Adrift in Tokyo

Adrift in Tokyo (2007) — watch online on iFILM — is a dryly funny Japanese comedy from director Satoshi Miki. A yakuza debt-collector named Fumiya is owed seven million yen by a broke law student with nothing to offer. His solution: the two of them walk across the entire city together. No car, no destination, no sense.

As they cross one neighbourhood after the next, the walk turns unexpectedly personal for both men. Miki fills the margins with odd strangers who drift in and vanish like passengers on the wrong train. Quiet, a little melancholy, and stranger than it sounds — this is Japanese indie filmmaking at its most gently subversive. Stream Adrift in Tokyo online on iFILM.