Heaven's Bookstore

Here's a film that posits the afterlife might be a branch library. Kenta, a newly unemployed pianist, accepts a mysterious job offer from a man in a Hawaiian shirt and finds himself in a very quiet bookstore. That this actually sounds like a good job is perhaps the point.

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Tetsuo Shinohara directed Heaven's Bookstore in 2004. See Tetsuo Shinohara's full filmography, where to start with Tetsuo Shinohara, or where to go after you've seen everything by Tetsuo Shinohara.

Heaven's Bookstore was released in 2004 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 111 minutes.