Toward the Wilderness

Toward the Wilderness (2015) is a drama series directed by Sounobu Yamauchi, Takayoshi Watanabe, Tomoya Kanazawa.

Morimura Tomomi is a housewife scorned by her husband and two sons, and yet she continues to protect the family. On her 46th birthday, she leaves home in disgust and embarks on a 1,200 km journey. It is Tomomi’s first time driving onto the highway and she speeds along to the west. On the road, she encounters a series of traumatising episodes. She detects her husband’s affair, is faced with a truck driver who mistakes her for a prostitute housewife, and finally her car gets stolen. While Tomomi is at a loss, a good-looking young man and an elderly person give her a ride, and she arrives in Nagasaki. As she meets various people in this town which was once transformed into a wasteland because of the atomic bomb, she becomes aware of a “wilderness” within her and starts to explore the path to rebirth

Cast

Kyoka Suzuki

Morimura Tomomi

Tetta Sugimoto

Morimura Hiromitsu

Issey Takahashi

Kameda Shogo

YOU

Takigawa Chisako

Goki Maeda

Morimura Kenta

Tatsuomi Hamada

Morimura Yuta

Denden

Tomita