The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky
2025•III•2h 2m•5.0•Released
Drama
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.
Director
Haruhiko Arai
Writer
Haruhiko Arai
Languages
Japanese
Studio
Happinet Phantom Studios
Cast
Go Ayano
Katsuji Yazoe
Sakuya
Noriko Segawa
Rena Tanaka
Chieko
Tasuku Emoto
Junko Miyashita
Akari Misaki
MINAMO
Kazuo Hara
man in bar
Junichi Inoue
Production
Company
Happinet Phantom Studios
Producer
Keisuke Konishi
Producer
Mayumi Shimizu
Producer
Takashi Tanabe
Producer
Makoto Kariya
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