Have you ever replied, when asked how your day was, that it was OK? It’s easy to disregard the small things that may happen in your day, but they all count as being not only fabric pieces that make up your day but also your life.

Yui Kiyohara’s film is a celebration of the mundane, following what takes place in the lives of three women over a course of the same day.

A fairly new section of Tokyo is Tama New Town, where three women live.

There is Chizo (Kumi Hyôdô), a woman who has recently been made unemployed who is now looking for a new job.

Then there is Sanae (Manami Ohba), a gas meter reading, wandering the streets reading the meters of her customers.

And finally there’s Natsu (Ai Mikami) a university student with a love for dance.

They all live in Tama New Town, living very separate lives, but on this day their paths cross as they go about their day.

Japanese director Kiyohara, who also wrote the film, presents a day in the life of...piece, featuring three very different women. It is a quiet, gentle stroll through their day, capturing the everyday-ness of their existence, whilst allowing for an eclipse that allows for the slightest brushing of interaction throughout it.

Much like most of our days, very little happens, the type of things you wouldn’t even mention to someone else due to the insignificance of it all, and yet the director findings a pleasing poetry in the mundane.

Perhaps there’s also a flirting voyeuristic element too, as we get an insight into each of their lives, however brief. In doing so, it reveals itself occasionally to be heartfelt and melancholic, as we discover certain aspects of their lives, such as loneliness and bereavement, which we can all relate too.

It’s deliberately slow, with the loosest of narratives, and yet it has a hypnotic quality that draws you in, as we follow these women throughout their day.

If you’re the type to fall into the kind of YouTube rabbit-hole of views from a train during the entirety of its journey, or perhaps feeding time at a bird table in a far away country, there’s every chance that you’ll find this poetic postcard just as captivating.