A Greengrocer Without Borders

The rules of this series are simple: We begin filming at the location and finish shooting 72 hours later. The programme offers viewers a glimps of the drama in people’s everyday lives and a bigger picture of the current society that we live in. In this episode, we cover a small 24-hour fruit and vegetable store in Shin-Okubo. The customers include international restaurant chefs who have been affected by the recession, a Chinese couple who is studying in Japan, a businessman from the Middle East, and a Japanese stripper who makes a midnight shopping run after work. We also meet two young sisters who come to pick up food for the dinner they are preparing for their mother, a Korean researcher. Their Sri Lankan father is working abroad, and the family reveals to us that the earthquake of March 2011 has cast a shadow on their lives.