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I Give My First Love to You

2009 · 122 min

A slow, tender tearjerker that aches with doomed young love and quiet heartbreak.

Directed by
Takehiko Shinjo
Genres
Drama, Romance
Starring
Mao Inoue, Masaki Okada, Tetta Sugimoto
Overview
Takuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting near. He chose to stay away from the girl that he loves so that she can easily move on. What he didn't know is that he is under-estimating her.

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Directed by
Takehiko Shinjo
Genres
Drama, Romance
Starring
Mao Inoue, Masaki Okada, Tetta Sugimoto
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    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • love
    • death
    • grief
    • coming-of-age
    • fate
    Places
    • school
    • hospital
    • countryside
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    teen
    Form
    • true story
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
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    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism7
    Romance8
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity3
    Emotional weight9

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    Details

    Genres
    drama, romance
    Directed by
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    Written by
    Kenji Bando
    Starring
    Mao Inoue, Masaki Okada, Tetta Sugimoto, Yōko Moriguchi, Yoshihiko Hosoda, Natsuki Harada, Toru Nakamura, Yuki Terada
    Music
    Yoshihiro Ike
    Cinematography
    Mitsuru Komiyama, Masatoshi Takeyama
    Runtime
    122 min
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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