Good instincts from Manabu Endou, mixed result

Manabu Endou gives this role a little extra shape without making a big show of it. It feels like the role needed another layer that never quite showed up. It never really locked in for me. The performance does the job, but not much more than that. I kept waiting for a more specific angle on the character. A few choices felt pushed, and that pulled me out of the scene. That is the part I kept thinking about after the movie ended.