Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World

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Movie: Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World
Romaji: Sekai no chushin de, ai o sakebu
Japanese: 世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ
Director: Isao Yukisada
Writer: Isao Yukisada, Yuji Sakamoto, Chihiro Ito
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Release Date: May 8 2004
Runtime: 138 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

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In a small regional town in 1980s southern Japan, Sakutaro "Saku" Matsumoto and Aki Hirose, who were classmates all through junior high school, become high school students and then fall in love with one another. They share audio diaries, go on excursions together, and enjoy summer vacation. However, Aki soon finds herself suffering from leukemia and begins to weaken day by day, rendering her unable to see Saku or go outside. Saku, desperate to take Aki to Uluru (Ayer's Rock) in Australia (the "Center of the World" in the Japanese title), a place she had wished to go to, desperately tries to achieve just that. Aki dies before ever boarding the plane, and Saku is left to live out his life without her.

17 years later, as an older, sombre Saku trudges through everyday existence, the last tape of Aki's audio diary is suddenly unearthed, leading Saku back to his hometown in the south, and back into his memories of his last days with Aki.

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Related titles:
1. Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (TBS / 2004)

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Takao Osawa - Sakutaro Matsumoto
Kou Shibasaki - Ritsuko Fujimura
Masami Nagasawa - Aki Hirose
Mirai Moriyama - Sakutaro Matsumoto (High School)
Tsutomu Yamazaki - Shigezou Matsumoto
Kankuro Kudo - Ryunosuke Ooki
Kanji Tsuda - Johnny
Issei Takahashi - Ryunosuke (high school student)
Rio Kanno - Ritsuko (girl)
Tetta Sugimoto - Aki's Father
Katsutaka Furuhata - Johnny (high school)
Kenta Uchino - Classmate
Aki Nishihara - Classmate
Masaru Miyazaki - Classmate
Marie Kawaguchi - Classmate
Maika Matsumoto - Classmate
Yuka Terazaki - Classmate
Magy - Camera-ya no ten-in
Kazusa Matsuda - Yuko Nakagawa
Kanako Higuchi

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