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Mika (Shizuka Ishibashi) works as a nurse by day and at a girls’ bar by night. Feeling chronic anxiety, Mika constantly deals with death and dying people daily. Meanwhile, Shinji (Sosuke Ikematsu) is almost blind in one eye and lives from hand to mouth as a construction worker. Though surrounded by coworkers, Shinji is possessed by an inexplicable loneliness and uneasiness. The two young people lead a vulnerable existence, and are constantly subject to solitude. They happen to meet each other under the Tokyo night sky and from then on keep crossing paths. Set in Tokyo in 2017, a place where oft-repeated words are losing their gravity, emptiness and hope overlap, and loneliness and love co-exist.
Director Yuya Ishii (The Great Passage) draws on a collection of poems of the same title by noted poet Tahi Saihate, and captures the indescribable tremor of emotions of two young people living in a corner of Tokyo. Ishii presents a stylish romance by using experimental images along with distinct lines of dialogue quoted from the poems.
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