The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue

Feb 13, 2017

1h 48m

★ 6.8

Can loneliness be experienced together?

Overview

Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls' bar. Shinji is blind in one eye and ekes out a living as a construction worker. Young and grown-up at the same time, they both lead a lonely existence, but somehow their paths keep miraculously crossing under the Tokyo sky.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Little More

TV Tokyo

Film Makers

Tokyo Theatres Company

Pony Canyon

The Asahi Shimbun

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Cast

Mika

Shizuka Ishibashi

Shinji

Sosuke Ikematsu

Tomoyuki

Ryuhei Matsuda

Mika's Mother

Mikako Ichikawa

Iwashita

Tetsushi Tanaka

Rei

Ryo Sato

Makita

Takahiro Miura

Ryoko

Yoshimi Nozaki

Andres

Paul Magsalin

Mika's Younger Sister

Natsuki Satou

President

Bokuzo Masana

Patient

Reiko Tajima

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