The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky (2025)

4.0/10 • 122 min • Drama

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.

Cast

Go Ayano

Sakuya

Rena Tanaka

Tasuku Emoto

Junko Miyashita

MINAMO

Kazuo Hara

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