Novel, Next Stop Paradise

Will choose the beautiful, painful, profound, ordinary...

Which one can prove that you have lived?

★"What I want to do this time is not to fix the image in a printed matter, but to further liberate the theme of "Next Stop, Heaven" expanded in the form of a movie into the realm of text. Therefore, I hope that readers can Treat this novel as an independent work."──Director Hirokazu Kore-eda personally adapted it into a novel version!

After death, people will be asked at the entrance to heaven:

"Please choose one of the most important memories in your life."

During the seven days before leaving for heaven, the deceased will be forced to choose the most beautiful memory in their life, which will be recreated and made into a movie by the staff, and then a movie screening will be held on the last day. During this period, the deceased will review his life again; sometimes he is immersed in nostalgia, sometimes he feels regret; after thinking hard, the final choice is...