NHK's documentary program "Document 72 Hours" (General TV, Friday 10pm) on March 7th will focus on a meat bun stand located on a street corner in Sendai's Kokubuncho, one of the leading entertainment districts in the Tohoku region.
Hot steaming meat buns stuffed with tender pork, bamboo shoots, wood ear mushrooms, and more. The story is set in a meat bun stand on a street corner in Kokubuncho, Sendai's entertainment district. The store is open until 5am, and many different people visit throughout the night. There are also colleagues from work stopping by after drinking, people buying food to take to their second stop, a man in a black suit from a club after work, and the hostess of a snack bar. Steam rises over Sendai in the winter. We look at the circumstances of each person as they stuff their meat buns under the cold sky.
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.
