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The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky(2012)
Status: Released
Date: 2012-09-09
67%
20 Votes
Time: 2h 22m
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)
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan
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Movie: The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
Top 10 Billed Cast
永山絢斗
Takumi
田畑智子
Anzu
原田美枝子
Midwife
三浦貴大
Fukuda
窪田正孝
小篠恵奈
Nana
峯村リエ
Machiko
梶原阿貴
銀粉蝶
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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)
Release Date
2012-09-09
Average
6.7
Rating:
3.4 startsTagline
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