/22/2014 (JP)
  • Drama
  • 2h 10m

Scraping by in the Tokyo streets.

Overview

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.

Takeshi Aoshima

Screenplay

Kiyoshi Sasabe

Director

Cast

Aoi Nakamura's headshot

Aoi Nakamura

Shu Tokieda
Chihiro Ohtsuka's headshot

Chihiro Ohtsuka

Akane Hojo
Mizuki Yamamoto's headshot

Mizuki Yamamoto

Rui
Sho Aoyagi's headshot

Sho Aoyagi

Junya
Akiyoshi Nakao's headshot

Akiyoshi Nakao

Kojiro
Nobuaki Kaneko's headshot

Nobuaki Kaneko

Atsushi Kodama
Jun Inoue's headshot

Jun Inoue

Suzumoto
Yuta Kanai's headshot

Yuta Kanai

Karube

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