2013

1h 42m

6.1(27 votes)

Drama

Overview

Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma becomes anxious that he will have inherited those urges.

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The people behind it

Cast & crew

8 featured cast members

Starring

Masaki Suda

Touma

Misaki Kinoshita

Chikusa

Yukiko Shinohara

Kotoko

Ken Mitsuishi

Madoka

Yuko Tanaka

Jinko

Ittoku Kishibe

Detective

Yasushi Fuchikami

Young Detective

Kyoko Shishikura

Woman in the Apartment

Creative team

Directed by: Shinji Aoyama
Written by: Haruhiko Arai
Produced by: Naoki Kai

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