Film

(Ab)normal Desire

2023 · 2h 14m · Drama

IMDb

6.3

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?

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

Jun Saito

Yoshimichi Sasaki [Young]

• Yoshiyuki KishiDirector · Editor
• Takehiko MinatoScreenplay
• Yuko NakamuraProducer
• TOMITA TomokoProducer
• Hiromitsu SugitaProducer
• Akira IshiiExecutive Producer
• Yuji SadaiExecutive Producer
• Michi IijimaExecutive Producer
• Kôzô NatsumiDirector of Photography
• Sawako OhzuCasting

Release date

November 10, 2023

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 14m

Rated

IIA

Genres

Drama

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