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Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World
8.1
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12 x 55m
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2004
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Ended
Overview
"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It's 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks "I have been in a world without her for 17 years." Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then.
Cast
![Takayuki Yamada pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2F7AoFehLxQcNNWGULHz0U8GkW846.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Takayuki Yamada
Matsumoto Sakutaro
![Haruka Ayase pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FoUfDmm4jJ03Vs58Ys64f1E219Ix.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Haruka Ayase
Hirose Aki
![Naoto Ogata pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2F9vAzFrvZQORqxHK9flS9cRIhOMb.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Naoto Ogata
Matsumoto Sakutaro (34 years)
![Sachiko Sakurai pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2Fo8a02GBsLpanegkuPl9fLAJEUmy.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Sachiko Sakurai
Kobayashi Aki
![Kotaro Tanaka pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2Fn4lr2cAwE3Ntzcos8zCbaHwzew0.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Kotaro Tanaka
Oki Ryunosuke
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Tasuku Emoto
Nakagawa Akiyoshi
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Yuika Motokariya
Ueda Tomoyo
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Yuki Matsushita
Yatabe Toshimi
![Katsumi Takahashi pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FfXNmkKfdAr7rvpUJe9DPoiAmL77.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Katsumi Takahashi
Matsumoto Juichiro
![Satoko Ôshima pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FcSoGrc3jOUvMTELJ2r3FhahzXWF.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Satoko Ôshima
Matsumoto Ayako
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Kaho
Matsumoto Fumiko
![Tatsuya Nakadai pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2F4LygOe0vFQplLIft5IUWI5OewPX.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Tatsuya Nakadai
Matsumoto Kentaro
![Satomi Tezuka pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2Ft36n2ifefuvCWyhkXmWRpJA5AB.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Satomi Tezuka
Hirose
![Tomokazu Miura pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2F2tKusMF6dzGOfH7MM73FCsJzRoJ.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Tomokazu Miura
Hirose Makoto
![Kei Tanaka pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2F7ubT1Q0bDYIvFZBXnzdKzB0YGN.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Kei Tanaka
Yasura Tadashi
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