Rainy Day Ramen and the Cosmic Pachinko

Unemployed, broke and engaged in a telepathic turf war with a feral cat behind an Okinawa convenience store, 28-year-old Fred Buchanan is hopelessly lost in life. After a fortuitous bet on the island bullfights, he boards a ferry to Kobe then a slow train to Tokyo, chasing shadows of a halogen dream.

Back in Tokyo, past and present collide as an empty orchestra croons a slow dance of people and pl...