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Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma becomes anxious that he will have inherited those urges.
A quiet riverside town serves as a suffocating backdrop for a young man terrified that his father's violent impulses are hardwired into his own DNA. This intimate character study captures the crushing weight of inherited trauma through tense, quiet observations of domestic life.
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Shinji Aoyama
Cast
Masaki Suda, Misaki Kinoshita, Yukiko Shinohara, Ken Mitsuishi, Yuko Tanaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Yasushi Fuchikami, Kyoko Shishikura
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Director
Shinji Aoyama
Cast
Masaki Suda, Misaki Kinoshita, Yukiko Shinohara, Ken Mitsuishi, Yuko Tanaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Yasushi Fuchikami, Kyoko Shishikura
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small town · abusive father · redemption · dysfunctional family · sexual violence · domestic violence · self-loathing · abuse · shōwa era (1926-89)
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