License to Live

License to Live

Am I dreaming? Did I really exist?

1999 · 110 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama, Comedy

Having fallen into a coma following a car accident at 14, Yutaka wakes ten years later and realizes that his family is no longer intact: father, mother and sister live at different places, so he decides to reopen the farm that his family once ran.

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa · Written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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