A Spanish director is bringing a distinctly Japanese story to the screen with “Konbini,” a humanistic drama about an elderly man who deliberately shoplifts to get arrested and the convenience store worker who derails his plan.
The project, selected for the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market, follows Kisayo, a struggling sound artist working night shifts at a Tokyo convenience store, who thwarts an old man’s blatant attempt to get himself jailed through shoplifting. An unlikely friendship forms between the two, bridging their very different worlds.
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