Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Tokyo. The neighborhood of bookshops and publishing houses, a paradise for readers. A quiet and timeless corner, a few steps from the subway and large modern buildings. Rows and rows of shop windows packed beyond belief with books, new or second-hand. Not everyone knows him, more attracted to Ginza or the thousand lights of Shibuya. Certainly Tatako - twenty-five years old with a rather colorless life - does not attend him assiduously. Yet this is where the Morisaki bookstore is located, which has belonged to his family for three generations. A shop of just eight tatamis in an old wooden building, with an upstairs room used as a warehouse. It is the kingdom of Satoru, Tatako's eccentric uncle. Enthusiastic and a bit deranged, he dedicates his life to books and to Morisaki, especially since his wife left him. The opposite of Tatako, who hasn't left the house since the man she was in love with told her he wanted to marry someone else. It is Satoru who throws her a lifeline, offering her to move to the first floor of the library. She, who is certainly not a strong reader, suddenly finds herself living in the midst of crumbling towers of books and threatening customers who keep asking her questions and citing unknown writers. Between increasingly passionate discussions on modern Japanese literature, a meeting in a cafe with a shy stranger and revelations about Satoru's love story, he will gradually discover a way of communicating and relating that starts from books and reaches the heart. A more intimate and authentic way of living, without fear of confrontation and letting go.

Drama / Romance