The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky

The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky

2012 · 142 min · JA · 6.7 (20 votes)
Dir. Yuki Tanada · Starring Kento Nagayama, Tomoko Tabata, Mieko Harada, Takahiro Miura, Masataka Kubota, Ena Koshino · Music Shuhei Kamimura
DramaRomance

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.

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