The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
Asian Cinema
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2h 22m
High school student Takumi (Kento Nagayama) meets Satomi (Tomoko Tabata), a lonely married woman who escapes the pressures of her troubled marriage through anime cosplay. The two begin a secret affair, but their fantasy world comes crashing down when intimate images are leaked online, exposing the loneliness and hardship hidden beneath their everyday lives.
Adapted from Misumi Kubo’s award-winning novel, THE COWARDS WHO LOOKED TO THE SKY had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and earned Takahiro Miura the Kinema Junpo Award for Best New Actor and Tomoko Tabata the Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress.
DIRECTED BY YUKI TANADA
JAPAN | 2012 | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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