A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an Alcoholic

A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an Alcoholic

2020•1h 34m•7.5/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.5/10(2)

Saki's father is an alcoholic and her mother is a follower of a new religion. She sees her father's strange behavior and her mother's loneliness. Her family is collapsing, but Saki struggles to look for her future.

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Production

MBS

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Honoka Matsumoto

Honoka Matsumoto

Saki Tadokoro

Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Toshifumi Tadokoro

Yui Imaizumi

Yui Imaizumi

Fumi Tadokoro

Yuri Tsunematsu

Yuri Tsunematsu

Jun

Rie Tomosaka

Rie Tomosaka

Saeko Tadokoro

Shogo Hama

Shogo Hama

Satoshi Nakamura

Tamae Ando

Tamae Ando

Shohei Uno

Shohei Uno

Shiraishi

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Hatsuda

Hidetoshi Hoshida

Hidetoshi Hoshida

Nakatani

Joe Odagiri

Joe Odagiri

Kenta Hamano

Kenta Hamano

Kinoshita

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