The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (2012)
Original title: ふがいない僕は空を見た
The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky is a 2012 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Yuki Tanada, with a running time of 2h 22m. It stars Kento Nagayama, Tomoko Tabata and Mieko Harada.
Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender 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. (TIFF)