The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky

September. 09,2012

Rating：

6.5

Genre：

Drama Romance

Keywords：

Woman Director Japan

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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)

Kento Nagayama as Takumi

Tomoko Tabata as Anzu

Mieko Harada as Midwife / Takumi's mother

Takahiro Miura as Fukuda

Masataka Kubota as

Ena Koshino as Nana

Rie Minemura as Machiko / Satomi''s mother in-law

Aki Kajiwara as

Gin Pun Chou as

Yoh Yoshida as

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Reviews

Kirandeep Yoder

2012/09/09

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

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Nicole

2012/09/10

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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Zlatica

2012/09/11

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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Francene Odetta

2012/09/12

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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