Adrift in Tokyo (2007, Directed by Satoshi Miki)
Japan Foundation Los Angeles
JAPANEMA / Free Japanese Cinema Screening
2nd and 4th Wednesday evening of the month
Japan Foundation Auditorium, 5700 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Reservation is not required
October 22, 2014, 7:00 pm
“Adrift in Tokyo” (101 mins, 2007)
In Japanese with English substitle
Directed by Satoshi Miki
Walk in Tokyo for one-million-yen? What’s the catch?
Takemura (Joe Odagiri) is an 8th-year college student who has somehow managed to accumulate ¥840,000 in debt.
Abandoned by his parents in childhood, he has no one to turn to for the cash. One night a stranger with a grubby trenchcoat and grizzly beard, Fukuhara (Tomokazu Miura), bursts into his apartment, puts him in a chokehold and demands the dough, or else.
Takemura agrees to scrape it up, but his feeble attempts, including a losing pachinko session, fail miserably.
Then, the day before the debt comes due, Fukuhara comes to Takemura with an unusual offer: walk with him from Kichijoji to Kasumigaseki, for ¥1 million, paid on successful completion. Takemura has no choice but to go along.
