Story Kofu city, Yamanashi Prefecture. No special city. City center where traffic is sparse. Desolate town with closed shutters everywhere. Engineering works construction industry in brink of collapse. Temporary workers and foreign labors from various countries including Japanese-Brazilian and Japanese-Thai. Takeru, a crew of hip-hop group “Army Village,” begins the temporary work as a construction laborer of lower layer. Takeru's parents went into personal bankruptcy and started to make a living by pachinko, and now his family has changed completely. Not only the Japanese but also a lot of Japanese-Brazilians work at the construction site. There, Takeru meets Seiji, and Hosaka who just returned from Thai. After work, Takeru is brought to a Thai pub. Seiji looks like he is having fun with Miao, Thai hostess. Takeru experiences odd feeling toward Hosaka, Seiji and others who are enjoying, and that makes Takeru hostile to the immigrants. "North Koreans are exploiting the Japanese with pachinko !" Meanwhile, Seiji's wife Keiko who works as the esthetician is seduced by celebrity client Yumi, and gives herself into the gorgeous world. Keiko begins dubious business. Seiji gets irritated with his wife Keiko, and starts to be attracted by Thai hostess Miao. He starts to dream of giving up everything he has and living with Miao in Thai someday. Miao wants to keep working for her family in Thai. Subcontractor is cornered, and closes the business. Hosaka tries to abandon this town. “Saudade“ Even the Japanese-Brazilian cannot explain this Portuguese word easily. Nostalgia, scene, yearning, and things cannot become true even if we long. The recession becomes serious, and foreign labors get dismissed by first. They can do nothing but leave Japan where they lived long, and return to their far homeland, aimless… They worked, raised children, and had lived in this country, Japan. Their hometown is this country, and these towns. Shout, but disregarded. Desires do not meet, and cross. Just for a fragile pleasure of forgetting the hardship, they gather around, sing and dance. In the circle of exchanging courtesies of the immigrants, Mahiru, Takeru's ex-girlfriend, was there. Mahiru introduces Takeru Hip-Hop group “Small Park” which Japanese-Brazilian Dennis belongs. Mahiru believes in symbiosis with the immigrants. Takeru tries to keep himself by hating them. Recession that gets people into tough corner. Family collapses. Abhorrence toward immigrants. People passing each other… Something swells up in Takeru. Two years from the movie "The Route 20 National Road" that depicts the desperate lives of young people living in roadside. The story begins to move now. Translated by Ayako Kamegai このサイト内の全ての画像・文書・情報について複製や無断転載等を禁じます。 © 2009 REALWAVE Inc. All rights reserved.