Letters from Nirai Kanai (2005)
Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photographer. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuki to live in Tokyo. Although Masami has not come back, Fuki receives birthday cards from Masami every year on her birthday. On Fuki's fourteenth birthday, Masami promises to confess everything when Fuki becomes 20 years old. After her graduation from high school, Fuki moves to Tokyo to work as a camera assistant. Fuki starts off her hectic life in Tokyo, and soon, her nineteenth birthday comes. As usual, she receives a birthday card from Masami. A year later...
Director: Naoto Kumazawa
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Yu Aoi as Fuki Asato |
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Yuta Kanai as Nadashi Uchimori |
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Kaho Minami as Masami Asato |
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Susumu Taira as Shoei Asato |
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Hitomi Kawai as Reyna |
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Manami Higa as Misaki Taira |
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Ayumu Saito as Sakiyama |
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Gin Maeda as Tanaka |
| Production | Yoshinori Wakisaka | Producer |
| Writing | Naoto Kumazawa | Writer |
| Directing | Naoto Kumazawa | Director |
| Editing | Takao Yamanaka | Editor |
| Sound | Masashi Furuya | Sound Assistant |
| Production | Masahiro Izutsu | Executive Producer |
| Production | Hiroaki Miki | Co-Producer |
| Production | Takashi Takenouchi | Co-Producer |
| Art | Hidefumi Hanatani | Production Design |
| Production | Makihiro Higuchi | Line Producer |
| Production | Shûichirô Shibata | Co-Producer |
| Production | Hiroyuki Horikomi | Co-Producer |
| Production | Taro Nagamatsuya | Co-Producer |
| Production | Akiko Sasaki | Co-Producer |
| Camera | Masayuki Fujii | Director of Photography |
| Crew | Kenny Kusaka | Post-Production Manager |
| Sound | Haseo Nakanishi | Original Music Composer |