The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky

(2025)

★ 5.3 IMDb · 3 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2025

Runtime: 122 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 荒井晴彦

Cast: 綾野剛, 咲耶, 田中麗奈, 柄本佑, 宮下順子, 岬あかり, MINAMO, 原一男, 井上淳一

Plot

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.