2014 · drama · crime · thriller
Pale Moon
Directed by Daihachi Yoshida2h 4m2014
Wakaba Bank contract employee Rika meets university student Kota at a client's home. Unknown to her husband Masafumi, she engages in secret rendezvous with Kota, and begins to embezzle money from her clients' accounts to buy expensive cosmetics and pay off Kota's debt.
Our read: Pale Moon (2014) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · crime · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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