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An unusual documentary series that delves into human dramas through chance encounters with ordinary people at selected spots. Filmed over 72 hours in a single location, the show captures glimpses into people's lives as they

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    Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 1 - Local Wrestling, 3-Day Traveling Tour
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    #1 - Local Wrestling, 3-Day Traveling Tour

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    Hokkaido is suffering from a prolonged recession. Ten years ago, a salesman who saw his hometown's exhaustion launched a professional wrestling organization that he loved. In December, the group will hold its winter tour. In December, a winter show will be held, lasting three days. The tour will take place in three locations, including Yubari, where the local government has collapsed. I will accompany the tour and observe people living in rural areas while supporting each other.

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  2. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 2 - Huge Share House for 260 People
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    #2 - Huge Share House for 260 People

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    Last year, Japan's largest share house opened in Kamata, Tokyo. It accommodated a whopping 260 people. When the share house was open to both men and women, it was filled in no time at all. Foreigners who came to Japan for short-term work or study. Some are aspiring artists. Everyone has different goals. Late at night in the common space, one can see people listening to each other's problems. For three days, we placed a camera in a huge share house where various lives are living side by side.

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  3. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 3 - The Fierce Battle! Entrepreneur Contest.
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    #3 - The Fierce Battle! Entrepreneur Contest.

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    An “Entrepreneur Contest” was held last year under the auspices of a global IT company to discover talents who can give shape to innovative ideas more quickly. The duration of the contest was three days and two nights. Participants were divided into teams and worked frantically to come up with new ideas, and then worked tirelessly to brush up their ideas for a presentation on the final day of the contest. The contest not only tests the participants' ability to come up with ideas, but also their ability to coordinate and execute their teams. If they win the competition, they will advance to the world competition and can expect to receive funding from sponsors. This is a coming-of-age story of young people struggling to achieve success.

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  4. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 4 - At the Northernmost Bus Stop
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    #4 - At the Northernmost Bus Stop

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    The far north of Hokkaido, with a view of Sakhalin in the distance. At Cape Soya, where a severe snowstorm blows, there is "Japan's northernmost bus stop. In winter, there are few visitors to the bus stop, and the only view is of the Sea of Okhotsk, but for a few days during the year-end and New Year's holidays, many people gather there. Company employees rethinking their lives, cab drivers returning from migrant work, motorcyclists who have traveled hundreds of kilometers in the snow...these are just a few of the people who gather at the bus stop. For three days, they put aside their usual titles and huddle together as "travelers. What are they seeking in their journey to the north?

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  5. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 5 - Okinawa: The Barbershop that Never Sleeps
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    #5 - Okinawa: The Barbershop that Never Sleeps

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    In downtown Naha City, there is a barbershop that is open 24 hours a day, a rarity in Japan. Customers include children with shaved heads, employees of nearby restaurants, and office workers who can only get their hair cut at night due to their busy work schedule. The three days leading up to the coming-of-age ceremony in particular draw crowds of newcomers who want to enjoy a one-day hair style. Some have returned to Okinawa after having broken their dreams of working outside the prefecture, and others are bidding farewell to their teenage years of wild fun... What are the true feelings of Okinawan men that cannot be experienced on a sightseeing trip?

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  6. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 6 - Fukushima: From a Super Market in Early Spring
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    #6 - Fukushima: From a Super Market in Early Spring

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    Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture. Along the road to the nuclear power plant, there is a supermarket that has seen a significant increase in sales since “that day”. The main products are boxed lunches and side dishes. In the evenings, many workers at the nuclear power plant and decontamination workers come to the supermarket on their way home from work. The city is said to be conversely bustling with people who have come to the area since the accident to help with reconstruction. The program looks at Fukushima today at a supermarket where “local housewives buying ingredients for dinner,” “people who evacuated from villages near the nuclear power plant,” and “workers helping with the recovery” pass by.

