Tokyo Refugees

Scraping by in the Tokyo streets.

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.

2014

2h 10min

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Top Billed Cast

中村蒼
Shu Tokieda
大塚千弘
Akane Hojo
山本美月
Rui
青柳翔
Junya
中尾明慶
Kojiro
金子ノブアキ
Atsushi Kodama
井上順
Suzumoto
金井勇太
Karube
落合モトキ
Shun
Saburo Tamura
Serizawa
岡村洋一
Naganuma
Nobuhiko Otani
Mori
吹越満
Araki
津田寛治
Police Officer
小市慢太郎
Kobayakawa
福士誠治
Police Officer

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