Domains (movie)
王国（あるいはその家について）- User score: 5.1
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Natsuka Kusano
- Production companies: Aichi Arts Center
- Genre: Drama
- Budget: $150,000
- Release date: 1/24/2019
- Run time: 150 min.
Movie description
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. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.
