Birthright Saitai

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On her walk to school, teenage Ayano (Yagyu Miyu) is abducted by a stranger disguised in a school uniform. She awakes in a locked basement to find that her kidnapper will not utter a word and seems intent on starving her to death. Meanwhile, Ayano's distraught mother, Naoko (Takizawa Ryoko), discovers that the abduction has roots in her own dark past. Eighteen years earlier, she cruelly dumped her first child on the streets of Tokyo. Having grown up in an orphanage, Mika (Oho Sayoko) learned that her mother had remarried and given birth to another daughter, as if nothing had happened. Now she burns with the desire for vengeance by making Ayano suffer as she has suffered. The debut feature by young Japanese director Naoki Hashimoto, this psychological horror offers a shocking twist on the issue of child abandonment.