The read
A Balasaur Score of 66 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.3/10.
Synopsis
Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a society without regard for diversity, the story unites characters trying to hide abnormalities: a prosecutor who is worried that his pubescent son is a shut-in, an introverted saleswoman with a peculiar habit, and a student tortured by feelings she can’t express. In a world fill with abnormalities, what if it’s actually normal to be abnormal?
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
16 audience votes
Key crew
- Yoshiyuki KishiDirector
- Takehiko MinatoScreenplay
Cast
- Goro InagakiHiroki Terai
- Yui AragakiNatsuki Kiryu
- Hayato IsomuraYoshimichi Sasaki
- Kanta SatoDaiya Morohashi
- Ayaka HigashinoYaeko Kobe
- Maho YamadaYumi Terai
- Nozomi BandoYume Takami
- Shohei UnoHideki Kokawa
- Daichi WatanabeShū Nishiyama
- Eri TokunagaSaori Nasu
- Ryo IwaseYohei Yatabe
- Hiroshi Yamamototeacher
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Themes
based on novel or bookgeneralrelationshipsexual desirenormaldiversitypeculiar propensitypropensity