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Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

2004 · 138 min

A slow, tender plunge into first love and lingering grief, told through cassette tapes and rain-soaked memories that quietly devastate.

Overview
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • love
  • memory
  • death
  • healing
Places
  • small town
  • hospital
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism7
Romance8
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Isao Yukisada
Written by
Isao Yukisada, Yuji Sakamoto, Chihiro Ito
Starring
Takao Osawa, Ko Shibasaki, Masami Nagasawa, Mirai Moriyama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kankuro Kudo, Kanji Tsuda, Issey Takahashi
Music
Hidehiko Urayama, Yôko Kumagai
Cinematography
Noboru Shinoda
Runtime
138 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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