If you want to read my review of Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue, read this post. In 夜空はいつでも最高密度の青色だ, Mika has two jobs, day and night. The harshness of the big city created an insurmountable barrier around her. Shinji has a visual impairment, is overloaded with work and bills to pay. But, he possesses unshakable hope. The two try, in their own strange ways, to live together the solitude of Tokyo, in a dense love story.
Mika (Shizuka Ishibashi) works at a hospital during the day and as a hostess at a Girls’ Bar at night. She has already lost belief that love exists and tells herself that it’s okay to hate the world.
“The moment you love Tokyo, it feels like you committed suicide.”
Shinji (Sosuke Ikematsu) works as a day laborer in construction for the Tokyo Olympic Games. He is blind in his left eye and cannot stop talking when anxiety strikes. He is a guy and has a good heart.
“Every month I look at my bills and I go crazy. I’m afraid to open the mailbox.”
Even though Tokyo has 37 million people, their paths cross again and again. Soon, Mika realizes that silence triggers Shinji’s anxiety and he, in turn, realizes that Mika has enormous difficulty showing tenderness to another person. The attraction arises when the two begin to feel comfortable with the fact that the other one is also weird.
Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue: japanese movie review
In the beginning, Mika was meeting Tomoyuki, Shinji’s co-worker. While on the job, Tomoyuki suffers a stroke and dies. In that tragic way, Mika and Shinji see each other again.
“If there is anything I can do for you, let me know.”
Shinji already liked her. But, he was a good guy, he wanted to respect his late friend’s soul. Mika tries to avoid involvement with Shinji as much as possible. She thought being happier in isolation and the relationship wouldn’t add much to her life.
“A woman in love with something ugly, you know?”
Mika thinks it’s crazy that people need love as a reason to live. To move forward. To not go crazy. However, Shinji didn’t give up. Even though he was consumed by the worries and costs of adult life, the desire to see her again remained.
“What do you think love is?”
Mika thought it was a meaningless repetition, between people who had been in relationships before and decided to do the same thing all over again.
I really think Mika didn’t want to be like that. But maybe she understood that feeling this way was the only way. Unfortunately, doing so left her very depressed.
Shinji makes an extra effort to keep his spirits up, as he has lost two friends in the course of his encounters and mismatches with Mika.
“Where are you? I’ll run over there.”
Over time, in their respective strange ways, complicity began to emerge. They started to understand each other, to see the world in a similar way and to be more positive about what the future held. Mika, still had the self-deprecation. But, gratitude for Shinji not giving up on her arises and, little by little, in a very subtle way, she learns to express it.
Reviewing Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue: previous relationships
Before he graduated, Shinji’s classmate loved him and thought he was very smart. But having gone blind in his left eye undermined his confidence in his personal life and the future of his professional career.
Mika’s ex-boyfriend still loved her and wanted to restart their relationship. Even so, she was depressed to the point where she thought that if she died, no one would miss her. Besides, Mika didn’t want to risk being abandoned again.
I think that this great fear of abandonment, which made Mika the way she is, started in childhood, when her mother committed suicide. Since, to this day, she doesn’t know the real reasons why her mother took her own life, she blamed herself.
Why you should watch Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
I won’t leave Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue ending explained or a download link here, but this dense love story between two people trying to live through loneliness together shows that, even if you think you’re a complete disaster in life, there’s always someone who can help share the weight of pain. For being just like you, which would benefit the other person as well, or for understanding what you’re feeling.
This Japanese movie also made me realize that we wonder if we’re going to be able to be happy. But in most cases, we don’t even know what that means. Also, if anything can happen, there’s a chance that something good will happen, not just something bad.
Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue trailer
I really feel that you will like this one. So I decided to do this Yozora wa itsudemo saiko mitsudo no aoiro da review. Go ahead, immerse yourself in the story, the environment and the soundtrack.
And come back later to tell me what you think in the comments. This was one of the densest Japanese movies I’ve seen.
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