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.

• Release date
• February 22, 2014
• Runtime
• 130 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Kiyoshi Sasabe

Cast

Aoi Nakamura Shu Tokieda Chihiro Ohtsuka Akane Hojo Mizuki Yamamoto Rui Sho Aoyagi Junya Akiyoshi Nakao Kojiro Nobuaki Kaneko Atsushi Kodama Jun Inoue Suzumoto Yuta Kanai Karube