Complete (J-Drama) Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu

Complete (J-Drama) Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu

Title: 世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ

Title (romaji): Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu

Also known as: Crying out Love, in the Centre of the World

Renzoku

Genre: Romance, Human drama

Episodes: 11 + 1 Special

Broadcast network: TBS

Broadcast period: 2004, July 02 to 2004, September 10

Air time: Friday 22:00-22:54

Theme song: Katachi Aru Mono by Shibasaki Kou

Synopsis

"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It's 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks "I have been in a world without her for 17 years." Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then. Based on the bestselling novel that sold over 3 million copies, the past and present come together in this love story that is both pure and sad.

Cast

Yamada Takayuki as Matsumoto Sakutaro (17)

Ayase Haruka as Hirose Aki (17)

Ogata Naoto as Matsumoto Sakutaro (34)

Sakurai Sachiko as Kobayashi Aki (34)

Tanaka Koutaro as Oki Ryunosuke (17)

Emoto Tasuku as Nakagawa Akiyoshi (17)

Motokariya Yuika as Ueda Tomoyo (17)

Kaho as Matsumoto Fumiko (13)

Matsushita Yuki as Yatabe Toshimi (35, 52)

Takahashi Katsumi as Matsumoto Juichiro (47, 64)

Oshima Satoko as Matsumoto Ayako (43, 60)

Tezuka Satomi as Hirose Makoto (43, 60)

Miura Tomokazu as Hirose Makoto (48, 65)

Nakadai Tatsuya as Matsumoto Kentaro (70)

Nakajou Tomoaya as Kobayashi Kazuki (6)

Tanaka Kei as Yasura Tadashi (17)

Asaka Yuki as Ikeda Kumi (17)

Mizuno Haruka as Kurosawa Chihiro (17)

Asano Kazuyuki as the Doctor

Takeno Isao as the takoyaki vendor

Uematsu Mami as grandpa's young lover

Okayama Hajime as Ueda Tomoyo's father (ep5)

Toba Jun as Junpei (ep6-7)

Asai Erina as Yasuda

Hirano Aya

Movie

Release Date: 2004, May 08

Synopsis

Ritsuko discovers an old cassette tape, while packing her things to move into a new apartment. She listens to the tape and hears the voice of a frail girl saying “I’m so afraid of tomorrow that I can’t fall asleep. I think I’m going to die soon.” Soon after, Ritsuko leaves a sparse note for her fiance Saku, “I’m going away for a while. Don’t worry about me. – Ritsuko.” During this time a Typhoon is approaching Japan and Saku watches the news at his friends bar. He spots his fiance walking in the background of a news report at the airport. He knows Ritsuko is going to her home town of Shikoku and Saku decides to go back there as well, the place where he grew up and first met Ritsuko and the girl on the tape.

Cast

Takao Osawa as Sakutaro Matsumoto

Kou Shibasaki as Ritsuko Fujimura

Masami Nagasawa as Aki Hirose

Mirai Moriyama as Sakutaro Matsumoto (High School)

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Shigezou Matsumoto

Kankuro Kudo as Ryunosuke Ooki

Kanji Tsuda as Johnny

Issei Takahashi as Ryunosuke (high school student)

Rio Kanno as Ritsuko (child)

Tetta Sugimoto as Aki's Father

Katsutaka Furuhata as Johnny (high school)

Kenta Uchino as Classmate

Aki Nishihara as Classmate

Masaru Miyazaki as Classmate

Marie Kawaguchi as Classmate

Maika Matsumoto as Classmate

Yuka Terazaki as Classmate

Magii as Camera-ya no ten-in

Kazusa Matsuda - Yuko Nakagawa

Kanako Higuchi

Masahiro Noguchi