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)

• Kento Nagayama
• Tomoko Tabata
• Mieko Harada
• Takahiro Miura
• Masataka Kubota
• Ena Koshino
• Rie Minemura
• Miharu Tanaka