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Inochi is a film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara with Makiko Esumi
Inochi (2002)
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Inochi (命, lit. "life") is a 2002 Japanese movie directed by Shinohara Tetsuo starring Esumi Makiko and Etsushi Toyokawa. It is based on a memoir of the same title by the Korean-Japanese author Yu Miri.
Synopsis
Yu Miri (Esumi) is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka (Toyokawa), now struggling with terminal cancer, decides to help raise him, pledging to "live long enough to hear him say my name."Actors
Makiko Esumi
(Miri Yu)
Etsushi Toyokawa
(Yutaka Higashi)
Kumiko Asō
(Younger Sister)
Mitsuru Hirata
(Yamamuro)
Toshie Negishi
(Sugihara)
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