Every Trick In The Book (2021)

Profile

• Movie: Every Trick In The Book (English title) / The Method of Repulsing the Dove (working title)
• Romaji: Hato no Gekitaiho
• Japanese: 鳩の撃退法
• Director: Hideta Takahata
• Writer: Shogo Sato (novel), Kiyomi Fujii, Hideta Takahata
• Producer: Naoto Asaoka
• Cinematographer: Yoko Itakura
• Release Date: August 27, 2021
• Runtime: 119 min.
• Genre: Drama / Mystery
• Distributor: Shochiku
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Synopsis

Shinichi Tsuda (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is a genius novelist. He is a winner of the prestigious Naoki Prize for literature. One day, he lets his editor Nahomi Torikai (Tao Tsuchiya) read his latest novel. The novel is supposed to be based on a case Shinichi Tsuda experienced himself in a small city in Toyama Prefecture. Nahomi Torikai is excited by the new novel, but she has a strange feeling and decides to check whether the story is fiction based on the author’s experience.