Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World

International Title

Japanese Title

世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ
[Sekai no Chushin de, Ai o Sakebu]

Production: Toho / TBS / Hakuhodo / Shogakukan / MBS / SDP
Distributor: Toho	Japan: 2004
	Time: 138 minutes

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Details

Sakutaro Matsumoto, a man engaged to be married, discovers a series of cassette tapes containing messages left to him by his first love, Aki, who died at a young age from leukemia many years before. Unable to repress his memories of her, he ventures to the various places the recordings were made: from piers by the ocean to school gymnasiums to cemeteries. While listening to the cassettes, he begins to re-experience the emotions—both the blissful and the traumatic—along the way. His fiancee, Ritsuko, who also knew the deceased, becomes involved in the emotional journey herself. Sakutaro becomes convinced to finally fulfill a promise he made to Aki—a promise he could not keep while she was still alive....

Staff
Directed by Isao Yukisada Writing credits Isao Yukisada, Yuji Sakamoto, Kyouichi Katayama Produced by Minami Ichikawa, Kei Haruna Music by Meyna Co., Kiyoko Ogino Cinematography by Noboru Shinoda Film Editing by Takeshi Imai Assistant Director Masatoshi Kurakata
Cast
Sakutaro Matsumoto Takao Osawa Ritsuko Fujimura Ko Shibasaki Aki Hirose Masami Nagasawa Sakutaro "Saku" Matsumoto (High School Era) Mirai Moriyama Shigezou Matsumoto Tsutomu Yamazaki Ryunosuke Ooki Kankuro Kudo Johnny Kanji Tsuda Ryunosuke, High School Student Issei Takahashi Ritsuko Rio Kanno Aki's Father Tetta Sugimoto Johnny (High School Era) Katsutaka Furuhata Classmates Kenta Uchino, Aki Nishihara, Masaru Miyazaki, Marie Kawaguchi, Maika Matsumoto, Yuka Terazaki Ritsuko's Mother Misato Tanaka Yuko Nakagawa Kazusa Matsuda Sakutaro's Mother Midori Kiuchi Sakutaro's Boss Yuki Amami Movie Director Yoshimitsu Morita D.J. Misato Watanabe English Teacher Dandi Sakano Ninagawa Teacher Yoshimasa Kondo - Yoichi Okamura - Yukiko Okamoto - Masahiro Noguchi - Machiko Ono - Eri Yamazaki - Maki Horikita - Kanako Higuchi - Mark Saunders - Michael Longbottom - Charlie Brown
Monster Appearances	Aliens, SDF, Misc
None	N/A

Posters

Japan

Korea

Box Office
Release Date: May 19th, 2004 (Japan) Opening Weekend: $5,544,671 (Japan, 269 Screens) Attendance: 6,250,000 (Japan) Total: ¥8,500,000,000 / $77,000,000 (Japan, Rough Figure)

DVDs and Blu-Ray

Region 2 Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World: Standard Edition Toho (2004)
Region 2 Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World: Special Edition Toho (2004)

Reviews

Nicholas Driscoll

March 28, 2007

Patrick Galvan

June 30, 2014

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