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(Ab)normal Desire (2023)
Directed by Yoshiyuki Kishi
Overview
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?
Length 134 minutes
Actors
Gorô Inagaki | Yui Aragaki | Hayato Isomura | Kanta Sato | Ayaka Higashino | Maho Yamada | Nozomi Bando | Shôhei Uno | Daichi Watanabe | Eri Tokunaga | Ryo Iwase | Hiroshi Yamamoto | Kosuke Suzuki | Kokoro Morita | Mari Ichihara | Jun Saitou | Merii Takiguchi | Hiroshi Kaname | Tamaki Shiratori