A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an Alcoholic

Mar 6, 2020

1h 34m

★ 7.5

Overview

Saki's father is an alcoholic and her mother is a follower of a new religion. She sees her father's strange behavior and her mother's loneliness. Her family is collapsing, but Saki struggles to look for her future.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

MBS

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Cast

Saki Tadokoro

Honoka Matsumoto

Toshifumi Tadokoro

Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Fumi Tadokoro

Yui Imaizumi

Jun

Yuri Tsunematsu

Saeko Tadokoro

Rie Tomosaka

Satoshi Nakamura

Shogo Hama

Tamae Ando

Shiraishi

Shohei Uno

Hatsuda

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Nakatani

Hidetoshi Hoshida

Joe Odagiri

Kinoshita

Kenta Hamano

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