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)

• Parental Guidance: PG-13
• Release Date: 2012-09-09
• Runtime: 2h 22min
• Production Company: Toei Video Company
• Production Country: Japan
• Director: Yuki Tanada
• Writer: Kosuke Mukai