(Ab)normal Desire (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?

• Release Date: 2023-11-10
• Runtime: 2h 14min
• Production Company: Bitters End
• Production Country: Japan
• Director: Yoshiyuki Kishi
• Writer: Takehiko Minato