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  7. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 7 - Close Encounters! Street Corner Photo Printing Machine
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    #7 - Close Encounters! Street Corner Photo Printing Machine

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    With the spread of digital cameras and smartphones, everyone takes photos with ease. Printing machines at electronics mass merchandisers make it easy to print out the photo data they have taken. People continue to take photos of the food they cook every day. Two people in a long-distance relationship exchange photos of each other. People visit the machines to keep photos of their deceased relatives. We listen to the thoughts of these people who want to print and keep the time they spent with their loved ones and the irreplaceable memories that will never come again.

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  8. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 8 - Life route of a huge ferry
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    #8 - Life route of a huge ferry

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    In Japan, which is surrounded by the sea, it takes time, but it is a ferry that can be moved cheaply. In particular, the route between Nagoya and Sendai and Hokkaido boasts two hundred thousand users per year. In the spring when people start a new life, the ship is filled with a variety of "facts" such as workers moving to Nagoya, which is booming, university students who complete a graduation trip in a cheap and easy country, and a group of dispatched employees who boarded in search of "a relaxing time". What is the current situation in Japan that emerges from the encounter on the ship for three days?

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  9. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 9 - Consumption Tax Increase! 24 Hour Discount Store
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    #9 - Consumption Tax Increase! 24 Hour Discount Store

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    The Shinjuku store of a major discount store boasts a selection of 40,000 items. Customers, including shoppers and residents of the nearby downtown area, are constantly pouring into the store 24 hours a day. The program closely observes the store in the last week of March, which is bustling with “rush demand” before the tax hike. Some shoppers bought large quantities of consumable goods, while others were carried away by the momentum of the rush and grabbed unnecessary items. Then, on the eve of the tax hike, a man rushes into the store... In a corner of the city shaken by the tax hike, we consider what shopping means to us and what consumption means to us.

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  10. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 10 - At the Foot of the Skytree
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    #10 - At the Foot of the Skytree

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    The Tokyo Sky Tree, Japan's tallest structure, opened two years ago. At the base of the tree, which is visited by 100,000 people a day, people are pressing their shutters in various positions to capture the giant tower on their cameras. Some are students who have saved up enough money to climb the tree someday, while others are foreigners who are visiting Japan for their golden wedding anniversary. And at night, young people from all over the Kanto region gather here. Three days at the foot of the giant radio tower, a new landmark in Tokyo that continues to attract people.

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  11. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 11 - Youth Hello Work Youth
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    #11 - Youth Hello Work Youth

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    The economy is on the upswing, and the job offer rate for university students has exceeded eighty percent this spring. However, in Shibuya, Tokyo Wakamono Hello Work = so-called "Wakahalo", more than two hundred young people seeking jobs flock to each day. The popular "regular employee who is rewarding, not dispatch". In addition, the 30s of the Ice Age generation who are trying to change jobs with the driving force of the booming economy .... It is said that a third of university graduates quit within three years of joining the company, and they are closely connected to the consultation desk specialized for under-35s, which is rare in Japan. I looked at the work of young people today.

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  12. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 12 - Ueno Park, Under the Cherry Trees in Full Bloom
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    #12 - Ueno Park, Under the Cherry Trees in Full Bloom

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    Ueno Park is a huge park representing Tokyo. Surrounded by offices, downtown, and residential areas, people spend their time in this vast park. During the cherry blossom season, the park is said to attract 2 million visitors from all over the country. This program closely observes the three days of the weekend when the park is at its busiest. Some locals do exercises while watching the cherry blossoms every morning, some businessmen put all their energy into their company's cherry blossom viewing event, and some people look back over the flowers and think about their farewells in the old days.... Various lives intersect amidst the dancing snowstorm of cherry blossoms.

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  13. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 13 - Midnight Public Restaurant in the Big City
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    #13 - Midnight Public Restaurant in the Big City

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    ShareHelped TwitterFacebook "Utsuya Station" has the fewest passengers on the JR Yamanote Line. During the day, the streets are sparse, but at night, the atmosphere changes completely, and the neon lights of countless love hotels and sex shops shine out. The stage is a popular restaurant that has been open for more than thirty years in the Tokudani. A man and a woman with various circumstances come to the restaurant where you can eat a warm set meal at any time for twenty-four hours to satisfy a small belly and taste the humane. In this city, which has quietly accepted the desires of the people, you can see the drama of adults.

