Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Asami Shibuya, Tomo Kasajima, Tomomitsu Adachi, Ryu Kenta
Crew: Natsuka Kusano (Director), Tomoyuki Takahashi (Screenplay), Yasutaka Watanabe (Director of Photography), Natsuka Kusano (Editor), Keita Suzuo (Editor), Takashi Echigoya (Producer)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Aichi Arts Center
Runtime: 150 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 24, 2019
IMDb: 5.9
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