At a Gas Station in a Downpour
It's a June weekend, and the rainy season in Japan's central Kanto region is being inaugurated with an apparently endless deluge. But in spite of the drenching, people must travel. Where are they all going in the pelting rain? At a 24-hour gas station, we meet a soaked construction worker obliged to cease work because of the rain, a traveler going to meet a child living elsewhere, a man working a night job to support his family...As they pause at the gas station to fill their tanks, they tell us their stories. Then, hoping for the rain to cease, they resume their journeys.
Aired: Jul 25, 2014 Genre: DocumentaryRating: 0 Country: Japan Production: NHK
Episodes
01: Wrestlers on the Road02: A 260-Person "Sharehouse"03: The Fierce Battle! Entrepreneur Contest.04: Japan's Northernmost Bus Stop05: Okinawa: The Barbershop that Never Sleeps06: Fukushima: From a Super Market in Early Spring07: Printing Handheld Memories08: The Voyage of Life on a Giant Ferry09: A 24/7 Discount Store10: One Tower, Many Lives11: Youth "HelloWork" - A Job Agency12: Ueno Park, Under the Cherry Trees in Full Bloom13: An All-Night Eatery14: Self Storage: Secrets and Memories15: Mt. Osore: Between Life and Death16: On the Road: “Happiness Theory” on Route 1617: The 24-Hour Supermarket: Just Another Day18: Shonan, Reasons to Gaze at the Sea19: At a Gas Station in a Downpour20: What Dreams I Have at the Fishing Pond Late at Night21: A 24/7 Animal Hospital: When a Pet Needs a Vet22: Kabukicho Nail Salon: Behind the Scenes of a Woman's Dressing Room23: At a Train Station in Fukushima24: “On the Shore with a View of the Atomic Bomb Dome25: General Hospital Store: Where Shopping Meets Healing26: Haneda Airport: From Summer to Autumn27: Deep Asakusa, Midnight Coffee Shop28: The Ameyoko International Food Market29: What to Hit: Boxing Gym in a Mixed-Use Building30: Koenji, What to Expect at the Public Baths31: Dreams Along the Yamanote Line32: Kisarazu, Wangan, Big Lunch Box Store Blues33: Wandering Shakebai34: Osaka Minami, Midnight Underground Tenement35: Shinjuku Ni-Chome: A Taste of Mother's Home Late at Night
