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After a blackout takes over the entire country, a family from the city starts traveling to their grandfather's house in the countryside, hoping to find a new lifestyle.
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00:00In Tokyo, the dysfunctional Suzuki family lives in a suburban apartment complex.
00:04Mitsu's wife is talking to her father, Sasaki.
00:06who has sent the family a box of fresh vegetables and fish.
00:09He wishes they had visited later.
00:11When Mitsu tries to get her daughter Yui to talk to her daughter,
00:14She doesn't want to do that and complains about her daughter.
00:17After the call, Mitsu tries to prepare the fish,
00:19but she finds it very unpleasant.
00:21His daughter Yoshiyuki doesn't want to say.
00:23So the fish ends up in the freezer.
00:25When you see a bug in the vegetable,
00:26they freak out so much that they don't even notice that it's actually Yui's fake eyelashes.
00:31Yoshiyuki ignores everything and keeps asking for food,
00:33while Yui only has eyes for her phone.
00:35So it's up to Mitsu to throw the bug away.
00:37Eventually the son Kenji arrives, but he doesn't greet anyone.
00:40He never takes off his headphones,
00:42and when Mitsu asks him if he wants dinner,
00:44he just shows her the fast food he bought and goes to his room,
00:47without saying a single word.
00:48In their rooms, the siblings only spend time on their screens.
00:51Mitsu is worried about the smartphone bills,
00:53and asks Yoshiyuki to talk to his kids about it.
00:55But he only pays attention to the TV.
00:57The next morning, Yoshiyuki oversleeps,
00:59because his alarm clock hasn't rung.
01:01He checks it to discover that the hands are stuck at 3.
01:03Mitsu informs him there's a blackout while throwing away the fish.
01:07Soon Yui wakes up too,
01:08and freaks out because his phone is out of battery.
01:10Mitsu wants to make breakfast,
01:12but can't because the rice cooker and the electromagnetic stove aren't working.
01:15She manages to turn on a gas burner.
01:17However, the family refuses to wait,
01:18and leaves without eating.
01:20Unfortunately, the elevator isn't working either.
01:22So, all the residents have to go down several flights of stairs.
01:25At the station, the trains aren't working either,
01:27and nobody knows when they'll summarize.
01:29So, Yoshiyuki has to walk to the office.
01:31Meanwhile, Kenji is going to class on his bicycle,
01:33and notices that your phone has quickly run out of battery.
01:36In fact, the only thing moving on the streets is bicycles,
01:39because cars have stopped working as well.
01:41A taxi driver tries to restart his engine,
01:43with some water, to no avail.
01:45Outside her building,
01:46Mitsu talks to the neighbors,
01:47and they confirm nobody has power.
01:48The ladies decide to go shopping for candles,
01:51and Mitsu wants to come along,
01:52only to realize she left her wallet in the apartment.
01:54When Yoshiyuki arrives at his company,
01:56everyone is outside because the doors have electric locks that won't open.
02:00Two men decide to break the glass,
02:01so everyone can come in.
02:03Employees have to take the stairs to their offices,
02:05but they realize they can't work,
02:06because there are no lights and no computers.
02:08At school,
02:09Yui discovers all her classmates are arriving late,
02:11and nobody has a working phone.
02:13Some teachers can't even come to work.
02:15So many classes are sent to the study hall.
02:17At college,
02:18Kenji is going through the same situation.
02:20At the grocery store,
02:21Mitsu discovers that the pre-made food shelves are already empty.
02:24People are buying things like candles and water in great quantities,
02:26So she does the same.
02:28The store employees announce that they can't take credit cards because of the blackout,
02:31so clients can only pay in cash.
02:33Everyone rushes to the nearest ATM.
02:35However, these aren't working either.
02:37After a few hours of waiting and doing nothing,
02:39Yoshiyuki's boss sends everyone home early.
02:41Refusing to walk again,
02:43Yoshiyuki decides to buy a bicycle.
02:44Unfortunately, prices have gone up to the extreme,
02:47because everyone is desperate for one.
02:49So Yoshiyuki has no choice but to pay extra.
02:51When he arrives at his building,
02:53he finds an old lady resting on the stairs,
02:55because climbing so many steps is too much for her.
