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The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue

2017 · 108 min

A quiet, poetic drift through two lonely lives in Tokyo, more mood than plot, asking you to sit with the ache.

Directed by
Yuya Ishii
Genres
Drama
Starring
Shizuka Ishibashi, Sosuke Ikematsu, Ryuhei Matsuda
Tagline
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.

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Directed by
Yuya Ishii
Genres
Drama
Starring
Shizuka Ishibashi, Sosuke Ikematsu, Ryuhei Matsuda
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • loneliness
  • isolation
  • love
  • identity
  • work
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
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Starring
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Cinematography
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Runtime
108 min
Country
Japan
Languages
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