Description
In the dim light of a riverside café in Tokyo, a photographer and his young muse sit across from each other at the end of another long shoot. He is Chiu Tien - known to the art world by a borrowed name, Edward - a man weathered by decades of chasing beauty that never stays. She is Narumi, introduced to him years ago as Yuri Tanaka, a nineteen-year-old model with the composure of someone twice her age. Over six years, they build a quiet, unspoken intimacy - a current of trust, fascination, and restraint that binds them beyond the boundaries of art. But when their final meeting ends with a promise and a photograph never meant to be developed, what emerges later in a Taipei studio will fracture everything he believes about memory, truth, and the nature of seeing. The Shutter is a meditation on the relationship between artist and muse, on beauty's impermanence, and on how love - like light - exists only in what it touches before it fades.
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