The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky

The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (2012) is a drama, romance film directed by Yuki Tanada rated 6.7/10.

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this 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.

Cast

Kento Nagayama

Takumi

Tomoko Tabata

Anzu

Mieko Harada

Midwife

Takahiro Miura

Fukuda

Masataka Kubota

Ena Koshino

Nana

Rie Minemura

Machiko

Miharu Tanaka

Aki Kajiwara

Gin Pun Chou

Yoh Yoshida

Takashi Yamanaka