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That’s right — three of your favorite boys talkin’ BOY! A preteen boy living on the streets of Tokyo pulls scams to provide for his dysfunctional family. It takes a toll on his body and his mind: He and his stepmom take turns throwing themselves in front of moving vehicles and extorting innocent motorists by threatening to go to the police. The scores keep getting bigger and the opportunities keep shrinking until it seems there’s no way out of the vicious cycle — not with a wounded vet for a dad, a toddler to care for, and another baby on the way. In this episode, we tug at threads about growing wealth disparities during Japan’s “economic miracle,” the boy’s internal fantasies and external realities, and where in the world our friend Aaron Grossman went. References: “Young Boy, Old Soul” by Terry Serres for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “The Films of Oshima Nagisa: Images of a Japanese Iconoclast” by Maureen Turim from University of California Press Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to