The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky

A 40-something disillusioned novelist, Yazoe, haunted by a failed marriage and a crippling personal secret, navigates hollow affairs with a courtesan named Chieko while projecting his emotional void onto the protagonists of his love novels—until an accidental encounter with a naive college student, Noriko Seyawa, unravels his guarded solitude, forcing him to confront his fear of intimacy and the buried trauma shaping his twisted philosophy on love.

• Haruhiko AraiDirector
• Haruhiko AraiScreenplay
• Itsuro ShimodaOriginal Music Composer

• Go AyanoKatsuji Yazoe
• SakuyaNoriko Segawa
• Rena TanakaChieko
• Tasuku EmotoCast
• Junko MiyashitaCast
• Akari MisakiCast
• MINAMOCast
• Kazuo Haraman in bar
• Junichi InoueCast