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Season 9 Episode 16 - The Women on the Cosmetics Floor
Sales at department stores have been sluggish in recent years, but the stores' cosmetics sections are providing a ray of light with their robust growth. In 2017, sales at these sections jumped 17% from the previous year and topped 500 billion yen. Each day, about 2,000 customers buy their preferred makeup products at one long-established department store in Nagoya offering an array of famous brands. These customers include an 88-year-old company executive who never goes without makeup, a young woman setting on a new path in life by changing her job and her makeup, and an art dealer who considers cosmetics to be a vital part of her "combat uniform" worn during business battles. How do women want to present themselves and to be seen? For 3 days, we watched the customers quietly – but excitedly – finding their ideal makeup.
Episodes in Season 9
Shinjuku Hanazono Shrine: Dreams Come True at Night
The Never-Sleeping Bakery: A Gift for Christmas Eve
30 min
Tsugaru Strait New Year's Eve Ferry
30 min
Legendary Game Center: Adults' Battles
COOL! Downtown Asakusa Batting Center
Shibuya: Spring Flowers and Bartering
A Park Where Dreams Take Wing
30 min
Metropolitan Rat Patrol
Searching for Spring in Tohoku: Traveling Along National Route 45
30 min
Street Corner Legal Consultation Office
Traveling Beauty Salon
Running Library to the Island and Mountains
Spring Japan Sea: Waiting for Firefly Squid”
30 min
Osaka, Nishinari: 24-Hour Family Restaurant
The Joys and Sorrows of 1-Yen Pachinko
The Women on the Cosmetics Floor
30 min
People Gathering at Akita's ‘Hot Spring of Life’
Backflip Class: Jump Toward Tomorrow!
The Japan Derby Grand Parade
30 min
Transporting Lives: The Relocation of a Large Hospital
30 min
Goodbye! My Beloved Department Store
Tokyo Bay Midsummer Sea Fishing Park
30 min
Kanmon Strait Undersea Tunnel
30 min
Coast Guard Academy
Surviving the Summer with Fresh Juice
30 min
From the Remittance Office with Love
30 min
