王国（あるいはその家について） (2019)

Domains

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.

Casting arrow_drop_down

Asami Shibuya
as Aki

Tomo Kasajima
as Nodoka

Tomomitsu Adachi
as Naoto

Ryu Kenta
as Police

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Crew arrow_drop_down

Natsuka Kusano
Director

Yasutaka Watanabe
Director of Photography

Keita Suzuo
Editor

Takashi Echigoya
Producer

Tomoyuki Takahashi
Screenplay

Natsuka Kusano
Editor

Young Chang Hwang
Sound Designer

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