CinemaOSMovie · 2014 · 2h 10m

Tokyo Refugees

Scraping by in the Tokyo streets.

50%(8)IMDbDrama

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.

Directed byKiyoshi Sasabe

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Status
Released
Runtime
2h 10m
Language
JA
Released
February 22, 2014
Studios
King RecordsPhantom FilmCine Move See

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Aoi Nakamura

Aoi Nakamura

Shu Tokieda

Chihiro Ohtsuka

Chihiro Ohtsuka

Akane Hojo

Mizuki Yamamoto

Mizuki Yamamoto

Rui

Sho Aoyagi

Sho Aoyagi

Junya

Akiyoshi Nakao

Akiyoshi Nakao

Kojiro

Nobuaki Kaneko

Nobuaki Kaneko

Atsushi Kodama

Jun Inoue

Jun Inoue

Suzumoto

Yuta Kanai

Yuta Kanai

Karube

Motoki Ochiai

Motoki Ochiai

Shun

Saburo Tamura

Serizawa

Creative team
Directed by
Kiyoshi Sasabe
Kiyoshi Sasabe
Written by
Takeshi Aoshima
Produced by
Masaaki Usui
Atsushi Moriyama

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