The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (2012)
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)
Released: Sep 09, 2012
Runtime: 142 minutes
Stars: Kento Nagayama, Tomoko Tabata, Mieko Harada, Takahiro Miura, Masataka Kubota, Ena Koshino
Crew: Yuki Tanada (Director), Ryô Ohtsuka (Director of Photography), Misumi Kubo (Novel), Kosuke Mukai (Writer), Kato Fumiaki (Assistant Director)