The read
A Balasaur Score of 61 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.4/10.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
8 audience votes
Key crew
- Kiyoshi SasabeDirector
- Takeshi AoshimaScreenplay
- Koji EndoOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Aoi NakamuraShu Tokieda
- Chihiro OhtsukaAkane Hojo
- Mizuki YamamotoRui
- Sho AoyagiJunya
- Akiyoshi NakaoKojiro
- Nobuaki KanekoAtsushi Kodama
- Jun InoueSuzumoto
- Yuta KanaiKarube
- Motoki OchiaiShun
- Saburo TamuraSerizawa
- Yôichi OkamuraNaganuma
- Nobuhiko OtaniMori
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Themes
homelessnessdrop-outtokyo, japanimpoverished