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(Ab)normal Desire

7.3 average rating
★★★★★
7.3
Japanese / 134 MIN. / 2023

The Genres

The Synopsis

Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a society without regard for diversity, the story unites characters trying to hide abnormalities: a prosecutor who is worried that his pubescent son is a shut-in, an introverted saleswoman with a peculiar habit, and a student tortured by feelings she can’t express. In a world fill with abnormalities, what if it’s actually normal to be abnormal?

The Cast

Goro InagakiYui AragakiHayato IsomuraKanta SatoAyaka HigashinoMaho YamadaNozomi BandoShohei UnoDaichi WatanabeEri TokunagaRyo IwaseHiroshi YamamotoKosuke SuzukiKokoro MoritaMari IchiharaJun SaitoMerii TakiguchiYunhoTamaki Shiratori

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