The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (2012)
Overview
Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender 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. (TIFF)
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ja |
| Popularity | 4.201 |
Directed By
Yuki Tanada
Crew
Yuki Tanada
Kato Fumiaki
Ryô Ohtsuka
Kosuke Mukai
Misumi Kubo
TOP CAST
Kento Nagayama
Takumi
Tomoko Tabata
Anzu
Mieko Harada
Midwife / Takumi's mother
Takahiro Miura
Fukuda
Ena Koshino
Nana
Rie Minemura
Machiko / Satomi''s mother in-law
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