http://asianwiki.com/Secret_(1999-Japan)   - **Name:** 秘密 - **Name (romaji):** Himitsu - **Name (English):** Secret - **Director:** Takita Yōjirō - **Writer:** Saitō Hiroshi, Higashino Keigo (novel) - **Producer:** Mase Yasuhiro, Sindo Junichi, Tagami Setsuro - **Music**: Takeuchi Mariya, Uzaki Ryudo - **Cinematography:** Kayano Naoki - **Release Date:** 25 September 1999 - **Runtime:** 119 minutes - **Movie Studio:** TBS Pictures   #### **Synopsis** Naoko (Kishimoto Kayoko) and her 17-year-old daughter Monami (Hirosue Ryoko) are hospitalized after their bus plunges off the edge of a cliff. Just as Naoko is about to die, she manages to transfer her soul to her daughter's body so as not to be separated from her husband Heisuke (Kobayashi Kaoru).   #### **Cast** - **Hirosue Ryoko** ... *Sugita Monami / Sugita Naoko* - **Kobayashi Kaoru** ... *Sugita Heisuke* - Kaneko Ken ... *Kajikawa Fumio* - Ishida Yuriko ... *Hashimoto Taeko* - Ito Hideaki ... *Soma Haruki* - Shinohara Tomoe ... *Kimura Kuniko* - Kishimoto Kayoko ... *Sugita Naoko* - Shibata Rie ... *Yoshimoto Kazuko* - Osugi Ren ... *Kajikawa Hiroyuki* - Yamatani Hatsuo ... *Sugita Naoko*   #### **Awards** - **Sitges Film Festival:** Best Actress (**Hirosue Ryoko**) - **Sitges Film Festival:** Best Screenplay (**Saitō Hiroshi**)    - [**English Subtitles**](https://subscene.com/subtitles/secret-himitsu/english/905989) **See also:** [**2010 TV Drama**](https://nyaa.si/view/1152424) (based on the same novel)