NHK's documentary program "Document 72 Hours" (General, Friday 10 pm). On July 18th, the story will be set in a hardware store in Chiba Prefecture that has been in business for 100 years. What kind of life would we see if we put a camera in a "town general store" that is close to the troubles of local people?
From pots and knives to carpentry tools and farm equipment, the hardware store carries 20,000 different items. Carpenters come to buy essential tools of the trade, such as nails and shovels. Farmers ask for barbed wire to protect their fields from wild animals. There are also requests to repair a hoe that a parent has used for a long time... We conducted fixed-point observations over a three-day period during the "preparation" period before summer.
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.
