(Ab)normal Desire

Drama · 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?

Starring

Goro Inagaki, Takehiko Minato, Yoshiyuki Kishi, Yui Aragaki, Ryo Asai, Hayato Isomura, Kanta Sato, Ayaka Higashino

Director

Yoshiyuki Kishi