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Be with You

2004 · 119 min

A tender, bittersweet tearjerker that slowly unfolds a love story through memory and loss, leaving a warm ache.

Tagline: A six-week miracle, a lifelong love.
Overview: Takumi and his six-year-old son, Yuji, haven't come to terms with their wife and mother's death. One day, they meet a woman with an uncanny resemblance to her sheltering from the rain near their home.

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 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
family
memory
parenthood
Places: small town
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	7
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama, fantasy, romance
Directed by: Nobuhiro Doi
Written by: Yoshikazu Okada
Starring: Yuko Takeuchi, Shidou Nakamura, Akashi Takei, Yōsuke Asari, Chihiro Ohtsuka, Yuta Hiraoka, Mikako Ichikawa, Katsuo Nakamura
Music: Suguru Matsutani
Cinematography: Takahide Shibanushi
Runtime: 119 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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