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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 24, 2019

Runtime

2h 30m

Genres

Drama

User Score

51%

Original Title

王国(あるいはその家について)

Production Companies

Aichi Arts Center

Director

Natsuka Kusano

Budget

$150,000

Description

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.