The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2017-02-13
Runtime: 108 mins
Director: Yuya Ishii
Spoken language: 日本語
Genres: Drama
Original title: The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
Production Companies: Little More, TV Tokyo, Film Makers, Tokyo Theatres Company, Pony Canyon, The Asahi Shimbun
Production Countries: Japan
Cast
Shizuka Ishibashi
Sosuke Ikematsu
Ryuhei Matsuda
Mikako Ichikawa
Tetsushi Tanaka
Ryo Sato
Takahiro Miura
Yoshimi Nozaki
Paul Magsalin
Natsuki Satou
Bokuzo Masana
Reiko Tajima
Hiroko Isayama
Sakiko Bokumoto
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