Trailer - Vengeance Can Wait (Ranbō to Taiki)

The trailer for Masanori Tominaga’s Vengeance Can Wait has been released slightly ahead of schedule exclusively via the Japanese film site Cinema Cafe. The film is based on a 2005 play by Yukiko Motoya. In 2008, she adapted it to a novel with illustrations by longtime Gainax animator and protegé of Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki.

The film revolves around a man named Hidenori (Tadanobu Asano) and woman named Nanase (Minami) who share an intense and bizarre relationship. Although the two are not actually related in any way, Nanase calls Hidenori “Onii-chan” (older brother) and the two sleep on a bunk bed. Their living arrangement began in the wake of an accident, and Nanase has spent 10 years waiting for Hidenori to take the revenge on her she feels she deserves.

Their relationship changes when Takao (Takayuki Yamada) and his pregnant wife Azusa (Eiko Koike) move into the neighborhood. While peeping through a hole in the ceiling from the attic, Hidenori sees Takao cheating on his wife with Nanase. Eventually, Azusa catches the two of them in the act and threatens Nanase violently with a kitchen knife. After the incident, Hidenori spends every night observing Nanase from the attic, waiting for the opportunity to enact “the most terrible revenge in the world”. Nanase is perfectly willing to live in fear, hoping that he’ll stop hating her when he gets it out of his system.

“Vengeance Can Wait” will be collaboratively released by Media Factory and Showgate later this year.