Tokyo Refugees

Tokyo Refugees

130 mins | Drama | Feb. 22, 2014

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.

Tokyo Refugees

130 mins | Drama | Feb. 22, 2014

Tokyo Refugees
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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Cine Move See
Original title 東京難民
Directors Kiyoshi Sasabe
Writers Takeshi Aoshima

Cast

Aoi Nakamura

as Shu Tokieda

Chihiro Otsuka

as Akane Hojo

Sho Aoyagi

as Junya

Akiyoshi Nakao

as Kojiro

Nobuaki Kaneko

as Atsushi Kodama

Jun Inoue

as Suzumoto

Yuta Kanai

as Karube

Motoki Ochiai

as Shun

Saburo Tamura

as Serizawa

Yôichi Okamura

as Naganuma

Nobuhiko Otani

as Mori

Kanji Tsuda

as Police Officer

Mantaro Koichi

as Kobayakawa

Seiji Fukushi

as Police Officer