Document 72 Hours - Season 5 Episode 17 Tropical Nightless City, 24-Hour Supermarket
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.
Year: 2025
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan
Studio: NHK BS1, NHK, NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Director: NHK, NHK World-Japan
Cast: Ryo Katsuchi, Saniko Ichikawa, Mariko Yagi, Maito Fujioka, Aoi Yamada, Kazue Fukiishi
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First Air Date: Oct 03, 2006
Last Air date: Jul 25, 2025
Season: 16 Season
Episode: 460 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 8.70/10 by 3.00 users
Popularity: 6.0926
Language: Japanese
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Episode
Local Wrestling, 3-Day Traveling Tour
Huge Share House for 260 People
The Fierce Battle! Entrepreneur Contest.
At the Northernmost Bus Stop
Okinawa: The Barbershop that Never Sleeps
Fukushima: From a Super Market in Early Spring
Close Encounters! Street Corner Photo Printing Machine
Life route of a huge ferry
Consumption Tax Increase! 24 Hour Discount Store
At the Foot of the Skytree
Youth Hello Work Youth
Ueno Park, Under the Cherry Trees in Full Bloom
Midnight Public Restaurant in the Big City
Trunk Rooms: Another Secret Room
Osorezan: Place of the Dead
On the Road: “Happiness Theory” on Route 16
Tropical Nightless City, 24-Hour Supermarket
Shonan, Reasons to Gaze at the Sea
At a Gas Station in a Drenching Downpour
What Dreams I Have at the Fishing Pond Late at Night
Veterinary Hospital in the City that Never Sleeps
Kabukicho Nail Salon: Behind the Scenes of a Woman's Dressing Room
Summer: The Closest Station to the Nuclear Power Plant
“On the Shore with a View of the Atomic Bomb Dome
A Small Convenience Store in a Large Hospital
Haneda Airport: From Summer to Autumn
Deep Asakusa, Midnight Coffee Shop
Ueno Ameyoko, Multinational Underground Market
What to Hit: Boxing Gym in a Mixed-Use Building
Koenji, What to Expect at the Public Baths
A Walking Trip Around Yamanote Line - ”Happiness Theory“ in the Center of Tokyo
Kisarazu, Wangan, Big Lunch Box Store Blues
Wandering Shakebai
Osaka Minami, Midnight Underground Tenement
Shinjuku Ni-Chome: A Taste of Mother's Home Late at Night