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Backwater (2013)

Backwater (2013)

Drama
Release Date: 2013, September 7
Directors: Shinji Aoyama
Countries: Japan
Production: Bitters End, stylejam, GEEK PICTURES, Amuse Soft Entertainment, MIDSHIP
Cast: Yuko Tanaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Masaki Suda, Ken Mitsuishi, Yukiko Shinohara, Yasushi Fuchikami, Misaki Kinoshita, Kyoko Shishikura

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

redemption abusive father small town dysfunctional family sexual violence domestic violence shōwa era (1926-89) self-loathing abuse