Twelve year old Sei has hit puberty and is quickly becoming sexually aware, sometimes not as privately as he'd like; erections in school and other inopportune times plague him. He talks about it with his school friends, Kinta and Nyanko, in between their feuding over the affections of classmate Yumi, but can't figure out what to do about it.
Acting
Masahiro Hisano's painfully real performance as mortified preteen Sei.
Direction
Shin Togashi's unflinching but tender eye for adolescent humiliation.
Writing
Dialogue that captures how boys actually talk when adults aren't around.
Director
Shin Togashi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's title 'Sorry' references how constantly Japanese adolescents apologize for existing—especially when bodies defy social rules.
Director Shin Togashi cast non-actors from local schools to capture authentic preteen awkwardness; many scenes were improvised.
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