Pale Moon

Release Date: 2014-11-15

Overview: Daily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring job, comes home to an unappreciative husband and has little opportunity to enjoy life. But things change when office gossip about affairs and embezzlement inspire Rika to do the unthinkable. Soon, Rika finds herself filling the void with a university student named Kota and the millions entrusted to her by clients. Is her newfound lifestyle the key to happiness? And if so, how long can it last?

Rating: 6.4 / 10

Cast

Rie Miyazawa

as Rika Umezawa

Sosuke Ikematsu

as Kota

Seiichi Tanabe

as Masafumi Umezawa

Satomi Kobayashi

as Kuma

Yoshimasa Kondo

as Yuji Inoue

Crew

Daihachi Yoshida - Director
Kaeko Hayafune - Screenplay
Fumitsugu Ikeda - Producer
Mitsuyo Kakuta - Novel
Makoto Sigma - Director of Photography

Reviews

badelf:

The story is fascinating because I end up having so much empathy for the "anti-hero". It has something to do with how it was tied back to her idiotic childhood. I imagine anyone brought up in a cathol...