06 Dec 2005
Memoirs of a Geisha
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
Can loneliness be experienced together?
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.
Top Billed Cast
石橋静河 Mika
池松壮亮 Shinji
松田龍平 Tomoyuki
市川実日子 Mika's Mother
田中哲司 Iwashita
佐藤玲 Rei
三浦貴大 Makita
野嵜好美 Ryoko
Paul Magsalin Andres
Natsuki Satou Mika's Younger Sister
正名僕蔵 President
田島令子 Patient
伊佐山ひろ子 Chinese Restaurant Employee
Sakiko Bokumoto Woman
Minori Tokuhashi Nurse
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