02:57Later, while the family has dinner by candlelight,
02:59Yoshiyuki insists on working with pen and paper.
03:02Anytime they use the toilet,
03:03they have to flush it by throwing water from the bathtub.
03:06There's no water in the kitchen sink,
03:07So Mitsu can't do the dishes.
03:09Meanwhile,
03:09Yui tries to read a magazine by candlelight
03:11and comes so close to the flame
03:13that she burns her hair.
03:14Tired of doing nothing in their rooms,
03:16the siblings come out,
03:17and Mitsu invites the whole family to the balcony.
03:19Since there isn't a single city light,
03:21there's a wonderful view of the stars.
03:23Two days later,
03:24Power still hasn't come back.
03:25Mitsu is washing clothes by hand,
03:27using water from the tub.
03:28At school,
03:29Yui only finds a handful of students,
03:31So she decides to leave.
03:32At the office,
03:33the boss announces that the company will be closed
03:35until power is restored.
03:36Then,
03:37Yoshiyuki watches his boss leave with his family for the mountains,
03:40hoping to find water and food there.
03:42When he turns around,
03:43he discovers a guy trying to steal his bicycle
03:45and quickly scares him away.
03:46In the meantime,
03:47Kenji rides his bicycle to the next town,
03:49only to discover that power is down here too.
03:51He's looking for the girl he likes,
03:53but when he sees her come out,
03:54He panics and hides.
03:55His bicycle falls and hurts his foot
03:57while he watches the girl leave town with her family.
03:59At the water treatment plant,
04:01Mitsu and other neighbors wait for hours to fill their bottles.
04:04However,
04:04the employees informed them that they've shut down the building
04:06because the pumps aren't working.
04:08There's water underground,
04:09But since it's not treated,
04:10it can be dangerous to drink it.
04:12So they refuse to gather it by hand.
04:13The crowd protests at the lack of help.
04:16At the bank,
04:16Yoshiyuki hears bankers explain that
04:18ATMs and debit cards aren't working.
04:20So the only way to get cash is by presenting an ID
04:22and the bank passbook.
04:24Each person is only allowed to withdraw the equivalent of $600.
04:27People freak out and start pushing each other
04:29as they try to get in first.
04:30They cause Yoshiyuki to drop all his paperwork,
04:33and when he tries to pick it up,
04:34They end up hurting him.
04:35He has to escape to take care of his bleeding nose.
04:38On the seventh day of the blackout,
04:39grocery stores are empty and schools are closed.
04:42Some people have traveled to neighboring towns
04:43in search of food and water
04:44only to find the same situation.
04:46More and more citizens are leaving Tokyo by the hour,
04:49hoping to find a solution in the countryside.
04:51After a pointless meeting with their neighbors,
04:53Yoshiyuki and Mitsu check on an old lady in their building
04:56who they haven't seen in a while.
04:57It turns out she's died.
04:59and her family has come to retrieve the body.
05:01After this shock,
05:02the couple decides it's time to leave the city too.
05:04So they informed the kids that they'll travel
05:06to stay with their grandfather.
05:07When Yui protests because she finds little villages boring,
05:10Mitsu points out that she used to like playing
05:12on the village's beach when she was a child.
05:14But Yui doesn't remember this.
05:15Afterward, the family starts packing,
05:17and a frustrated Kenji throws away the picture
05:19of the girl he likes.
05:20Everyone puts any cash they can find on the table,
05:22and Mitsu reveals she's got a decent amount of money
05:24she's been saving for emergencies.
05:26On their way out,
05:27the family hears the barking of an abandoned dog,
05:29But they ignore it.
05:30The siblings have bicycles,
05:31but Mitsu has to share with Yoshiyuki.
05:34They start making their way to the airport,
05:35and notice lots of residents leaving on foot.
05:37There are also many people selling food and water,
05:40but Yoshiyuki refuses to pay for their crazy prices.
05:43Unfortunately, the further they go,
05:44the higher the prices are.
05:46Eventually, they stop at a store,
05:47and Mitsu manages to negotiate with the clerk
05:49to get a good price for a big order.
05:51This is a good moment for them to rest and eat something.
05:53The siblings watch a man getting an impressive number of fish from River,
05:57yet they find it disgusting.
