(Ab)normal Desire (2023)

overview : 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 : Nov 10, 2023

Runtime : 2h 14m

Genre : Drama  

Companies : Bitters End, murmur, TV Man Union

Countries : Japan

Keywords : based on novel or book, sexual desire, diversity, peculiar propensity, propensity