Three friends, one mysterious book, and the slow unraveling of everything they thought they knew.
Yuri, Moeko, and Ai are best friends from high school. Though their twenties were about to end, they believed their eternal world would remain forever. In spite of their will, some misfortunate events such as love, betrayal, memory, regret, and one book with its secret exam their friendship. Those girls get lost in the unveiled story, which is filled with meeting and parting. Scattered life = scattered story will move on any further? A little journey begins now.
Direction
Ito fragments time like memory itself.
Writing
The book-within-film device actually earns its pretension.
Director
Takehiro Ito
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in ten days on micro-budget, mostly improvised around the book prop they found day one.
Part of Japan's 'lost decade' cinema exploring twenty-something paralysis; rarely distributed outside festivals.
JP
