(Ab)normal Desire

Plot Summary

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?

Top Cast

Goro Inagaki Hiroki Terai

Yui Aragaki Natsuki Kiryu

Hayato Isomura Yoshimichi Sasaki

Kanta Sato Daiya Morohashi

Ayaka Higashino Yaeko Kobe