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Tokyo Refugees

Tokyo Refugees

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 22, 2014

Runtime

2h 10m

Genres

Drama

User Score

50%

Original Title

東京難民

Production Companies

Cine Move See

Director

Kiyoshi Sasabe

Description

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.