Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World
02/07/2004
"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.
TV Show Information
Takayuki Yamada
as Matsumoto Sakutaro
Haruka Ayase
as Hirose Aki
Naoto Ogata
as Matsumoto Sakutaro (34 years)
Sachiko Sakurai
as Kobayashi Aki
Kotaro Tanaka
as Oki Ryunosuke
Tasuku Emoto
as Nakagawa Akiyoshi
Yuika Motokariya
as Ueda Tomoyo
Yuki Matsushita
as Yatabe Toshimi
Katsumi Takahashi
as Matsumoto Juichiro
Satoko Ôshima
as Matsumoto Ayako
Kaho
as Matsumoto Fumiko
Tatsuya Nakadai
as Matsumoto Kentaro
Satomi Tezuka
as Hirose
Tomokazu Miura
as Hirose Makoto
Kei Tanaka
as Yasura Tadashi
