Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World

A slow, tender plunge into first love and lasting grief, unfolding in quiet flashbacks that ache with nostalgia and loss.

Created by

Kyouichi Katayama

Genres

Drama

Starring

Takayuki Yamada, Haruka Ayase, Naoto Ogata

Overview

"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.

How it feels

Melancholic, romantic, earnest and bleak. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Grief, love, memory, death

Content

Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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