Pale Moon (film) ... Pale Moon (紙の月, Kami no Tsuki) is a 2014 Japanese crime drama film directed by Daihachi Yoshida and based on a novel by Mitsuyo Kakuta. [1][2]
Umezawa Rika, a housewife working part-time at a bank, collects customer deposits. Though praised for her work ethic, she feels a growing emptiness as her relationship with her husband deteriorates. She begins an affair with a university student, Kota, an
The economy backdrop and the social issues brought about from the movie and the book are interesting though: after the economy bubble burst in the 1990s in Japan, everyone work hard to maintain a life their parents take for granted.