(Ab)normal Desire

• Cast: Goro Inagaki, Yui Aragaki, Hayato Isomura, Kanta Sato, Ayaka Higashino
• Duration: 134 minutes
• Genre: Drama
• Rating: 7.6/10
• Release Date: 2023-11-10

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?