(Ab)normal Desire (2023)
Original title: 正欲
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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?
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Goro InagakiHiroki Terai
Yui AragakiNatsuki Kiryu
Hayato IsomuraYoshimichi Sasaki
Kanta SatoDaiya Morohashi
Ayaka HigashinoYaeko Kobe
Maho YamadaYumi Terai
Shohei UnoHideki Kokawa
Daichi WatanabeShū Nishiyama
Eri TokunagaSaori Nasu
Ryo IwaseYohei Yatabe
Nozomi BandoYume Takami
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What is (Ab)normal Desire about?
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?
How long is (Ab)normal Desire?
(Ab)normal Desire has a runtime of 134 minutes.