Domains (2019)
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.
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Stars:
- Natsuka Kusano
Writing:
- Tomoyuki Takahashi
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Release Date: 2019-01-24
5.1/10
5.1/10
- Country: JP
- Language: 日本語
- Runtime: 150
- Budget: $150,000
