Pale Moon

Pale Moon
2014
★★★☆☆ 6.4/10
⏱️ 124 min
📅 Released
🌐 JA
CrimeDrama
Daily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring job, comes home to an unappreciative husband and has little opportunity to enjoy life. But things change when office gossip about affairs and embezzlement inspire Rika to do the unthinkable. Soon, Rika finds herself filling the void with a university student named Kota and the millions entrusted to her by clients. Is her newfound lifestyle the key to happiness? And if so, how long can it last?

Cast

Rie Miyazawa
Rie Miyazawa
Rika Umezawa
Sosuke Ikematsu
Sosuke Ikematsu
Kota
Seiichi Tanabe
Seiichi Tanabe
Masafumi Umezawa
Satomi Kobayashi
Satomi Kobayashi
Kuma
Yoshimasa Kondo
Yoshimasa Kondo
Yuji Inoue
Renji Ishibashi
Renji Ishibashi
Kozo Hirabayashi

User Reviews

badelf
★ 7/10
December 5, 2021
The story is fascinating because I end up having so much empathy for the "anti-hero". It has something to do with how it was tied back to her idiotic childhood. I imagine anyone brought up in a catholic school probably ends up with a weird life.

Crew

Director
Daihachi Yoshida
Writer
Kaeko Hayafune
Producer
Fumitsugu Ikeda, Chikahiro Ando, Toshihiro Takahashi

Production

Robot Communications, Shochiku, Pony Canyon, Asmik Ace, Hakuhodo, The Asahi Shimbun, PIA Corporation, KDDI, KADOKAWA Daiei Studio, IMAGICA

Keywords

based on novel or bookscamextramarital affairembezzlement1990s