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The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky

The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky

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DramaRomance

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Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender 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. (TIFF)

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Budget

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Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Runtime

142 mins

Rating

6.5/10

Release Date

09 September 2012

Country

Japan

Cast

Kento Nagayama

Kento Nagayama

Takumi

Tomoko Tabata

Tomoko Tabata

Anzu

Mieko Harada

Mieko Harada

Midwife / Takumi's mother

Takahiro Miura

Takahiro Miura

Fukuda

Masataka Kubota

Masataka Kubota

Ena Koshino

Ena Koshino

Nana

Rie Minemura

Rie Minemura

Machiko / Satomi''s mother in-law

Miharu Tanaka

Miharu Tanaka

Aki Kajiwara

Aki Kajiwara

Gin Pun Chou

Gin Pun Chou

Yoh Yoshida

Yoh Yoshida

Takashi Yamanaka

Takashi Yamanaka

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Runa Endo

Runa Endo

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