The Good Father (2022 film)

The Good Father (この子は邪悪) is a 2022 Japanese suspense horror film directed and written by Shō Kataoka and starring Sara Minami.

Plot
Five years ago, the psychotherapist Shiro Kubo (Hiroshi Tamaki) and his family ended up in a car accident. Her wife Mayuko is in the hospital in a vegetative state, and her younger daughter Luna suffered burns and now spends her time at home and wears masks that cover her whole face. Kubo himself now walks with a limp. His older daughter Hana (Sara Minami) was miraculously unhurt, but suffers from a trauma and has stopped going to school.

Hana befriends Jun (Ryūsei Ōnishi), a local high school boy who's the same age as her. Jun is investigating a strange phenomenon where various people in the city have seemed to lost their humanity and ability to walk and speak; his own mother has also been a victim. Jun starts to suspect that Hana's father might have something to do with the phenomenon.

One day, Hana's father brings home a woman (Yuki Sakurai) who he says is their mother, who has miraculously woken up from her coma. However, Hana can't seem to shake the feeling that something is off, and that the woman looks completely different than the mother she remembers.

Cast

 * Hana Kubo: Sara Minami
 * Jun Yotsui: Ryūsei Ōnishi (Naniwa Danshi)
 * Mayuko Kubo: Yuki Sakurai
 * Luna Kubo: Sakura Watanabe
 * Mayuko Kubo: Rina Sakuragi
 * Jun's Grandmother: Miyoko Inagawa
 * Ryutaro Ninomiya
 * Shiro Kubo: Hiroshi Tamaki

Awards

 * Fantasporto 2022: Special Mention of the Fantasy Jury