Characters & Themes
Tokyo Heaven (1990) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1990 · 109 mins · Japanese
- Directed by
- Shinji Sômai
- Starring
- Kiichi Nakai, Tomokazu Miura, Tomoko Mariya, Tsurube Shofukutei, Shunji Fujimura, Kei Tani
After a pampered young model dies in a traffic crash, she is given a chance to return to the living world. Back on Earth she becomes entangled with the advertising executive desperate to conceal her death. The film blends fantasy with sharp realism, using the luminous glow of advertising imagery to explore life's fleeting nature.
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