A Giant Bookstore: Wandering in a World of Words
Crammed together are magazines and novels, art books and technical treatises. In an era of increasing Internet book sales, streams of people are drawn to actual bookstores, in search of unexpected encounters. The bestsellers on display provide a glimpse of contemporary Japan. Books teaching "self-improvement" attract crowds of office workers on their way home; other shoppers, worn out by the daily grind, find themselves in the "spirituality" book section. All are wanderers in a forest of print.
Aired: Dec 20, 2013 Genre: DocumentaryRating: 0 Country: Japan Production: NHK
Episodes
01: Close contact: The Sleepless Flower Shop in Kabukicho02: Farewell Shibuya, Kamaboko Station Building03: Osaka Kushikatsu Elegy04: Yokosuka Air Base, Operation Matchmaking05: Points of Departure: New Chitose Airport06: In the City of Closed Factories07: Enthusiastic Singing! Hitori Karaoke08: Kyoto Engiri Shrine09: Night Clinic: An ER of Last Resort10: The Live-Streamers: Interactive Webcasting11: Familyless Life Theater12: Underground Idols13: Dreams Bloom at Kochi Racecourse14: In Front of a Giant Manbow15: From the Last Shelter16: Climbing Mt. Fuji17: The "Rain, then Fine" Coin Laundry18: The Happiness Theory of Healthland19: Home Is Where the Locker Is—The Day Laborers of Osaka20: Yanaka Cemetery: Dialogs Between Death and Life21: Fly! Epsilon22: Yoshimoto: Summer Training Camp at the critical moment23: Personal Glimpses at a 24-Hour Gym24: The Game Center and the Prize Beyond the Prize25: The Makeup Room26: In Search of Hiroshima Taro27: Hitchhiking in the Seto Inland Sea28: The Call of the Dunes29: A Giant Travel Agency: Destinations and Detours30: The Post Office That Never Sleeps31: Night Train to Izumo: Destination - Destiny32: A Giant Bookstore: Wandering in a World of Words
