The Hungry Lion (film)

• Urara Matsubayashi as Hitomo Sugimoto • Atomu Mizuishi as Hiroki Fujigawa • Mariko Tsutsui as Yuko Sugimoto • as Nanami Oda • Sakiko Kato as Moe Sasaki • Tomomi Sugai as Misaki Kinoshita • as Asuka Sugimoto • as Tetsuya Kondo • as Tsuyoshi Hosono • as Kohei Nishijima • as Atsushi Togawa ==Release==

The film premiered at the 2017 Tokyo International Film Festival on 27 October. ==Reception==

Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter called the film a "timely critique that will doubtless fall on deaf ears." Mark Schilling of The Japan Times rated the film 4 stars out of 5 and wrote that with "cool restraint and precision" it "illustrates the process by which the internet destroys, celebrates and forgets a young life touched by scandal." ==References==