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8.4 1 Seasons • 11 Episodes

Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World

"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.

Seasons

Top Cast

  • Takayuki Yamada

    Takayuki Yamada

    Matsumoto Sakutaro

  • Haruka Ayase

    Haruka Ayase

    Hirose Aki

  • Naoto Ogata

    Naoto Ogata

    Matsumoto Sakutaro (34 years)

  • Sachiko Sakurai

    Sachiko Sakurai

    Kobayashi Aki

  • Kotaro Tanaka

    Kotaro Tanaka

    Oki Ryunosuke

  • Tasuku Emoto

    Tasuku Emoto

    Nakagawa Akiyoshi

  • Yuika Motokariya

    Yuika Motokariya

    Ueda Tomoyo

  • Yuki Matsushita

    Yuki Matsushita

    Yatabe Toshimi

  • Katsumi Takahashi

    Katsumi Takahashi

    Matsumoto Juichiro

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.

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