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Season 2, Episode 5: Home is Where the Locker Is; The Day Laborers of Osaka
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The Airin District, Osaka. Here live thousands of male day laborers, many of whom spend their nights in rooms so small they have no storage space at all. So they rely greatly on cheap rental lockers to store their essential belongings and prized possessions. Each locker contains a condensed life: a narrative. We set up at a locker rental establishment, and ask the patrons to share parts of their life-stories with us during the Obon season, when most Japanese go on holiday to visit hometowns and family graves. For these men, home is in their lockers.
All Episodes - Season 2
Episode 1
Night Clinic: An ER of Last Resort
Episode 2
The Live-streamers: Interactive Webcasting
Episode 3
The "Rain, then Fine" Coin Laundry
Episode 4
Climbing Mt. Fuji
Episode 5
Home is Where the Locker Is; The Day Laborers of Osaka
Episode 6
Yanaka Cemetery: Dialogs between Death and Life
Episode 7
Personal Glimpses at a 24-Hour Gym
Episode 8
Printing Handheld Memories
Episode 9
The Game Center, and the Prize beyond the Prize
Episode 10
The Makeup Room
Episode 11
The Voyage of Life on a Giant Ferry
Episode 12
One Tower, Many Lives
Episode 13
The Call of the Dunes
Episode 14
A 24/7 Discount Store
Episode 15
A Giant Travel Agency: Destinations and Detours
Episode 16
Night Train to Izumo: Destination - Destiny
Episode 17
The Post Office that Never Sleeps
Episode 18
Youth "HelloWork" - A Job Agency
Episode 19
An All-night Eatery
Episode 20
A Giant Bookstore: Wandering in a World of Words
Episode 21
Self Storage: Secrets and Memories
Episode 22
Mt. Osore: Between Life and Death
Episode 23
Wrestlers on the Road
Episode 24
The 24-Hour Supermarket: Just Another Day
Episode 25
At a Gas Station in a Downpour
Episode 26
A 260-person "Sharehouse"
Episode 27
A 24/7 Animal Hospital: When a Pet Needs a Vet
Episode 28
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