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The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky
2025 · 122 min
A quiet, introspective character study that drifts through loneliness and buried pain, asking patience as it slowly reveals the wounds beneath a guarded life.
- Directed by
- Haruhiko Arai
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Go Ayano, Sakuya, Rena Tanaka
- Overview
- 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.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Isolation, obsession, identity, trauma
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Haruhiko Arai
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Go Ayano, Sakuya, Rena Tanaka
