
22 Apr 2010

The Kid
Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life together again afterwards.

Seven families are aboard a bus towards a field camp for their vacation. At this camp, it becomes clear that this is not a common trip. The parents are of the kind that abused their children or were visited by children's services, and at the camp they are offered to sell their children for a large sum of money, because there were customers that needed healthy internal organs.

Hitoshi Kakiuchi

Junpei Kawahara

Haruki Yokoyama

Kimiyo Nakao
Harumi Nakao

Koichi Kawahara

Shoko Nishiyama

Michiyo Nishiyama

Someko Hashimoto

Masahiko Nishiyama
Shoichi Maeda
Kazuki Yokoyama
Shinichi Hashimoto
Saburo Yanagioka

Hideo Yanagioka

22 Apr 2010

Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life together again afterwards.

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