05:58When they try to go to the public bathroom,
05:59the smell is unbearable because the toilets haven't been flushed for days.
06:03They have no choice but to do it behind the bushes.
06:05When the family finally makes it to the airport,
06:07there's a desperate crowd gathering outside.
06:09The plans aren't working either,
06:10and the cops try to put up a barrier to keep people away.
06:13Half of the crowd gets angry and attacks the officers,
06:15while the other half walks away.
06:17In the evening,
06:18the family decides to stay at the closest motel
06:20and you have to pay too much for the room.
06:21Yoshiuki announces they'll travel to the village by bicycle,
06:24and Yui spends several minutes complaining about it.
06:27The next morning,
06:27the siblings break into a library to get a map,
06:29but all of them are gone except for one for kids.
06:32Kenji does some calculations,
06:33and concludes it'll take them a month
06:35to reach the village by bicycle.
06:37Meanwhile,
06:37Yoshiuki and Mitsu are looking for a bicycle for her,
06:40and find one outside a rice store.
06:41The clerk isn't taking cash or expensive objects.
06:44She only exchanges rice for water or other food.
06:46The couple convinces her to give them the bicycle
06:49and a bag of rice in exchange for some bottles of alcohol.
06:52When the family finally leaves,
06:53they keep encountering closed roads,
06:55and Yoshiuki concludes that the kiddie map is useless.
06:58Then they decide to take the expressway,
07:00since nobody is asking for money at the booths.
07:02On the highway,
07:03they discover hundreds of people leaving the city.
07:05Sometime later they stop to rest at a mall,
07:07But the doors are locked.
07:08So they have to camp outside.
07:10When a desperate couple asks them if they have water to share,
07:12Mitsu hides their bottles,
07:13and Yoshiuki tells them they don't have any left.
07:16That night,
07:17the family has trouble sleeping because it's very cold.
07:20Kenji discovers a guy stealing their water,
07:21and immediately runs after him,
07:23following him into a tunnel.
07:24When he's about to attack,
07:25he notices that the robber has a baby,
07:27so he lets him have the water.
07:28The next day,
07:29the family gets ready to cross that tunnel,
07:31and finds a group of blind ladies at the entrance.
07:33They offer to guide people if they're paid properly.
07:35Since the tunnel is a simple straight road,
07:37the family ignores them and moves ahead.
07:40However,
07:40the darkness soon gets them in trouble.
07:42They keep bumping into abandoned cars,
07:43and stepping on nasty stuff like a dead raccoon.
07:46They end up going back and paying a blind lady,
07:48who easily guides them through the exit.
07:50On the 16th day of the blackout,
07:52the family remains near the river,
07:53and take the chance to wash some clothes.
07:55They're almost out of matches,
07:56and there's no water left.
07:58Yoshiuki decides to drink from the river,
08:00ignoring his family's warnings.
08:01In the afternoon,
08:02a heavy rainstorm hits the area,
08:04so the family is forced to take shelter under a bridge.
08:06While they watch their bicycles,
08:08and things being blown by the wind,
08:09Yoshiuki suddenly runs to the middle of the field.
08:12It turns out he has diarrhea because of the river water he drank.
08:15When the storm is finally over,
08:16the family starts picking up their things,
08:18which have spread all over the place.
08:20Mitsu's glasses are cracked,
08:22the rice is dirty on the ground,
08:23and a bicycle tire has been destroyed.
08:25Yoshiuki is still feeling sick,
08:27so the family rushes to the nearest town.
08:29While the parents rest,
08:30the siblings break into a supermarket.
08:32Unfortunately,
08:32There's no food.
08:33matches,
08:34or tires left.
08:35The only things they record are flare,
08:37cat food,
08:37and battery liquid,
08:38which is purified water,
08:40and therefore edible.
08:41When they return to camp,
08:42Yui tries the cat food,
08:43and spits it because it's disgusting.
08:45Kenji has no choice but to use his silicone foam case,
08:48to fix his bicycle tire.
08:49As days continue to pass,
08:51the family gets used to dealing with the rain,
08:53and eating cat food.
08:54The next time they stop to rest,
08:55They meet the Saito family,
08:56who seems to be doing just fine.
