The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue

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The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
File:The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue poster.jpg
Japanese theatrical poster
Directed by Yuya Ishii
Screenplay by Yuya Ishii
Based on Tahi Saihate (ja)
Starring Shizuka Ishibashi
Sosuke Ikematsu
Tetsushi Tanaka
Ryuhei Matsuda
Paul Magsalin
Mikako Ichikawa
Ryo Sato (actor) (ja)
Takahiro Miura
Music by Takashi Watanabe
Cinematography Yoichi Kamakari
Edited by Shinichi Fushima (ja)
Production
company
Little More (ja)
Film-Makers
Distributed by TV Tokyo
Release dates
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  • February 13, 2017 (2017-02-13) (Berlin International Film Festival)
Running time
 108 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (Japanese: 夜空はいつでも最高密度の青色だ Hepburn: Yozora wa itsu demo saikō mitsudo no aoiro da?)[1] is a 2017 Japanese romantic drama[2] film directed by Yuya Ishii.[3] It is based on a book of poetry of the same name written by Tahi Saihate and published in 2016.[4]

The film premiered at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival.[3][1] It features the song "New World" by The Mirraz (ja).[5]

Plot

The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue follows the relationship between two young adults, half-blind construction worker Shinji[2] and nurse-cum-bartender Mika.[3]

Cast

Reception

Reviewing the film after its showing at the Berlin Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter's Deborah Young called The Tokyo Night Sky... "an earnest, at times poetic, drama about teen alienation".[3] Writing for the South China Morning Post, James Marsh said the film "sets itself apart from more commercial romantic fare", but observed that "the narrative seems reluctant to bring its protagonists company".[2]

Mark Schilling, reviewing the film for The Japan Times, found that the movie's "realism... and [its] poetic love story, with coincidence piled on incredible coincidence, make for an ungainly fit", also noting that "the dialogue, much of which seems to have been lifted from Saihate's work, often sounds like nothing anyone would actually say".[4]

References

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Further reading

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External links

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