(Ab)normal Desire
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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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Cast
19 people
Goro Inagaki
Hiroki Terai
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Yui Aragaki
Natsuki Kiryu
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Hayato Isomura
Yoshimichi Sasaki
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Saori Nasu
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Hiroshi Yamamoto
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Yoshiyuki Kishi Director · Takehiko Minato Screenplay Ryo Asai Story
First release October 25, 2023 · Produced in Japan · Production murmur, TV Man Union
Production
Bitters End
Production
murmur
Production
TV Man Union
Production
CULEN
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Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
正欲
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · October 25, 2023
Premiere · Tokyo International Film Festival
Japan · November 10, 2023
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Canada
June 6, 2024 · Premiere · Toronto Japanese Film Festival
China
June 14, 2024 · Premiere · Shanghai International Film Festival
Hong Kong SAR China
November 12, 2023 · Premiere · Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
May 9, 2024 · Theatrical
Japan
February 11, 2024 · Digital · U-NEXT
March 10, 2024 · Digital · Netflix
South Korea
May 29, 2024 · Theatrical
Taiwan
November 10, 2023 · Premiere · Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
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