A Bad Summer

Mar 20, 2025

1h 54m

★ 8.9

Overview

Sasaki is a sincere civil servant, working at city hall. Due to his timid personality, he can't properly deal with nasty people, including a single mother on the verge of giving up her own child, another civil servant pressing him to have a physical relationship, and a person who receives welfare benefits unfairly. His passivity leads him to get caught up in a terrible crime.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

THE KLOCKWORX

KADOKAWA

C&I entertainment

A Bad Summer Trailers

Cast

Mamoru Sasaki

Takumi Kitamura

Aimi Hayashino

Yuumi Kawai

Yuko Miyata

Marika Ito

Yoji Takano

Katsuya Maiguma

Rika

Yumena Yanai

Yoshio Yamada

Pistol Takehara

Kasumi Furukawa

Haruka Kinami

Tatsuya Kaneki

Masataka Kubota

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