The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (2012)

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to provide for himself and his senile grandmother — whose intersecting lives yield both sorrow and a fragile, yet enduring, hope for a brighter future.

Directed by: Yuki Tanada

Top Billed Cast: Kento Nagayama, Tomoko Tabata, Mieko Harada

Runtime: 142 minutes