Strange things always happen in Jo Kuroda's mystery novels. There is always a sinister rabbit called Mr Trickster; and someone always ends up dead. A man's wife disappears and he finds her working in a brothel deep in the heart of the city. There is a universe called the Darkland that can only be entered through a hidden tunnel. There is a young girl that the man had an affair with in the dead of winter two years ago. She would only meet him in the eerie crumbling Starfish Hotel. Now she's disappeared too. If you meet Jo Kuroda one night don't tell him your dreams.
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Surreal, noirish mystery drama from Japan-based director John Williams that blends realism and fantasy, as a salesman searches for his missing wife. A devourer of mystery writer Jo Kuroda's novels, salesman Ariso (Koichi Sato)'s take on reality changes rapidly when, searching for his recently missing wife, aspects of the author's latest work, 'Starfish Hotel', start spilling over into his everyday life. Journeying further and further into the writer's alternative universe known as the 'Darkland', an affair he had two years ago with a mysterious girl suddenly re-emerges, and Ariso, struggling to come to terms with this new environment, finds himself desperately trying to stay within the plot.
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