The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always The Densest Shade Of Blue

Mika (Shizuka Ishibashi), a nurse, lives alone in a women’s dormitory. She is on a terminal ward, where death is a common occurrence. Her day’s work done, she bicycles off to her second job as a hostess in a ‘girlie bar’. There she sports a fixed smile, but has to fight to hide her sense of pointlessness and isolation. Shinji (Sosuke Ikematsu) is a day-hire construction worker who also lives alone in a cheap apartment. Almost blind in his left eye, he is part of a loose-knit group comprising the older Tomoyuki (Ryuhei Matsuda), the middle-aged Iwashita (Tetsushi Tanaka), and the Filipino guest worker Andres (Paul Magsalin), but even these friendships cannot allay a vague sense of anxiety.