

A manga artist who can't write villains becomes obsessed with a real one. Recipe for disaster? Absolutely.
A kind man aspires to become a manga writer, but villains and evil deeds do not come easily to him, for he has little experience or natural inclination for them. Things take a surprise turn when he comes across a family who were described as idealized that are no more. He uses the real-life situation for his work.
Acting
Masaki Suda's spiral from earnest to ethically compromised is devastating
Direction
Nagai blurs creator and voyeur until you're implicated too
Writing
The screenplay weaponizes your own curiosity against you

Director
Akira Nagai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fukase, who plays Morozumi, is actually the lead vocalist of J-pop band SEKAI NO OWARI—his soft-spoken menace convinced Nagai he could embody evil without theatricality.
The film interrogates Japan's 'dark tourism' phenomenon and true crime manga boom—genres where real suffering becomes consumable entertainment, implicating the audience directly.