Tasogare Out Focus

Mao Tsuchiya and Hisashi Ootomo share a dorm room under three simple rules meant to protect their privacy and keep their arrangement uncomplicated. That balance starts to collapse when Mao’s film club casts Hisashi as the lead in a boys’ love movie and Mao, as the cinematographer, must frame every intimate scene.

Watching his roommate through the camera forces Mao to admit that his feelings are no longer as neutral as he pretends. Around them, other members of the film club stumble into romances of their own, discovering that affection outside the frame is far harder to direct than anything written into a script.