Kawasaki Keirin

In the industrial city of Kawasaki on the corner of the street where my grandparents used to live bettors of keirin a cycling race developed in postwar gather in a tiny bar busy drinking chatting and gambling at the velodrome nearby Most are old men who struggle to make a living for themselves most have lived in this town their whole lives This film frankly captured with a fixed camera gives voice to the lives of the elderly men who have been left behind by Japans economy