To Love

To Love (1997)

DramaRomance

Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her. Coming from a broken home, he is frightened by love, so he cruelly allows her to wake up alone. A month passes and a more grown-up Tsutomu returns. The lovers joyously reunite and move in together. All is blissful until both notice a strange sore on Mitsu's arm. The doctors diagnose it as leprosy. Without telling Tsutomu, Mitsu checks into a leper sanitarium. Hanging out with society's pariahs gives her much insight. She discovers the old lepers to be wonderful people. In turn, Mitsu becomes their source of joy and renewed hope. Still, she misses her Tsutomu. One day, the doctors inform her that they erred and that the sore is not leprosy. Happily she heads back to her true love until she realizes with a guilty pang that to return to him would mean unhappiness for her newfound friends

Director: Kei Kumai

Casts

	Miki Sakai as Mitsu Morita
	Atsuro Watabe as Tsutomu Yoshioka
	Joe Shishido as Chinen
	Chieko Matsubara as Yamagata
	Miki Sanjō as Inamura
	Tsunehiko Kamijô as Okuhara
	Ken Nishida as Nishiyama
	Kyôko Kishida as Taeko Kano
	Keiju Kobayashi as Kamijo
	Moeko Ezawa as Woman at the apartment
	Masumi Okada as Professor

Crew