(Ab)normal Desire

(Ab)normal Desire

134 mins | Drama | Nov. 10, 2023

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?

(Ab)normal Desire

134 mins | Drama | Nov. 10, 2023

(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?
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Bitters End, TV Man Union, murmur
Original title 正欲
Directors Yoshiyuki Kishi
Writers Ryo Asai, Takehiko Minato

Cast

Goro Inagaki

as Hiroki Terai

Yui Aragaki

as Natsuki Kiryu

Hayato Isomura

as Yoshimichi Sasaki

Kanta Sato

as Daiya Morohashi

Ayaka Higashino

as Yaeko Kobe

Maho Yamada

as Yumi Terai

Shohei Uno

as Hideki Kokawa

Daichi Watanabe

as Shū Nishiyama

Eri Tokunaga

as Saori Nasu

Ryo Iwase

as Yohei Yatabe

Nozomi Bando

as Yume Takami

Hiroshi Yamamoto

as teacher

Kosuke Suzuki

as NPO employee