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Crying Out Love in the Center of the World is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Isao Yukisada with Takao Ōsawa

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004)

Sekai no chūshin de, ai o sakebu

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
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Length 2h18
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating71% 3.5975953.5975953.5975953.5975953.597595

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ, Sekai no Chūshin de, Ai o Sakebu) is a 2004 Japanese drama film based on the novel Socrates in Love by Kyoichi Katayama. The story follows a man who returns to his hometown and listens to audio diaries recorded by his school sweetheart before her death.

The film opened in Japan on 8 May 2004, which brought Masami Nagasawa recognition as an actress. It was a financial success, and its theme song, "Hitomi o Tojite" (With My Eyes Closed) by Ken Hirai, became a successful single.

Synopsis

In a neglected box in her Tokyo apartment, Ritsuko finds a teenage girl's audio diary on an old cassette. Her fiancee Saku spots her in a television report at Takamatsu Airport about an approaching typhoon; he realizes she has gone to their hometown in Shikoku and goes after her. At his family home, he discovers a box of audio cassettes. He listens to them while retracting his steps from his school life.

Actors

Takao Ōsawa

(Sakutaro Matsumoto)
Mirai Moriyama

(Sakutaro Matsumoto (High School))
Kō Shibasaki

(Ritsuko Fujimura)
Masami Nagasawa

(Aki Hirose)
Tsutomu Yamazaki

(Shigezou Matsumoto)
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