(Ab)normal Desire

(2023)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 16 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2023

Runtime: 134 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 岸善幸

Cast: Горо Инагаки, Юи Арагаки, Хаято Исомура, Сато Канта, 東野絢香, 山田真歩, 坂東希, Сёхэи Уно, 渡辺大知, 徳永えり

Plot

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?