Cupid 1998 Summer: Maki Sakai is a cinematic portrait of Japanese actress Maki Sakai at the height of late ‘90s youth culture, captured through the lens of Takashi Sagisaka. Shot during a rainy summer in 1998, the book moves through heat-hazed afternoons casting Sakai as both muse and mirror during fleeting moments of introspection that feel like a memory. She appears in slip dresses and swimsuits, reclined in anonymous interiors and drifting through public parks, caught in a choreography of glances. Toeing the line between between candid spontaneity and something more self-aware, the actress is situated within a poetic in between that defines the mood of summer.