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Diary of a Mad Old Man

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Diary of a Mad Old Man

Diary of a Mad Old Man

direction Wayne Wang

USA 2026 Fiction Cor 120 min.

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Utsugi is a 69-year-old widower recovering from a stroke. Confined to his home and dependent on his daughter-in-law Susu, Utsugi begins to see her kindly attention as a complicity of caring and a concealed sexual invitation. As their charged encounters escalate, the boundaries between seduction and projection, intimacy and manipulation, begin to dissolve.

usa family body & mind relationships & sexuality from word to image

technical sheet

direction

Wayne Wang

screenplay

Kelvin Wyles

cinematography

Koichi Furuya

editing

Ashley Pagàn, Masahide Koura

sound design

Yuki Yaei

music

Arthur Sharpe

production design

Tomoya Hatake

cast

Lily Franky, Fan Bingbing, Takumi Saito, Youki Kudoh, Asana Mamoru, Momoka Ayukawa, Osamu Yo

production

Shozo Ichiyama, Francey Grace, Andrei Epifanov, Eleonora Granata-Jenkinson

produced by

Fourier Films, Cinetrain, Melograno Films, Berjaya Entertainment SDN.BHD, Nobu Pictures, Tannpopo

world sales

Rediance

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