NHK's documentary program "Document 72 Hours" (General TV, Friday 10pm) on February 21 will focus on a supermarket in Nishiwaga Town, Iwate Prefecture, known for its heavy snowfall.
The subtitle of this day's program was "At a supermarket in Iwate, a heavy snow area." From extra-large blocks of beef to seafood such as spiny lobster and cod roe, the setting was a single supermarket in Nishiwaga Town, Iwate Prefecture. This is a heavy snow area where the snowfall in one winter can exceed 10 meters, and many people come to the supermarket despite the continuous snowfall.
There are many customers, including a woman with a large family with growing children, a chef from a local restaurant, a man who runs a hot spring inn, and people from the neighboring Akita prefecture. We set up our camera at this supermarket, which can truly be called the "food base of the region," for three days at the end of the year.
The program is a documentary program that sets up a camera at one location each time and observes the various human dramas that occur there for 72 hours. It listens to the stories of people who meet by chance and captures the "present" era.
