A decade in isolation, one actress, and a love story that eats itself alive.
A reclusive filmmaker, who has isolated himself for a decade after squandering his inheritance, is dragged to a theater by a concerned friend, but his life takes a twisted turn when he meets an actress whose presence reignites his dormant creativity, sparking a delusional love story that spirals into madness.
Direction
Hiranami traps you in the protagonist's crumbling psyche.
Acting
Hirano's unraveling is physically uncomfortable to witness.
Cinematography
Theater spaces become suffocating cages of false intimacy.
Director
Wataru Hiranami
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapts a Japanese novel exploring hikikomori-adjacent isolation, a phenomenon where social withdrawal becomes total existence.
JP
