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Tokyo Noir is an omnibus of three short stories delving into the lives of contemporary Japanese women and their attitudes towards the sex industry. In the first story, a woman (Takami Yoshimoto) with a repressed libido finds freedom of expression when she starts turning tricks. In the second, Aimi Nakamura plays a popular sex worker in a Tokyo brothel, who is taken by surprise when her ex-boyfriend comes by to visit. In the last tale, Aya Seki writes about her sexual experiences on a blog and ends up befriending a lonely woman. Three tales of contemporary Japanese women living in Tokyo, the films are also a compendium of frequently unseen or unarticulated ideas of sexuality.