Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has a female fan with the name of Moonlit Night's Star (Sakurako Konishi). She sends letters to Penguin. One day, the female fan appears in front of Akira Takasu and Penguin. These three somehow get involved in a battle between the yakuza.
Cinematography
Spa town steam and neon bleeding together.
Acting
Nagase's weary carver eyes say everything unsaid.
Writing
Dialogue that floats like letters never delivered.
Director
Hajime Kanda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Masaoki Hirota had never made a feature before; this was his chaotic debut.
The spa town setting evokes Japan's 'lost decades'—economic decline as emotional weather.
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