Movie: The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky

Top 10 Billed Cast

Kento Nagayama
永山絢斗

Takumi

Tomoko Tabata
田畑智子

Anzu

Mieko Harada
原田美枝子

Midwife / Takumi's mother

Takahiro Miura
三浦貴大

Fukuda

Masataka Kubota
窪田正孝

Ena Koshino
小篠恵奈

Nana

Rie Minemura
峯村リエ

Machiko / Satomi''s mother in-law

Miharu Tanaka
Miharu Tanaka

Aki Kajiwara
梶原阿貴

Gin Pun Chou
銀粉蝶

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    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

    6.8

  • Rating:

    3.4 starts
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  • Languages:

    日本語
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