(Ab)normal Desire
2023•2h 14m•7.3•Released
Drama
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?
Director
Yoshiyuki Kishi
Writer
Takehiko Minato
Languages
Japanese
Studio
Bitters End
Cast
Goro Inagaki
Hiroki Terai
Yui Aragaki
Natsuki Kiryu
Hayato Isomura
Yoshimichi Sasaki
Kanta Sato
Daiya Morohashi
Ayaka Higashino
Yaeko Kobe
Maho Yamada
Yumi Terai
Nozomi Bando
Yume Takami
Shohei Uno
Hideki Kokawa
Daichi Watanabe
Shū Nishiyama
Eri Tokunaga
Saori Nasu
Ryo Iwase
Yohei Yatabe
Hiroshi Yamamoto
teacher
Kosuke Suzuki
NPO employee
Kokoro Morita
Yoshika Kurume
Mari Ichihara
Production
Company
Bitters End
Company
murmur
Company
TV Man Union
Company
CULEN
Producer
Yuko Nakamura
Producer
TOMITA Tomoko
Producer
Hiromitsu Sugita
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