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Tokyo Refugees

2014 · 130 min Drama
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

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.

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📋 Film Details

Original Title 東京難民
Year 2014
Country Japan
Genre Drama
Director Kiyoshi Sasabe
Runtime 130 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (8 votes)

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The film constructs a stark social drama, relying on an almost documentary-like meticulousness in depicting a fall from grace. It explores the fragility of security in a metropolis where a single misstep can render a person invisible.

What lingers after the credits is a chilling, unsentimental immersion into a world of precarity, permanently altering one's view of the urban landscape. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Kiyoshi Sasabe

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Watch alone in the evening to fully absorb the atmosphere of despair and alienation.

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