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
Assistant Director: Masatoshi Kurakata
Producer: Kei Haruna, Minami Ichikawa
Cinematographer Noboru Shinoda
Release Date: May 8, 2004
Runtime: 138 min.
Genre: Award Winning / Award Winning-Drama / Award Winning-Romance / Award Winning-Illness / Past & Present / Award Winning-Sisters
Production Company: TBS, Toho, Stardust Promotion
Distributor: Toho
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Synopsis
Ritsuko discovers an old cassette tape, while packing her things to move into a new apartment. She listens to the tape and hears the voice of a frail girl saying “I’m so afraid of tomorrow that I can’t fall asleep. I think I’m going to die soon.” Soon after, Ritsuko leaves a sparse note for her fiance Saku, “I’m going away for a while. Don’t worry about me. – Ritsuko.” During this time a Typhoon is approaching Japan and Saku watches the news at his friends bar. He spots his fiance walking in the background of a news report at the airport. He knows Ritsuko is going to her home town of Shikoku and Saku decides to go back there as well, the place where he grew up and first met Ritsuko and the girl on the tape.
Notes
Related titles:
Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (TBS / 2004)
Cast
Takao Osawa
Kou Shibasaki
Masami Nagasawa
Mirai Moriyama
Addtional Cast Members:
Tsutomu Yamazaki - Shigezou Matsumoto
Kankuro Kudo - Ryunosuke Ooki
Kanji Tsuda - Johnny
Issei Takahashi - Ryunosuke (high school student)
Rio Kanno - Ritsuko (child)
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
Magii - Camera-ya no ten-in
Kazusa Matsuda - Yuko Nakagawa
Dandy Sakano - English teacher
Shinpei Ichikawa - photo studio customer
Kanako Higuchi
Masahiro Noguchi