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The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky

2025 · 122 min 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.

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Original Title 星と月は天の穴
Year 2025
Country Japan
Genre Drama
Director Haruhiko Arai
Runtime 122 min.

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

The film maps the landscape of inner desolation with surgical precision, turning silence and pauses into the primary narrators of its drama. Each frame acts as a mirror to the protagonist's soul, where a glance out a window or a reflection in a whiskey glass speaks volumes.

What lingers after the credits is a slow, inexorable immersion into a labyrinth of memory and guilt, where the resolution offers not comfort, but a bitter clarity. This is a story not about healing, but about the courage to face one's wound — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Haruhiko Arai

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Alone, late at night, with dimmed lights and no distractions.

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