The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky (2025)
Original title: 星と月は天の穴
The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky is a 2025 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Haruhiko Arai, with a running time of 2h 2m. It stars Go Ayano, Sakuya and Rena Tanaka.
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.