NHK's documentary program "Document 72 Hours" (NHK General) will air "Three Days of Heavy Snow: A Kanazawa Rental Car Diary" on March 13th at 10 PM. The program's film crew visited rental car shops in Kanazawa, Hokuriku region, on the day of record-breaking heavy snowfall. Even in such severe weather, human life continues. It cannot be stopped. What are the various reasons why people rent cars...?
The strongest cold wave has hit the Japanese archipelago, and Kanazawa has also been hit by record-breaking snowfall. When I visited a rental car shop along the national highway at that time, I was surprised to see quite a few people there.
A couple heading to a concert in Osaka, a company employee needing a van to carry some of their company's larger products, and a female volunteer transporting relief supplies to Noto. The highways are closed, and rental cars in parking lots are covered in white.
But people still rented cars. Over the course of three days of heavy snowfall, the film listened to each person's unique circumstances.
The program is a documentary that places a camera in one location each time and observes the various human dramas that unfold there for 72 hours. It listens to the stories of people who meet by chance and captures a glimpse of "the present."
