Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World

Sekai no chûshin de, ai o sakebu

Japan

2004

138 Min

Color

2.35:1

Japanese

Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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PROD Kei Haruna, Minami Ichikawa

SCR Yuji Sakamoto, Chihiro Itou, Isao Yukisada, Kyouichi Katayama

CAST Takao Osawa, Kô Shibasaki, Kankuro Kudo, Masami Nagasawa, Mirai Moriyama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kanji Tsuda

In 1980s Kyushu, two teenagers fell in love, and exchanged their secrets and thoughts by way of sending tape recordings to each other. More than a decade later, the boy (now grown-up and embittered) rediscovers the last recording of his long-dead lover’s voice. Her words trigger a series of flashbacks illustrating the joyful beginning and tragic end of their relationship. –IMDb

Director

Isao Yukisada

Isao Yukisada was born in Kumamoto in 1968. He first worked as an assistant director on Shunji Iwai’s films Love Letter and Swallowtail Butterfly and then, in 1998, for Seiichi Tanabe on his film, Dog Food. Ever since his tragedy, Himawari/Sunflower, which received the international critics’ award at Pusan International Festival in 2000, he has come to be regarded as one of the up and coming talents of Japanese cinema. He contributed to the video series, “Love Cinema” with a piece entitled Tojiru Hi/Enclosed Pain, screened at Locarno 2001. Go was Japan’s selection to the Foreign Language Oscars. —ilovemarrakech.com