CinemaOSMovie · 2012 · 2h 22m

The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky

67%(20)IMDbDramaRomance

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to provide for himself and his senile grandmother — whose intersecting lives yield both sorrow and a fragile, yet enduring, hope for a brighter future.

Directed byYuki Tanada

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Status
Released
Runtime
2h 22m
Language
JA
Released
September 9, 2012
Studios
Toei Video CompanyTOEI CHANNELStairway

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ふがいない僕は空を見た

ふがいない僕は空を見た

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Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Kento Nagayama

Kento Nagayama

Takumi

Tomoko Tabata

Tomoko Tabata

Anzu

Mieko Harada

Mieko Harada

Midwife

Takahiro Miura

Takahiro Miura

Fukuda

Masataka Kubota

Masataka Kubota

Ena Koshino

Ena Koshino

Nana

Rie Minemura

Rie Minemura

Machiko

Miharu Tanaka

Aki Kajiwara

Aki Kajiwara

Gin Pun Chou

Gin Pun Chou

Creative team
Directed by
Yuki Tanada
Yuki Tanada
Written by
Kosuke Mukai
Kosuke Mukai
Produced by
Gen Sato
Gen Sato
Toshiki Kimura

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