08:58They often went riding through the mountains,
08:59and camped out a lot,
09:00so they know many survival techniques.
09:02There's water seeing through rocks with moss,
09:04and air drying food,
09:05to make it last longer.
09:06They also point out which weeds are edible,
09:08and even recommend eating cicadas.
09:10One of the boys has an old mechanical camera,
09:12that still works,
09:13so he takes a picture of them.
09:14Yui gives him an address,
09:15so he can send a copy later.
09:17Afterward,
09:17the families decide to continue their journey together.
09:20Mitsu and the kids get along with the Saitos,
09:22and they are very grateful for their advice.
09:24But Yoshiyuki is green with envy,
09:25and rides very fast,
09:27as if trying to show off.
09:28When they stop at a bridge to rest,
09:29they see a group of soldiers walking by.
09:31A man explains that they come from a nuclear power plant,
09:34which wasn't working either.
09:35Now, they're going to the next prefecture,
09:37to check on a different plant.
09:38Then the families decide to part ways,
09:40because the Suzuki's are going to Osaka,
09:42to check if the rumors of power working there are true.
09:44On day 43,
09:46the family discovers that Osaka doesn't have power either.
09:49Yui freaks out,
09:49since they don't have food or water,
09:51and an argument ensues.
09:52It ends with the family agreeing,
09:54that Yoshiyuki isn't a responsible caretaker.
09:56While looking around the city,
09:57they're shocked to find lots of people,
09:59eating fish outside an aquarium.
10:00The employees are handing out,
10:01all the aquarium animals to be used as food,
10:03so the family rushes to get online.
10:05Sadly, by the time they make it to the front,
10:07There's no food left.
10:09On day 67,
10:10The group is exhausted.
10:11and they collapse in the middle of the countryside.
10:13A desperate Yoshiyuki grabs a bug,
10:15But before he can eat it,
10:16He sees a pig nearby.
10:17The family works together to surround it,
10:19and after lots of struggle,
10:21Yoshiyuki manages to kill the pig,
10:22as they roll down the hill.
10:24Neither he nor Mitsu wants to cut it open though,
10:26so Kenji is in charge of a knife.
10:28Before he can move,
10:29he's stopped by farmer Tanaka,
10:31who slashes the pig's neck without hesitation.
10:33Afterward, the family drags the dead pig to Tanaka's house,
10:36where they can drink water from a well.
10:38Tanaka explains that his electric fences stopped working,
10:40So all his pigs ran away.
10:42If the family helps him catch them all again,
10:44He'll share his food.
10:45The group agrees,
10:46and Tanaka gives them a very nice breakfast,
10:48That includes smoked pork.
10:49It's so delicious that it makes Yui cry.
10:51After a neighbor comes by to drop some vegetables,
10:54Tanaka forces the family to help him butcher the pig.
10:56They're pretty disgusted,
10:57but push through it for the sake of survival.
10:59This usually takes Tanaka a lot of time,
11:01but now the process is going faster thanks to all this help.
11:04The meat is cut into pieces,
11:05and salted for preservation.
11:07When it's time for a bath,
11:08they have to fill the tub with buckets from the well,
11:10and start a fire with wood,
11:11to heat the water.
11:12That night,
11:13Tanaka lends them pajamas,
11:14that he bought for when his son's family visits.
11:16Those relatives are living in the USA now,
11:18and he doesn't have a way to contact them.
11:20Yoshiuki and Mitsu realize how lucky they are
11:22to still have their kids with them,
11:23and fall asleep holding hands.
11:25For the next few days,
11:26the family spends all their time with chores,
11:28and learn a lot about farm life.
11:30They chase after all the pigs,
11:32and actually have lots of fun bringing them back to the farm.
11:34Yui learns how to sew from Mitsu,
11:36who is in charge of washing clothes.
11:38Yoshiuki chops wood,
11:39and Kenji has better tools to fix his bicycle.
11:42Tanaka asks the family to live with him,
11:44since they're very helpful,
11:45and he hates being alone.
11:46However,
11:47the Suzuki's would rather be with their grandfather.
11:49Thanks,
11:50Tanaka gives them enough smoked pork for the rest of their trip.
11:52A few days later,
11:54the family makes it to the river,
11:55and is devastated to discover that there's no bridge.
