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| Aoi Miyazaki | ... | Haruko Takazaki | |
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Masato Sakai | ... | Mikio Takazaki |
| Mitsuru Fukikoshi | ... | Sugiura | |
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Kanji Tsuda | ... | Kazuo Takazaki |
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Yûta Nakano | ... | Obata |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Erika Ichiki | ||
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Hiroshi Inuzuka | ... | Kawaji |
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Reiko Naname | ||
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Takako Ohashi | ... | Editor |
| Ren Osugi | ... | Yasuo Kurita (Haruko's dad) (as Ren Ôsugi) | |
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Saburô Tamura | ... | Tsuda |
| Ryôsei Tayama | ... | Kamo | |
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Tomio Umezawa | ... | Takashi Mikami |
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Jeff Wastila | ||
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Emiko Yamagishi | ... | Editor |
A husband is suffering from melancholia, and he wants to commit suicide. His wife, who is a cartoonist, forces him to quit his job for the therapy. The wife's optimism influence the husband, and they live happily ever after.
I watched this movie on a flight from Tokyo to Los Angeles, and I'm really glad I did. This movie is one of those Japanese ones that I've come to really enjoy. It combines great acting (the two main characters, a couple, have a genuine chemistry), has a nice, steady pace, and puts many important things into perspective that we often overlook, such as what it means to love one another, what a marriage means, and the serious nature of depression. The movie also has many humorous moments, along with serious ones, and left me both laughing and wanting to shed a tear. This movie is fictional but could pass as a biopic or documentary about how a couple overcame the disease together. The movie runs 2 hours but did not have any slow moments for me and I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish.