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

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.

Released

2025-12-19

Genres

Drama

Runtime

122 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Haruhiko Arai, Haruhiko Arai

TMDB rating

5.3/10 from 3 votes