(Ab)normal Desire (2023)
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?
- Released
- 2023-11-10
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Yoshiyuki Kishi, Takehiko Minato
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 from 16 votes
Cast
- Goro Inagaki as Hiroki Terai
- Yui Aragaki as Natsuki Kiryu
- Hayato Isomura as Yoshimichi Sasaki
- Kanta Sato as Daiya Morohashi
- Ayaka Higashino as Yaeko Kobe
- Maho Yamada as Yumi Terai
- Nozomi Bando as Yume Takami
- Shohei Uno as Hideki Kokawa
- Daichi Watanabe as Shū Nishiyama
- Eri Tokunaga as Saori Nasu
- Ryo Iwase as Yohei Yatabe
- Hiroshi Yamamoto as teacher