The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky

星と月は天の穴

Also known as Hoshi to Tsuki wa Ten no Ana, 별과 달은 하늘의 구멍

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.