Yuya ISHII 石井裕也
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always The Densest Shade Of Blue
映画 夜空はいつでも 最高密度の青色だ
Nippon Visions ½
Two lost souls meet in the city jungle of Tokyo. Mika and Shinji, two quirky loners, slowly approach each other and learn that solitude is easier to bear together. The last few years have rarely brought other Japanese films with such unrestrained formal experiments that capture the life of its disillusioned protagonists in a unique way. A movie like its title – both cryptic and sensual.
映画 夜空はいつでも 最高密度の青色だ
Eiga yozora wa itsu demo saiko mitsudo no aoiro da
Japan 2017
108 minutes
Director
Yuya ISHII
Script
Yuya ISHII based on a collection of poems by Tahi SAIHATE
Cinematography
Yoichi KAMAKARI
Production
Little More, FILM-MAKERS, TV Tokyo
World sales
PIA Film Festival
Cast
Shizuka ISHIBASHI, Sosuke IKEMATSU, Tetsushi TANAKA, Ryuhei MATSUDA, Paul Magsalin
About Yuya ISHII
石井裕也
Yuya ISHII, born in Saitama Prefecture in 1983, graduated from Osaka University of Arts. His graduation film and feature-length debut BARE-ASSED JAPAN (2005) was invited to the International Film Festival Rotterdam. His film SAWAKO DECIDES (2010 / NC ’10) had its world premiere at the Berlinale Forum. He won all important Japanese film awards as best director and received an Oscar nomination for THE GREAT PASSAGE (2013). After several big budget films, he returned to his roots in independent filmmaking with THE TOKYO NIGHT SKY IS ALWAYS THE DENSEST SHADE OF BLUE (2017 / NC ’17).