Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World

Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World

2004 · 1 season · 11 eps · ★ 8.4 · Drama

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"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It's 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks "I have been in a world without her for 17 years." Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then.

Created by Kyouichi Katayama

Network: TBS

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Takayuki Yamada Matsumoto Sakutaro
Haruka Ayase Hirose Aki
Naoto Ogata Matsumoto Sakutaro (34 years)
Sachiko Sakurai Kobayashi Aki
Kotaro Tanaka Oki Ryunosuke
Tasuku Emoto Nakagawa Akiyoshi
Yuika Motokariya Ueda Tomoyo
Yuki Matsushita Yatabe Toshimi
Katsumi Takahashi Matsumoto Juichiro
Satoko Ôshima Matsumoto Ayako
Kaho Matsumoto Fumiko
Tatsuya Nakadai Matsumoto Kentaro

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