Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World

Synopsis

"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

Matsumoto Sakutaro

Haruka Ayase

Hirose Aki

Naoto Ogata

Matsumoto Sakutaro (34 years)

Sachiko Sakurai

Kobayashi Aki

Kotaro Tanaka

Oki Ryunosuke

Tasuku Emoto

Nakagawa Akiyoshi

Yuika Motokariya

Ueda Tomoyo

Yuki Matsushita

Yatabe Toshimi

Katsumi Takahashi

Matsumoto Juichiro

Satoko Ôshima

Matsumoto Ayako

Kaho

Matsumoto Fumiko

Tatsuya Nakadai

Matsumoto Kentaro

Satomi Tezuka

Hirose

Tomokazu Miura

Hirose Makoto

Kei Tanaka

Yasura Tadashi

Crew

Directing

• Yuichiro Hirakawa Director
• Yasuharu Ishii Director
• Yukihiko Tsutsumi Director

Production

• Akihiko Ishimaru Producer

Sound

• Shin Kono Music
• Ko Shibasaki Theme Song Performance

Writing

• Kyouichi Katayama Novel
• Yoshiko Morishita Screenplay

Seasons & episodes