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Tokyo Refugees
Tokyo Refugees

Tokyo Refugees

Scraping by in the Tokyo streets.

Genres

Drama

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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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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Runtime

130 mins

Rating

5.2/10

Release Date

22 February 2014

Country

Japan

Cast

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

Saburo Tamura

Serizawa

Yôichi Okamura

Yôichi Okamura

Naganuma

Nobuhiko Otani

Nobuhiko Otani

Mori

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Araki

Kanji Tsuda

Kanji Tsuda

Police Officer

Mantaro Koichi

Mantaro Koichi

Kobayakawa

Seiji Fukushi

Seiji Fukushi

Police Officer

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