# Family of Strangers (2019)

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**Original title**: *閉鎖病棟 それぞれの朝*
**Runtime**: 117 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Hideyuki Hirayama
**Written by**: Hideyuki Hirayama
**Starring**: Nana Komatsu, Tsurube Shofukutei, Go Ayano, Ryota Bando, Kami Hiraiwa, Toshiki Ayata

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, cerebral, paranoid, slow-burn

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