Domains (2019)
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.
Director:
Natsuka Kusano
Writer:
Tomoyuki Takahashi
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Asami Shibuya as Aki |
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Tomo Kasajima as Nodoka |
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Tomomitsu Adachi as Naoto |
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Ryu Kenta as Police |
| Directing | Natsuka Kusano | Director |
| Writing | Tomoyuki Takahashi | Screenplay |
| Camera | Yasutaka Watanabe | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Natsuka Kusano | Editor |
| Editing | Keita Suzuo | Editor |
| Production | Takashi Echigoya | Producer |
| Sound | Hwang Young-Chang | Sound Designer |
| Directing | Wataru Hiranami | Assistant Director |