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A Bad Summer

1h 54m Drama October 2025

JAPANESE

RIGHTS: Worldwide excluding Japan

Sasaki is a civil servant who processes social welfare applications. Due to his timid personality, he sometimes struggles with the cases before him including a woman on the verge of giving up her child and a man who fakes illness in order to collect welfare payments. He also faces discord in the department itself, witnessing a colleague pressing a client into a physical relationship. Trying to shield the woman from harm, Sasaki gets caught up in a terrible crime.

Director

Hideo Jojo

Language

Japanese

Origin

Japan