is a 2002 Japanese movie

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by Shinohara Tetsuo starring Esumi Makiko and

Etsushi Toyokawa is a Japanese actor. Biography Born in Yao, Osaka, he studied at Shimizudani High School, and eventually dropped out of Kwansei Gakuin University to pursue a career in acting. He began by joining the sho-gekijo theatrical troupe "Under Thir ...

. It is based on a memoir of the same title by the Korean-Japanese author Yu Miri.

Plot summary

Yu Miri (Esumi) is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka (Toyokawa), now struggling with terminal

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, decides to help raise him, pledging to "live long enough to hear him say my name."

External links

* 2002 films 2002 drama films 2000s Japanese-language films Films directed by Tetsuo Shinohara 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub