Movie: Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World Romaji: Sekai no chushin de, ai o sakebu Japanese: 世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ Director: Isao Yukisada Writer: Isao Yukisada, Yuji Sakamoto, Chihiro Ito Assistant Director: Masatoshi Kurakata Producer: Kei Haruna, Minami Ichikawa Cinematographer Noboru Shinoda Release Date: May 8, 2004 Runtime: 138 min. Genre: Award Winning / Award Winning-Drama / Award Winning-Romance / Award Winning-Illness / Past & Present / Award Winning-Sisters Production Company: TBS, Toho, Stardust Promotion Distributor: Toho Language: Japanese Country: Japan **Synopsis** Ritsuko discovers an old cassette tape, while packing her things to move into a new apartment. She listens to the tape and hears the voice of a frail girl saying “I’m so afraid of tomorrow that I can’t fall asleep. I think I’m going to die soon.” Soon after, Ritsuko leaves a sparse note for her fiance Saku, “I’m going away for a while. Don’t worry about me. – Ritsuko.” During this time a Typhoon is approaching Japan and Saku watches the news at his friends bar. He spots his fiance walking in the background of a news report at the airport. He knows Ritsuko is going to her home town of Shikoku and Saku decides to go back there as well, the place where he grew up and first met Ritsuko and the girl on the tape. **Notes Related titles:** Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (TBS / 2004) **Cast** Takao Osawa Kou Shibasaki Masami Nagasawa Mirai Moriyama **Addtional Cast Members:** Tsutomu Yamazaki - Shigezou Matsumoto Kankuro Kudo - Ryunosuke Ooki Kanji Tsuda - Johnny Issei Takahashi - Ryunosuke (high school student) Rio Kanno - Ritsuko (child) Tetta Sugimoto - Aki's Father Katsutaka Furuhata - Johnny (high school) Kenta Uchino - Classmate Aki Nishihara - Classmate Masaru Miyazaki - Classmate Marie Kawaguchi - Classmate Maika Matsumoto - Classmate Yuka Terazaki - Classmate Magii - Camera-ya no ten-in Kazusa Matsuda - Yuko Nakagawa Dandy Sakano - English teacher Shinpei Ichikawa - photo studio customer Kanako Higuchi Masahiro Noguchi