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Season 4 Episode 9 - The Endless Battle for Nighttime Emergency Medical Services
Saitama Prefecture has recently experienced another fatal case due to a case of “tarai” (a kind of “double death”). An emergency clinic specializing in weekend and nighttime care was established in Kawagoe. Volunteer doctors and nurses gathered to improve the current state of medical care. Emergency patients who were refused by other medical facilities are brought in one after another. The film was shot during a major holiday weekend in May. For the patients, there was no other place they could turn to. The staff takes turns taking breaks and tries to hold on through the stormy days. The reality of medical care is a conflict between a sense of mission and a breaking point.
Episodes in Season 4
Close contact: The Sleepless Flower Shop in Kabukicho
Farewell Shibuya, Kamaboko Station Building
Osaka Kushikatsu Elegy
Yokosuka Air Base, Operation Matchmaking
Departure from New Chitose Airport
25 min
In the City of Closed Factories
25 min
Enthusiastic Singing! Hitori Karaoke
Kyoto Engiri Shrine
The Endless Battle for Nighttime Emergency Medical Services
Net Live Broadcasting People
25 min
Familyless Life Theater
25 min
The Youth of ”Underground Idols
30 min
Dreams Bloom at Kochi Racecourse
In Front of a Giant Manbow
From the Last Shelter
Mount Fuji climbing port
Rain or Shine: A Laundromat Tale
The Happiness Theory of Healthland
Nishinari, Osaka - Locker Blues for rent
Midsummer Grave Visit Dialogue with Foreigners
Fly! Epsilon
Yoshimoto: Summer Training Camp at the critical moment
Sweat and Tears in a 24-Hour Gym
25 min
Grab What? Giant Game Center
Powder Room: A Woman's Honne
30 min
In Search of Hiroshima Taro
25 min
Hitchhiking in the Seto Inland Sea
Called by the Dunes
Shinjuku Giant Travel Counter
Postmarked 24-Hour Mammoth Post Office
25 min
Riding the ‘Engimusubi’ (match-making) Train
Walking in a Giant Bookstore, a Forest of Printed Matter
30 min
