Tokyo Refugees

Feb 22, 2014

2h 10m

★ 5.2

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Cine Move See

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Cast

Shu Tokieda

Aoi Nakamura

Akane Hojo

Chihiro Ohtsuka

Rui

Mizuki Yamamoto

Junya

Sho Aoyagi

Kojiro

Akiyoshi Nakao

Atsushi Kodama

Nobuaki Kaneko

Suzumoto

Jun Inoue

Karube

Yuta Kanai

Shun

Motoki Ochiai

Serizawa

Saburo Tamura

Naganuma

Yôichi Okamura

Mori

Nobuhiko Otani

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