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  14. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 14 - Trunk Rooms: Another Secret Room
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    #14 - Trunk Rooms: Another Secret Room

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    The trunk room is rapidly increasing throughout Japan, saying, "You can store things that cannot be placed at home." It is close to one of the largest stores in the Kansai region near Shin-Osaka Station for three days. In the store, which is lined with rooms of various sizes, people who secretly deposit "secret items that can not be said to anyone" visit every time for twenty-four hours. However, it is difficult to interview only in the hidden world.

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  15. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 15 - Osorezan: Place of the Dead
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    #15 - Osorezan: Place of the Dead

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    When people die, they go to the mountains. It is set in Mt. Osoreyama in Aomori Prefecture, which has been attracting the faith of the people of Tohoku since ancient times. In May, a large-scale consecutive holiday, Mt.Osa, opened the mountain after a half-year winter, and various people from all over the country visited the shrine aiming for a huge sacred place. A couple who visit every year for their lost daughter, "Seijo Girl" who wants to see the red seal. In the unique atmosphere that continues with rocky places, there are also people who suddenly shout the names of the deceased. A power spot that involves all visitors and makes you feel strange. Three days of life and death.

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  16. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 16 - On the Road: “Happiness Theory” on Route 16
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    #16 - On the Road: “Happiness Theory” on Route 16

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    Yokosuka - Machida - Hachioji - Kasugabe and "National Route16" connects the Kanto suburbs. The townscape where there are only large shopping malls and chain stores is attracting attention as "a landscape that symbolizes modern Japan". It took three days to run on the 250km ring road. Listen carefully to what people you meet on the road are happy. A young man who does not want to leave his comfortable hometown, and a homeless man walks silently on the way late at night. What is the happiness of Nippon seen from the 16th Line?

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  17. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 17 - Tropical Nightless City, 24-Hour Supermarket
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    #17 - Tropical Nightless City, 24-Hour Supermarket

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    The western edge of Kagoshima. In Akune City, a city with vast forests and fields and an elderly population of over 40%, there is a huge supermarket that is famous throughout Japan for its wide selection of goods. The store, which is open 24 hours a day, is visited by 80% of the city's population every day. Elderly people standing around in depopulated towns looking for someone to talk to, young people gathering late at night to ask if they can find a good job.... Behind the city's booming economy, the daily lives of people in the countryside who gather for a little entertainment.

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  18. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 18 - Shonan, Reasons to Gaze at the Sea
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    #18 - Shonan, Reasons to Gaze at the Sea

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    In June, the Shonan coast overlooking Enoshima Island. On a clear day, people who cannot wait for summer to arrive come to see the sea. Families frolic in the water by the waves, couples huddle together. Among the happy people, there is one figure that stands out: a solitary person staring at the sea. Tired office workers, women in love. Even at night, people with various circumstances appear one by one on the quiet beach.... What do people think about on a beach where there is nothing but the sea and the sky? A story of three days waiting for summer. 　

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  19. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 19 - At a Gas Station in a Drenching Downpour
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    #19 - At a Gas Station in a Drenching Downpour

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    It was a weekend in June when the Kanto region was hit by heavy rain with the onset of the rainy season. At a 24-hour gas station in Kanagawa Prefecture, soaking wet people rushed in one after another. Construction workers who had to take the day off from work because of the rain, people going to see their children who live far away, men going to work late at night to support their families.... Where do people drive to in the pouring rain? This is a story of people taking a breather at a gas station and waiting for the rain to stop.

