Desc: Ôkoku (aruiwa sono ie ni tsuite): Directed by Natsuka Kusano. With Tomomitsu Adachi, Tomo Kasajima, Ryu Kenta, Asami Shibuya. Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter. Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors' table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. She repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko's daughter.