Document 72 Hours · SEASON 4
The Game Center and the Prize Beyond the Prize
Episode 24 · 2013-10-18
- Documentary
Episode overview
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?
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
