Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (2004)

07/02/2004 (JP) • 55m

Drama

Overview

"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.

Top Billed Cast

Takayuki Yamada

Matsumoto Sakutaro

12 Episodes

Haruka Ayase

Hirose Aki

12 Episodes

Naoto Ogata

Matsumoto Sakutaro (34 years)

12 Episodes

Sachiko Sakurai

Kobayashi Aki

12 Episodes

Kotaro Tanaka

Oki Ryunosuke

12 Episodes

Tasuku Emoto

Nakagawa Akiyoshi

12 Episodes

Yuika Motokariya

Ueda Tomoyo

12 Episodes

Yuki Matsushita

Yatabe Toshimi

12 Episodes

Katsumi Takahashi

Matsumoto Juichiro

12 Episodes


Last Season

Season 1

2004 | 12 Episodes

Season 1 of Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World premiered on July 2, 2004.

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Status

Ended

Network

network

Type

Scripted

Original Language

Japanese

Keywords

based on novel or book

high school

terminal illness

romance

tragedy

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