Story 　“Saudade“ Even the Japanese-Brazilian cannot explain Portuguese language easily. Nostalgia, scene, yearning, and things cannot become true even if we long. Kofu city, Yamanashi Prefecture. City center where traffic is sparse. Desolate town with closed shutters everywhere. Engineering works construction industry in brink of collapse. Temporary workers and immigrants from various countries including Japanese-Brazilian. People live ..smell of mud.. desperately. They must ..live... Takeshi, a crew of hip-hop group, begins the temporary work as a construction laborer of lower layer. Takeshi's parents went into personal bankruptcy and started to make a living by pachinko, and now his family have changed completely. Not only the Japanese but also a lot of Japanese-Brazilians were working at the construction site. There, Takeshi meets Seiji and Hosaka who just returned from Thai. After work, Takeshi is brought to a Thai pub. Takeshi feels odd because Hosaka and others are enjoying, and that makes Takeshi 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 guest Yumi, and gives herself into the gorgeous world. Keiko begins doubtful business. Seiji gets irritated with Keiko, and starts to be attracted by Thai hostess's Miao. Subcontractor is cornered, and closes the business. Hosaka tries to abandon this town. The recession becomes serious, and the Japanese-Brazilians get dismissed by first. You can do nothing but leave Japan where you lived long, and return to your 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, Takeshi's ex-girlfriend, was there. Mahiru believes in symbiosis with the immigrants. Takeshi tries to support himself by hating them. Abhorrence toward immigrants, passing each other with Mahiru, family's collapse, and the serious recession that corners people Something swells up in Takeshi -. 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.