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Be with You
Why this pick
Like Crying Out Love in the Center of the World, it turns grief into a tender, rain-soaked romance, using memory and absence to create a quietly overwhelming emotional pull.
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MOVIE2004 2h 18m JPN
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In a neglected box in her Tokyo apartment, Ritsuko finds a teenage girl's audio diary on an old cassette. Ritsuko's fiancée 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. There, at his family home, he discovers a box of audio cassettes. He listens to them while retracting his steps from his school life.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Shigezou Matsumoto
Kanji Tsuda
Johnny
Tetta Sugimoto
Aki's Father
Machiko Ono
Mirai Moriyama
Sakutaro Matsumoto
Masami Nagasawa
Aki Hirose
Issey Takahashi
Ryunosuke (high school student)
Ko Shibasaki
Ritsuko Fujimura