An essay collection by a painter who has moved between Paris and Tokyo, portraying the time lag, memories, street corners, and people of the two cities in words and photographs. Through images and sensations that mingle faster than language, it captures urban change with density.

From the time lag between Paris and Tokyo, lost street corners and the outlines of memory emerge.

A long-form critical study that uses films and Nikkatsu stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s to portray both the brightness and losses of Japan before high economic growth. Through figures such as Yujiro Ishihara and Sayuri Yoshinaga, it reads the changing spirit of postwar Japan.

When film was still the king of entertainment, people looked to the screen for tomorrow.