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  20. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 20 - What Dreams I Have at the Fishing Pond Late at Night
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    #20 - What Dreams I Have at the Fishing Pond Late at Night

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    Along a national highway in the suburbs of Saitama. There is an indoor fishing pond where men dangle their fishing lines until late at night. Twenty species of fish, including carp and Hakurei, swim in the 20-meter-long pool. You can rent a Saomote, but it is not easy to catch the fish, as they are used to being caught. Visitors include businessmen looking for new jobs, young people discussing their future, and mysterious men in sunglasses who appear late at night. What are the thoughts floating in the minds of these men as they wait patiently for the float to sink? Three days in which life can be seen beyond the fishing line.

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  21. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 21 - Veterinary Hospital in the City that Never Sleeps
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    #21 - Veterinary Hospital in the City that Never Sleeps

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    There is a long-established veterinary hospital in Hatsudai, Tokyo, where emergency patients rush in 24 hours a day. It opened 46 years ago. Every day, about 100 animals are brought in from all over the Tokyo metropolitan area, including dogs attacked by stray cats, hamsters with broken bones, and cats involved in traffic accidents. It has long been called a pet boom, but what stands out is the number of people who take the time to cuddle with a single animal. A housewife caring for a dog with dementia, an elderly man who has lived with a cat for 23 years.... This is a story of people and animals who are bound by a bond stronger than that of family.

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  22. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 22 - Kabukicho Nail Salon: Behind the Scenes of a Woman's Dressing Room
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    #22 - Kabukicho Nail Salon: Behind the Scenes of a Woman's Dressing Room

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    The glamorous world of women spreads out in a room of a building in Kabukicho. It is a nail salon that stays open all night until 8 am. Some are cabaret girls who go there to “please customers,” while others draw pictures of the sea or sunflowers to "give their nails a summery look. Their goal is to enjoy “girl talk that you can only talk about here” in addition to having their nails done. During the three hours it takes to get their nails done, they enjoy chatting about everything from work complaints to relationship advice, which they would not be able to talk about in front of a man. The true faces of the women are revealed through their beautiful nails during these three days.

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  23. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 23 - Summer: The Closest Station to the Nuclear Power Plant
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    #23 - Summer: The Closest Station to the Nuclear Power Plant

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    Naraha Machi, Fukushima, is located within 20 km of the nuclear power plant that caused the accident. Railroads had been out of service since the earthquake, but finally reopened in June this year. The town is now connected to the city by train. There are still only 9 services a day. Many residents are not allowed to stay overnight in the town and have evacuated to other areas. Even so, people from all walks of life now pass by Tatsuta Station, which is located in the center of the town. Former residents on furlough, workers at the nearby Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant. And visitors from afar, hoping to catch a glimpse of the disaster-stricken area. This is a story of three days at a small station.

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  24. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 24 - “On the Shore with a View of the Atomic Bomb Dome
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    #24 - “On the Shore with a View of the Atomic Bomb Dome

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    It was August 6 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. While the familiar annual solemn peace ceremony is broadcast live on TV, people from all over the world flock to the area around the event site, making their own arguments and performances. Young people singing songs about the atomic bombing, religious groups offering prayers, foreign tourists in a tourist mood, people shouting radical ideas.... Sixty-nine years have passed since the end of the war. In a corner of the park overlooking the A-bomb Dome across the river, three days were spent looking at different forms of peace.

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  25. Document 72 Hours Season 5 Episode 25 - A Small Convenience Store in a Large Hospital
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    #25 - A Small Convenience Store in a Large Hospital

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    Kamogawa, Boso Peninsula. Three years ago, a 24-hour convenience store was opened in a huge general hospital where emergency patients are brought in from midnight to early morning. With a full lineup of hospital supplies and sugar-free meals, the convenience store is constantly crowded with customers throughout the day. A young man who had a car accident and lived for the rest of his life. A hospital patient who cannot sleep at night comes to buy a newspaper early in the morning. Late at night, doctors on the night shift rush in between surgeries to stuff themselves with cup noodles. This is the human side of the convenience store, a beloved “oasis” in a hospital where life and death intersect, isolated from everyday life.

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Local Wrestling, 3-Day Traveling Tour" is the best rated episode of "Document 72 Hours" season 5. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/10/2014. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Huge Share House for 260 People".