Domains
Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.
- Year: 2019
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Aichi Arts Center
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- Director: Natsuka Kusano
- Cast: Asami Shibuya, Tomo Kasajima, Tomomitsu Adachi, Ryu Kenta