Family of Strangers

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest if it's a locked-room mystery. Three patients in a Nagano psychiatric clinic find their lives upended by a murder. It's a chamber drama of suspicion, culpability, and the uneasy line between sanity and madness.

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Hideyuki Hirayama directed Family of Strangers in 2019. See Hideyuki Hirayama's full filmography, where to start with Hideyuki Hirayama, or where to go after you've seen everything by Hideyuki Hirayama.

Family of Strangers was released in 2019 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 117 minutes.