S4·E19 – Nishinari, Osaka - Locker Blues for rent

2013-09-13 • ? min

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The Airin district of Osaka. In this area, where thousands of people live each day as day laborers, an indispensable item is the "monthly rental locker. Many of them live in cramped, simple accommodations where they can barely sleep, and they have nowhere to put their valuables. Each locker is filled with a life of its own. August is the month when the rush to return home begins throughout Japan. This film closely follows a long-established locker store that attracts customers to drop off and pick up their belongings, and looks at the Obon season that the city of laborers welcomes.