Katsuya Maruyama is a middle school student boy full of obscene thoughts. He then meets Tatsuo Shimoi, a single father who moves into the same apartment complex. Tatsuo Shimoi is a bit of an enigma: he doesn't get along with the housewives in the apartment complex and doesn't appear to work. Through his encounter with the mysterious single father, Katsuya grows as a person.
Writing
Kankuro Kudo's signature tonal whiplash between crude and tender.
Acting
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi's unreadable deadpan hiding oceans of damage.
Director
Kankuro Kudo
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
Tatsuo Shimoi
Takuma Hiraoka
Katsuya Maruyama
Yang Ik-june
Yuiko Kariya
Yuzuka Shimizu
Maki Sakai
Mizuki Maruyama
Toru Nakamura
Katsuyuki Maruyama
Sarutoki Minagawa
Hosono
Hiroki Miyake
Wrestling coach Umeda
YOU
Shimizu's mother
Kenji Endo
Inoue's grandfather
Fumina Hara
Miura
Ryo Iwamatsu
Nanami Nabemoto
Maho Nonami
Tomorowo Taguchi
Saito
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kankuro Kudo adapted this from his own novel, which was even more sexually explicit and banned from some school libraries in Japan.
The apartment complex setting deliberately echoes Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'Cure'—Kudo wanted suburban dread with a heart instead of horror.
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