Movielogr
Tokyo Refugees (2014)
Directed by Kiyoshi Sasabe
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.
Length 130 minutes
Actors
Aoi Nakamura | Chihiro Otsuka | Mizuki Yamamoto | Sho Aoyagi | Akiyoshi Nakao | Nobuaki Kaneko | Jun Inoue | Yûta Kanai | Motoki Ochiai | Saburo Tamura | Yôichi Okamura | Nobuhiko Otani | Mitsuru Fukikoshi | Kanji Tsuda | Mantarô Koichi | Seiji Fukushi