(Ab)normal Desire
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?
- Year: 2023
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Bitters End, murmur, TV Man Union
- Keyword: based on novel or book, sexual desire, diversity, peculiar propensity, propensity
- Director: Yoshiyuki Kishi
- Cast: Goro Inagaki, Yui Aragaki, Hayato Isomura, Kanta Sato, Ayaka Higashino, Maho Yamada