The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky

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)

Director: Yuki Tanada

Cast: Kento Nagayama, Tomoko Tabata, Mieko Harada, Takahiro Miura, Masataka Kubota, Ena Koshino, Rie Minemura, Miharu Tanaka

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.