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AN EVOCATIVE SETTING / 01He confesses to a murder he remembers. The victim is alive. Setting: duology, Tokyo.
For forty years, customers have told him about lives they never lived. Their stories are beginning to echo one another. Setting: Tokyo.
Every night, he wakes in the apartment where he is married. His partner installs a camera. Setting: Tokyo.
Cycles, Series & AnthologyHe confesses to a murder. The victim is still alive. In Tokyo, Tatsuya Onda brings the police a precise memory of a crime. For Arai and Sakamoto, his account is a puzzle: places, times, verifiable details—and a woman, Mika Shiraishi, who has not been killed. Should they protect a possible victim or watch a man who has done nothing yet?
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Intimacy, Family & RomanceFor forty years, they have told him about impossible lives. Today, their stories begin to connect. At the Kōenji café, Shigeru Arai serves, listens, and lets his customers leave with their silences. He has heard of loves that cannot be found, different families, lives nothing can confirm. Then details begin to align between people who should not share the same memories.
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Crime, investigation & psychological thrillersEvery night, Kenta returns to an apartment where he is married. Miki decides to film him. The place has its routines, its objects, an intimacy that leaves Kenta feeling he has truly lived there. When he wakes, his partner Miki must deal with an absence no doorway explains. A camera might recover facts where memories have taken up all the room.
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