Based on a number of true stories, "Tokyo Troubadour" tells the touching and beautiful tale of a very successful and very wealthy middle-aged American technologist and entrepreneur, Ben Danieli, who always had a lifelong love of music and, after a number of business trips to Japan, becomes intrigued with the idea of assuming an alternate traveling persona, in effect a second identity or parallel life, and begins to spend an ever-increasing amount of his spare time while in Tokyo performing as a local street musician.
It’s 1989, and a chance meeting, while performing in a local park, with a beautiful young woman who works as a hostess at a nightclub in Tokyo's Ginza district, inexorably leads Ben into a complicated, intriguing world of centuries-old Japanese traditions, cultural differences, and slowly-developing, yet long-lasting friendships. As Ben and the young woman, Kyoko, grow closer and eventually become lovers, their lives are suddenly and tragically torn apart by the devastating, cataclysmic Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. It is how they deal with, and conquer, the challenges brought on by the forces of society, nature, and fate that forms the basis of this haunting story, a story that twists and turns its way over five decades to an emotional, moving denouement that will touch the hearts of men and women alike, but perhaps for totally different reasons.