Synopsis

For seventy-two hours, runners undertake a grueling 400-kilometer "Survival Run" circling the main island of Okinawa Prefecture in southern Japan. The sixty-eight participants, hailing from all over Japan, speak of the race as an exhausting and torturous ordeal, yet they persist, pushing themselves through day and night. Some claim running offers a refuge from worries and stress, while others derive satisfaction from steadily increasing their distance. We followed them for three days to understa