With a screenplay by Aki Kajiwara and direction by Bunaki Takahashi, this is a story of “social isolation”. Itatani plays the main character, Kitabayashi Sanchiko, who sells jewelry she makes at her studio during the day and works part-time as a lodger at a yakitori restaurant at night, but loses her job and home due to the epidemic. There are no new jobs and the family restaurant and manga cafe are closed. Standing in front of the desperate Mitsuko is a bus stop illuminated by streetlights. No one can see the weakness and she becomes a homeless person who spends the night at the bus stop.Read More »
