Tokyo. Ueno Station
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Kazu was born in 1933, the same year as the emperor, and his entire life, through a series of coincidences, has been linked to the imperial family as well as to the park near Ueno Station.
Here Kazu's life began in Tokyo as a laborer in the run-up to the 1964 Olympics, and here he ended his days, shocked by the 2011 tsunami and angered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics, living in a tent in a village for the homeless.
Now Kazu's restless spirit wanders doomedly through Ueno Park. As he listens to the daily hustle and bustle of Tokyo, he recalls his innermost stories...
How did Kazu's life become a ghostly existence? And why were moments of beauty and grace just out of his reach?
A surreal and devastating, yet moving and endlessly poetic story of life and death, of modern Japan and those who must disappear for a while, or perhaps forever...
Here Kazu's life began in Tokyo as a laborer in the run-up to the 1964 Olympics, and here he ended his days, shocked by the 2011 tsunami and angered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics, living in a tent in a village for the homeless.
Now Kazu's restless spirit wanders doomedly through Ueno Park. As he listens to the daily hustle and bustle of Tokyo, he recalls his innermost stories...
How did Kazu's life become a ghostly existence? And why were moments of beauty and grace just out of his reach?
A surreal and devastating, yet moving and endlessly poetic story of life and death, of modern Japan and those who must disappear for a while, or perhaps forever...
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