Placing an ordinary Tokyo residence inside an self-driving double-decker bus, I use the narrative structure of classic Japanese cinema to imagine the future of Tokyo. Through this setup, I aim to explore the duality of our perception of the urban—a kind of "Rashomon" effect. This is not a prediction of the future, nor a solution, but rather an emotional projection.
After a massive earthquake flattened most of Tokyo (similar to the Great Kanto Earthquake or WW II), homes equipped with AI-driven autonomous tech became mainstream. On a day in 2073, a tsunami warning is issued for a distant region far from Tokyo. An elderly couple living there decides to take the opportunity to evacuate and visit their son, Hirayama, in Tokyo...
