
River's Edge(2018)
High schooler Haruna befriends loner Yamada, then is drawn into the tangled relationship between him, a model and the girl who loves him unreasonably.


While fooling around with a self-made crossbow, Kira accidentally kills his classmate Itsuki. For lack of evidence, the young student is found innocent. However, his trial is widely covered by the mass media, and the following uproar from society won’t leave his family untouched.

Yu Uemura
Kira

Yoshi Kuroiwa
Kira's Mother

Yukino Nagura
Momoko
Takuya Abe
Itsuki Kuramochi

Go Jibiki
Takehiko Kuramochi

Akana Ikeda

Ryûju Sumikawa
Shuya Haruna
Tetsurô Mihara
Maiko Kadota
Forgiven Children is a drama, crime film released in 2020 exploring themes of juvenile crime, young offender, school bullying, child-on-child murder, juvenile justice, social rejection. Directed by Eisuke Naito, it stars Yu Uemura, Yoshi Kuroiwa, Yukino Nagura. While fooling around with a self-made crossbow, Kira accidentally kills his classmate Itsuki. For lack of evidence, the young student is found innocent. However, his trial is widely covered by the mass media, and the following uproar from society won’t leave his family untouched.
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