Document 72 Hours · SEASON 5
A 260-Person "Sharehouse"
Episode 2 · 2014-01-17

- Documentary
Episode overview
In 2013, one of Japan's largest "sharehouse" or shared-living apartment houses, opened in Tokyo. It can accommodate 260 people. Open to men, women and couples, it instantly reached full occupancy. There are aspiring artists, foreigners on short-term stays for work or study...people with all sorts of ambitions. In the evenings, in the common spaces, strangers lend each other a sympathetic ear. Parallel lives, intersecting lives: we encounter a variety in the course of 3 days spent getting to know the denizens of this remarkable establishment.
25 minutes
Season 5 episodes
1. Wrestlers on the Road2014-01-10
2. A 260-Person "Sharehouse"2014-01-17
3. The Fierce Battle! Entrepreneur Contest.2014-01-24
4. Japan's Northernmost Bus Stop2014-02-28
5. Okinawa: The Barbershop that Never Sleeps2014-03-07
6. Fukushima: From a Super Market in Early Spring2014-03-14
7. Printing Handheld Memories2014-04-04
8. The Voyage of Life on a Giant Ferry2014-04-11
9. A 24/7 Discount Store2014-04-18
10. One Tower, Many Lives2014-04-25
11. Youth "HelloWork" - A Job Agency2014-05-02
12. Ueno Park, Under the Cherry Trees in Full Bloom2014-05-09
13. An All-Night Eatery2014-05-23
14. Self Storage: Secrets and Memories2014-05-30
15. Mt. Osore: Between Life and Death2014-06-06
16. On the Road: “Happiness Theory” on Route 162014-06-13
17. The 24-Hour Supermarket: Just Another Day2014-07-04
18. Shonan, Reasons to Gaze at the Sea2014-07-18
19. At a Gas Station in a Downpour2014-07-25
20. What Dreams I Have at the Fishing Pond Late at Night2014-08-01
21. A 24/7 Animal Hospital: When a Pet Needs a Vet2014-08-22
22. Kabukicho Nail Salon: Behind the Scenes of a Woman's Dressing Room2014-08-29
23. At a Train Station in Fukushima2014-09-05
24. “On the Shore with a View of the Atomic Bomb Dome2014-09-12
25. General Hospital Store: Where Shopping Meets Healing2014-09-19
26. Haneda Airport: From Summer to Autumn2014-10-03
27. Deep Asakusa, Midnight Coffee Shop2014-10-10
28. The Ameyoko International Food Market2014-10-17
29. What to Hit: Boxing Gym in a Mixed-Use Building2014-10-24
30. Koenji, What to Expect at the Public Baths2014-10-31
31. Dreams Along the Yamanote Line2014-11-07
32. Kisarazu, Wangan, Big Lunch Box Store Blues2014-11-21
33. Wandering Shakebai2014-11-28
34. Osaka Minami, Midnight Underground Tenement2014-12-12
35. Shinjuku Ni-Chome: A Taste of Mother's Home Late at Night2014-12-19