11:57Yoshiuki finds an oar,
11:59some rope,
11:59and wood by the shore.
12:00So they work together to build a raft.
12:02First the guys take the women,
12:04and their things to the other side.
12:05Then they go back to get their bicycles.
12:07Suddenly it starts raining,
12:08So they need to hurry.
12:10Yoshiuki and Kenji move as fast as possible,
12:12but unfortunately the raft breaks,
12:14under the weight of the bicycles.
12:15Kenji gives up and quickly swims to reunite with the others.
12:18But the stubborn Yoshiuki keeps clinging to the wood,
12:21and eventually the bicycles push him underwater.
12:23His family screams in despair as they see the current drag him away.
12:26After the rain stops,
12:27Kenji goes looking for his father,
12:29but only finds his toupee.
12:30Everyone immediately breaks down in grief.
12:32On day 94,
12:34the group is following the train tracks.
12:36Mitsu is too depressed to keep walking,
12:38so Kenji has to pull her to make her move.
12:40When they grab some pork from their bags to eat,
12:42a dog approaches them,
12:43and whines to beg for food.
12:44Yui wants to feed the poor thing,
12:46But Kenji scolds her.
12:47The dog steals the pork from Yui's hand anyway,
12:50and runs away.
12:51Soon more dogs will show up.
12:52and a Doberman jumps to grab Mitsu's bag with its mouth.
12:55She tries to take it back,
12:56but the struggle causes her to fall,
12:57and roll down the hill.
12:59The kids immediately rush to help her,
13:01and discover she's broken her ankle.
13:02They help her walk,
13:03after seeing the dogs eat everything in her bag.
13:05When they try to leave,
13:06They walk very slowly,
13:07because of Mitsu's condition.
13:09The dogs quickly come back for more,
13:10so the family holds each other,
13:12and waits for the worst.
13:13At that moment,
13:14a steam train appears on the tracks,
13:16so the dogs run away.
13:17The train stops right in front of the family,
13:19who immediately comes aboard for the rest of their journey.
13:22There are plenty of water bottles to share,
13:23and lots of people from Tokyo,
13:25who are also moving to the countryside.
13:26A doctor bandages Mitsu's ankle,
13:28and asks about their father,
13:30causing the kids to cry.
13:31Meanwhile, on the river shore,
13:32Yoshiyuki wakes up,
13:33and starts walking.
13:34However, he's too weak to go far,
13:36and ends up collapsing against a tractor.
13:37Suddenly, he sees the train passing by,
13:40but he doesn't have the energy to scream.
13:42Luckily, he still has the flare in his pocket,
13:43and manages to light it up just in time.
13:45Mitsu sees him,
13:46and immediately makes the train stop,
13:48so the kids can run to reunite with their father.
13:50Later on the train,
13:51Mitsu gives Yoshiyuki his toupee,
13:53But he throws it away.
13:54When the train goes through a tunnel,
13:56the engine smoke enters the cars through the windows,
13:58and leaves everyone coughing.
14:00It also makes their faces black,
14:01causing them to laugh.
14:02On day 108,
14:04the family finally makes it to the village,
14:05and meets with Sasaki,
14:06who can't believe he's finally being visited.
14:08Two years and 126 days later,
14:11The Suzukis are happy in their new farm life.
14:13They fish,
14:14and enjoy the vegetables they planted themselves.
14:17One morning,
14:18Yoshiyuki is awakened by a strange sound.
14:20He leaves the house to follow it,
14:22and discovers an alarm clock ringing in a storage house.
14:24Suddenly, the village's speakers start playing music,
14:27and all the neighbors come out to look at the streetlights again.
14:30A few days later,
14:31all the original Tokyo residents are back in the city.
14:33On TV,
14:34experts have many theories about the cause of the blackout,
14:37a solar flare,
14:38a comet that came too close to Earth,
14:40and even cyberterrorism.
14:41The Suzukis now spend more time with each other,
14:43and aren't afraid of chores.
14:44They install an old-style landline telephone at home,
14:47and Yoshiyuki keeps using a bicycle to go to work.
14:50When the mailman brings them a letter,
14:51They're delighted to find the picture the Saito boy took of them on the road.
14:54Thanks for watching.
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