NHK's documentary program "Document 72 Hours" (General, Friday 10pm). On April 18th, the show will be set in the "shuttered town" of Nishiyanagase in Gifu City. Although the bustle of the area when it flourished as a night town is gone, the show looks at the lives of the people who remain today.
In Nishiyanagase, Gifu City, there is a shopping district where nearly 90% of the stores are shuttered. A bar hostess who has worked there for nearly 50 years. An elderly man who cleans the shopping district as a part-timer. A young man who plans events in vacant buildings. After the war, this town thrived on the textile industry and became known nationwide for the hit song "Yanagase Blues." What would we see if we set up a camera here in this now-shuttered street?
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.
