Seiyoku
Movie
正欲 2023/11/10
Character count14,058
Word count5,689
Unique words1,488
Words (1-occurrence)841
Unique kanji677
Kanji (1-occurrence)243
Difficulty beta Easy

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?

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