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Season 2, Episode 9: The Game Center, and the Prize beyond the Prize
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Outside Yokohama's main rail station is a 6-floor game center. New games come out all the time, but an old standby is a cash cow: crane games, accounting for 40% of revenue. From early morning till late at night, an endless stream of people pay to wage a fierce struggle with these cranes in an effort to win a prize. Overworked office workers, job-hunting college kids, independent students re-taking college entrance exams. What prizes do they seek beyond the prizes right in front of them?
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
At a Train Station in Fukushima