(Ab)normal Desire
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?
Genre: Drama
Director: Takashi Matsuo, Yoshiyuki Kishi
Actors: Ayaka Higashino, Daichi Watanabe, Eri Tokunaga, Goro Inagaki, Hayato Isomura, Kanta Sato, Maho Yamada, Nozomi Bando, Shohei Uno, Yui Aragaki