(Ab)normal Desire
2023Director 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?
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Goro Inagaki
as Hiroki Terai
Yui Aragaki
as Natsuki Kiryu
Hayato Isomura
as Yoshimichi Sasaki
Kanta Sato
as Daiya Morohashi
Ayaka Higashino
as Yaeko Kobe
Maho Yamada
as Yumi Terai
Nozomi Bando
as Yume Takami
Shohei Uno
as Hideki Kokawa
Daichi Watanabe
as Shū Nishiyama
Eri Tokunaga
as Saori Nasu
Ryo Iwase
as Yohei Yatabe
Hiroshi Yamamoto
as teacher
Kosuke Suzuki
as NPO employee
Kokoro Morita
as Yoshika Kurume
Mari Ichihara
Jun Saitō
as Yoshimichi Sasaki [Young]
Merii Takiguchi
as Natsuki Kiryu [Young]
Yunho
as Taiki Terai
Tamaki Shiratori