Trailer: ‘The Good Father’
By Phil Mills | Aug 23, 2022
‘The Good Father’ (この子は邪悪) is a 2022 Japanese thriller written and directed by Sho Kataoka.
The film revolves around a young girl who begins to suspect something isn’t right after her mother returns home following five years spent in a coma. The cast includes Sara Minami, Ryusei Onishi, Yuki Sakurai, Hiroshi Tamaki, and Ryutaro Ninomiya.
Synopsis: Five years after a terrible accident where her psychotherapist father’s leg was disabled, her mother left in a coma and her little sister’s face with serious burns, Hana – who was left otherwise unharmed – grapples with emotional scars. She bonds with a boy searching for the answer to his mother’s mental illness but when her father brings her mother home out of a blue, claiming a miracle has happened, she doesn’t believe it can be her. [Source: Screen Daily]
‘The Good Father’ opens across Japan on September 1, 2022.
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