(Ab)normal Desire (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?

Genres: Drama

Stars: Goro Inagaki, Yui Aragaki, Hayato Isomura, Kanta Sato, Ayaka Higashino

Release Date: 2023-11-10

Country: Japan

Ratings: 7.6 / 10 (14 votes)

Runtime: 134 mins