A linked story collection about a young woman living alone in a corner of the city and the dreams of those who gather around her. It catches the feelings of people distant from family and love in lucid prose.

The dreams of lonely people quietly cross in a corner of the city.

A work by Fusao Okubo centered on sea rituals and communal memory. Life, belief, and time by the shore overlap in prose with a folkloric texture.

In seaside ritual, people's memories and prayers overlap.

A critical study of the American film industry through law and economics, including contracts, copyright, production finance, and distribution. It analyzes the power relations behind the glamour of movies.

It reads the mechanisms of contracts and capital that move the dream of movies.

A related book on Naoto Takenaka's directorial debut, the film adaptation of Yoshiharu Tsuge's manga The Man Without Talent. It conveys the process of translating the original's sadness and humor into cinema.

It gathers perspectives for carrying Yoshiharu Tsuge's world into film.

tatsuya: To the Side of the Beloved by 鐘下辰男 is a Japanese stage work. 劇団THE・ガジラの初演で知られる演劇作品。親密な関係と喪失感を軸に、身体性の強い舞台表現で人物の切迫した感情を描く。

tatsuya: To the Side of the Beloved distills the author's eye and style into a compact work.