The read
It runs long at 2h 30m.
Synopsis
Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
11 audience votes
Key crew
- Natsuka KusanoDirector
- Tomoyuki TakahashiScreenplay
Cast
- Asami ShibuyaAki
- Tomo KasajimaNodoka
- Tomomitsu AdachiNaoto
- Ryu KentaPolice