Hagane Sakura 鋼の桜
The Nightcap
Hikari Aozora, Live in New York
A late-night talk show, hosted by Julian Cross
Fictional artists and show. Music and visuals made with generative AI. Some New York shots are licensed stock footage.
Fifteen hours in the air, one blue armchair, and a host with a secret.
Hikari Aozora, leader of Hagane Sakura 鋼の桜, sits down for her very first interview in the States. A little nervous, she tells Julian about the quiet house in Saitama where she grew up, her father who took photos just for fun, her mother who taught literature.
About feeling other people's emotions as if they were inside her own chest. And about the tiny café in Shimokitazawa where she was singing, with a very bad microphone, the night someone from the agency was listening.
Then Julian has a surprise. It's lunchtime in Japan.
Now I know it is the reason I can sing what other people cannot say.
A surprise call from Japan
Hikari AozoraThe guestFifteen hours in the air, three movies, not one minute of sleep.
Mayu TsukishiroYokohamaHelping at her mother's café.
Hokori HoshinoOsakaWith her family.
Sora KaguraShimokitazawaHunting for vintage clothes.
Yui KanzakiTokyoTrying to bring Taiyō home. Taiyō has other plans.
Four-seventeenThe week off in Kyoto
DiscographyEvery song of the group
