愛する (1997)
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her. Coming from a broken home, he is frightened by love, so he cruelly allows her to wake up alone. A month passes and a more grown-up Tsutomu returns. The lovers joyously reunite and move in together. All is blissful until both notice a strange sore on Mitsu's arm. The doctors diagnose it as leprosy. Without telling Tsutomu, Mitsu checks into a leper sanitarium. Hanging out with society's pariahs gives her much insight. She discovers the old lepers to be wonderful people. In turn, Mitsu becomes their source of joy and renewed hope. Still, she misses her Tsutomu. One day, the doctors inform her that they erred and that the sore is not leprosy. Happily she heads back to her true love until she realizes with a guilty pang that to return to him would mean unhappiness for her newfound friends
Cast
- Miki Sakai — Mitsu Morita
- 渡部篤郎 — Tsutomu Yoshioka
- Joe Shishido — Chinen
- Chieko Matsubara — Yamagata
- 三條美紀 — Inamura
- 上條恒彦 — Okuhara
- 西田健 — Nishiyama
- 岸田今日子 — Taeko Kano
- Keiju Kobayashi — Kamijo
- 絵沢萠子 — Woman at the apartment
- 岡田眞澄 — Professor
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- Cuori di vetro 2009 · ★ 6.3
- Newness 2017 · ★ 6.1
- Nessuno deve sapere 2022 · ★ 6.7
- I Give My First Love to You 2009 · ★ 7.4
- Time Is Up 2021 · ★ 6.5
- See You Soon 2019 · ★ 5.9
- His Motorbike, Her Island 1986 · ★ 7.7