The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky

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

Directed by Haruhiko Arai

Drama · 2h 02m

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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Cast

Go Ayano Katsuji Yazoe Sakuya Noriko Segawa Rena Tanaka Chieko Tasuku Emoto Junko Miyashita
A
Akari Misaki MINAMO Kazuo Hara man in bar
J
Junichi Inoue

Crew

Director
Haruhiko Arai
Screenplay
Haruhiko Arai
Novel
Junnosuke Yoshiyuki
Director of Photography
Koichi Kawakami
Original Music Composer
Itsuro Shimoda
Editor
Chieko Suzaki
Producer
Keisuke Konishi, Mayumi Shimizu, Takashi Tanabe, Makoto Kariya

Details

Original title
星と月は天の穴
Release date
2025-12-19
Runtime
2h 02m
Genres
Drama
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
Happinet Phantom Studios