Film

To Pen a Book

Director

Tetsuo Shinohara

Year

2024

Tetsuhiro is on a journey to overcome writer’s block caused by the tragedy of a small village he wrote about in his bestselling novel.

A protagonist, Tetsuhiro is on a journey to overcome writer’s block that was caused by the tragedy of a small village he wrote about in his bestselling novel. Simultaneously, he visits his favorite book shops, meets with his friends and encounters new people so to ease his emotional pain. From Tochigi, then to Kyoto and finally in Kagawa, he finds his own bestselling book during his journey, but will this give him an answer to the reason why he could not write any more?