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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
Go AyanoKatsuji Yazoe
SakuyaNoriko Segawa
Rena TanakaChieko
Tasuku EmotoCast
Junko MiyashitaCast
MINAMOCast
Kazuo Haraman in barExplore the crew
- Director
- Haruhiko Arai
- Screenplay
- Haruhiko Arai
- Producer
- Keisuke Konishi
- Producer
- Mayumi Shimizu
- Producer
- Takashi Tanabe
- Director of Photography
- Koichi Kawakami
- Producer
- Makoto Kariya
- Editor
- Chieko Suzaki
- Original Music Composer
- Itsuro Shimoda