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.

Cast:

Asami Shibuya
Aki 

Tomo Kasajima
Nodoka 

Tomomitsu Adachi
Naoto 

Ryu Kenta
Police 

• Okoku (aruiwa sonoka ni tsuite)