09 May 1941
A Woman's Face
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Drive Into Night
A broken world and an endless daily life
A surprising and humanistic drama that questions the meaning of happiness through the strange fate of one man who caused an accident. One night, a taciturn and clumsy man working at a scrap iron factory in the suburbs of Tokyo, causes an irreparable accident with his colleague. The two try to hide the incident but the man’s fate takes a turn for the worse and his colleague and family are faced with threats to their survival. A psychologial thriller that reveals the ills of Japanese society along with the darknesses of the human heart based on a script full of surprises written by the director Dai Sakō. Tomomitsu Adachi, who plays the lead role, exudes an eerie charm, and is flanked by many of Japan's best supporting actors such as Yutaka Matsushige and Shohei Uno.
Top Billed Cast
足立智充 Taichi Akimoto
玉置玲央 Wataru Taniguchi
菜葉菜 Misaki Taniguchi
宇野祥平 Minomata
松重豊 Kim-Jung Woo
高橋努 Shinichi Hongo
川瀬陽太 Akira Konishi
Ran Tamai
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