Plot
KENTA (Tetsuji Tamayama), a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named YAMAKI (Yoshio Harada). He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to find himself in a room he has never been in before. It is a strange room that seems to have no connection to life. He descends a staircase to find many shelves of books. Yamaki appears once again, and tells him that this is Heaven's Book Service and Kenta is going to start working a short-term part-time job here. In addition to selling books, this bookstore, owned by Yamaki, provides a service of reading aloud to customers. Although he is unsure of his new surroundings, Kenta follows their actions and starts to work in his new part-time job.
Written by
Atsushi Matsuhisa, Wataru Tanaka, Kyôko Inukai
Directed by
Tetsuo Shinohara
Crew
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Stardust Pictures, TV Asahi, Eisei Gekijo, dentsu, Shochiku, Shogakukan
Languages
Awards
1 nomination