Singles Apartment Dokudami-sou(1989)

movie - first aired/released 1989-12-01 - 165 min - audience 6.0

Animation, Comedy

Directed by Hitoshi Oda, Kazunori Tanahashi, T. Tachiga

Yoshio Hori is a day laborer in the 1980s during Tokyo's economic boom. Initially, Yoshio sought out Asagaya to live a free-wheeling lifestyle but that was quickly dropped as he was confronted with reality. He lives a life of extreme poverty and encounters all types of characters from Japan's sub-cultures, including yakuza, drug addicts, and alcoholics.