Backwater (2013)
共喰い
Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma becomes anxious that he will have inherited those urges.
- Date of release
- 2013-09-07
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (27)
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Shinji Aoyama
Casting
- Masaki Suda — Touma
- Misaki Kinoshita — Chikusa
- Yukiko Shinohara — Kotoko
- Ken Mitsuishi — Madoka
- Yuko Tanaka — Jinko
- Ittoku Kishibe — Detective
- Yasushi Fuchikami — Young Detective
- Kyoko Shishikura — Woman in the Apartment
Interesting facts
The Backwater is a 2013 Japanese drama film directed by Shinji Aoyama, starring Masaki Suda. It is based on the Akutagawa Prize-winning novel by Shinya Tanaka and adapted by Haruhiko Arai. The film won the Best Director award from the Swiss critics' federation and the Best Film award from the Junior Jury's at the 2013 Locarno International Film Festival.
Production
The song "Torna a Surriento" was used in the closing credits of the film.
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