Journey of a Dying Wife (2011)
Why is it a crime for two people to be together? In the silence so profound that you could even hear the sound of falling snow, the man buried his wife alone. That was what his wife had wished for. When a loved one is dying, what can one do for them? 272 days, 6000 km—this is the true story of a couple's extraordinary love. December 2, 1999. A small article about the arrest of a man appeared on the social page of the newspaper. The charge was "abandonment resulting in death"—the crime of abandoning someone who needed assistance due to old age, childhood, physical disability, or illness, and causing their death. The man had been wandering around Japan for nine months with his wife, who had terminal cancer, in a van. In the fall of 2000, the monthly magazine "Shincho 45" published the memoir of the arrested man, Hisanori Shimizu, in two issues, which caused a great sensation.
Director:
Yukinari Hanawa
Writer:
Kota Yamada
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Tomokazu Miura as Shimizu Hisanori |
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Yuriko Ishida as Shimizu Hitomi |
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Aki Nishihara as Saori |
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Baiken Jukkanji as Hisanori's older brother |
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Reiko Tajima as Hisanori's older sister |
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Fujio Tokita as Old man traveling by bicycle |
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Yutaka Izumihara as Young Hisanori |
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| Writing | Hisanori Shimizu | Novel |
| Directing | Yukinari Hanawa | Director |
| Writing | Kota Yamada | Screenplay |
| Production | HONOKI Hiromi | Producer |
| Production | Seiya Horio | Associate Producer |
| Production | Ken Handa | Co-Executive Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Masae Miyamoto | Costumer |
| Editing | Nobuko Tomita | Editor |
| Sound | Shoko Sato | Sound Effects |
| Production | Hiroyuki Akune | Executive Producer |
