Adrift in Tokyo [2007]
Takemura has no friends and no family. He's a student but he doesn't
have any particular ambitions. In other words, he isn't going anywhere
fast. Were all this not enough, the sorry sad sack has a debt of 800,000
yen. Fukuhara, a surly debt collector with a glorious mullet, is on his
case. After roughing Takemura up, he gives him an ultimatum-72 hours to
pay up, or else. Takemura barely has his wits about him again when he
runs across Fukuhara a second time, and this time the thug has a
different proposal-a walk. That's right, in exchange for a million yen,
Takemura must accompany Fukuhara on a walk across the city of Tokyo.
Starting in a distant corner of the city, they begin their trek towards
downtown, striking up a conversation. It's at this point that Fukuhara
admits that he's recently killed his wife, and intends to turn himself
in at Kasumagaseki police station-because, he says, it's the finest in
town. The pair's itinerary, however, is hardly a quick and direct one.
The disparate duo drift here and there, hanging out and coming across a
host of eccentric personalities, creatures of the urban jungle's various
habitats. As their walking, talking and trading truths continues, the
arrangement between Takemura and Fukuhara starts to transform into
friendship.