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Journey of a Dying Wife

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Calorie Rating: 159
Released: 2011-02-26
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Studios: Image Field,


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.

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Cast

Tomokazu Miura
Character: Shimizu Hisanori
Yuriko Ishida
Character: Shimizu Hitomi
Aki Nishihara
Character: Saori

Baiken Jukkanji
Character: Hisanori's older brother
Reiko Tajima
Character: Hisanori's older sister
Fujio Tokita
Character: Old man traveling by bicycle

Yutaka Izumihara
Character: Young Hisanori


Production and Crew

Kota Yamada
Screenplay

Seiya Horio
Associate Producer
Ken Handa
Co-Executive Producer

Shoko Sato
Sound Effects
Hiroyuki Akune
Executive Producer