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.

Café Lumière
2004
6.7/10

Shoplifters
2018
7.8/10

Swallowtail Butterfly
1996
7.5/10

Repast
1951
7.5/10

Tokyo Family
2013
7.3/10

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
2003
7.3/10

Pigs and Battleships
1961
7.1/10

Mammal
2016
6.3/10

Shelter
2014
5.9/10

Gate of Flesh
1988
6.2/10

Himizu
2012
7.0/10

Evil Does Not Exist
2023
6.8/10

Street of Shame
1956
7.7/10

Happyend
2024
6.8/10

The Pumpkin Eater
1964
6.7/10

Being Flynn
2012
6.2/10

Same Kind of Different as Me
2017
6.8/10

Urchin
2025
6.6/10

The Boy and the Beast
2015
7.9/10

An Autumn Afternoon
1962
7.9/10
Gardener of Eden
2007
5.21/10