Dokushin Apartment Dokudami-sou Episode 1 -

A single (Houttuynia cordata / “fish mint” / chives plant) is growing out of the crack in his balcony concrete. It smells like medicine and rot and life.

He hands over a tuna mayo rice ball, still in plastic. Dokushin Apartment Dokudami-sou Episode 1

(Already drunk) I stole my boss’s golf clubs. Regret: not stealing his car. Hope: that my ex-wife’s new boyfriend steps on a Lego every day for eternity. A single (Houttuynia cordata / “fish mint” /

He looks out. Haruko is doing tai chi on the roof in her tracksuit. Kenji is waving from his window – still no pants. Yoichi is stealing a newspaper from the neighbor’s porch. Toshiko is watering plastic flowers that will never bloom. (Already drunk) I stole my boss’s golf clubs

He signs. INT. DOKUDAMI-SOU, HALLWAY - NIGHT

Soichiro steps inside. A TATAMI MAT is stained with something that might be soy sauce or tragedy. A cockroach salutes him from the sink. But the window faces a single cherry blossom tree, struggling through a crack in the asphalt.