Document 72 Hours · SEASON 4

Home Is Where the Locker Is—The Day Laborers of Osaka

Episode 19 · 2013-09-13

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Episode overview

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.

25 minutes

Season 4 episodes

1. Close contact: The Sleepless Flower Shop in Kabukicho2013-04-05 2. Farewell Shibuya, Kamaboko Station Building2013-04-12 3. Osaka Kushikatsu Elegy2013-04-19 4. Yokosuka Air Base, Operation Matchmaking2013-04-26 5. Points of Departure: New Chitose Airport2013-05-03 6. In the City of Closed Factories2013-05-10 7. Enthusiastic Singing! Hitori Karaoke2013-05-17 8. Kyoto Engiri Shrine2013-05-24 9. Night Clinic: An ER of Last Resort2013-05-31 10. The Live-Streamers: Interactive Webcasting2013-06-07 11. Familyless Life Theater2013-06-14 12. Underground Idols2013-06-21 13. Dreams Bloom at Kochi Racecourse2013-06-28 14. In Front of a Giant Manbow2013-07-05 15. From the Last Shelter2013-07-19 16. Climbing Mt. Fuji2013-07-26 17. The "Rain, then Fine" Coin Laundry2013-08-02 18. The Happiness Theory of Healthland2013-09-06 19. Home Is Where the Locker Is—The Day Laborers of Osaka2013-09-13 20. Yanaka Cemetery: Dialogs Between Death and Life2013-09-20 21. Fly! Epsilon2013-09-27 22. Yoshimoto: Summer Training Camp at the critical moment2013-10-04 23. Personal Glimpses at a 24-Hour Gym2013-10-11 24. The Game Center and the Prize Beyond the Prize2013-10-18 25. The Makeup Room2013-10-25 26. In Search of Hiroshima Taro2013-11-01 27. Hitchhiking in the Seto Inland Sea2013-11-08 28. The Call of the Dunes2013-11-15 29. A Giant Travel Agency: Destinations and Detours2013-11-22 30. The Post Office That Never Sleeps2013-12-06 31. Night Train to Izumo: Destination - Destiny2013-12-13 32. A Giant Bookstore: Wandering in a World of Words2013-12-20