Fresh
An astute mixture of multi-strand drama and murder mystery that engrosses for two solid hours.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
Overview
A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.
Director and cast
- Ken Watanabe as Yohei Maki
- Mirai Moriyama as Shingo Tanaka
- Aoi Miyazaki as Aiko Maki
- Satoshi Tsumabuki as Yuma Fujita
- Go Ayano as Naoto Onishi
- Suzu Hirose as Izumi Komiya
- Kenichi Matsuyama as Tetsuya Tashiro
- Hideko Hara as Takako Fujita, Yuma's Mother
- Chizuru Ikewaki as Asuka
- Mitsuki Takahata as Kaoru
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