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Backwater

6.120131h 42mMovieDrama

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.

DirectorShinji Aoyama
WriterHaruhiko Arai
ProducerNaoki Kai

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Cast · Directed by Shinji Aoyama

MSMasaki Suda
Masaki Suda
Touma
MKMisaki Kinoshita
Misaki Kinoshita
Chikusa
YSYukiko Shinohara
Yukiko Shinohara
Kotoko
KMKen Mitsuishi
Ken Mitsuishi
Madoka
YTYuko Tanaka
Yuko Tanaka
Jinko
IKIttoku Kishibe
Ittoku Kishibe
Detective
YFYasushi Fuchikami
Yasushi Fuchikami
Young Detective
KS
Kyoko Shishikura
Woman in the Apartment

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