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The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky

ふがいない僕は空を見た

2012 · 2h 22m · Drama, Romance · Japan · Rated R15+ (JP)

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this 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.

Directed by
Yuki Tanada
Written by
Kosuke Mukai
Based on the novel by
Misumi Kubo
Starring
Kento Nagayama, Tomoko Tabata, Mieko Harada, Takahiro Miura
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