Journey of a Dying Wife

Journey of a Dying Wife (2011)

Why is it a sin for two people to be together?

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 2011-02-26
  • Runtime: 1h 53min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Image Field
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Yukinari Hanawa
5.5

Summary

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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  • Tomokazu Miura

    as Shimizu Hisanori
  • Yuriko Ishida

    as Shimizu Hitomi
  • Aki Nishihara

    as Saori
  • Baiken Jukkanji

    as Hisanori's older brother
  • Reiko Tajima

    as Hisanori's older sister
  • Fujio Tokita

    as Old man traveling by bicycle
  • Yutaka Izumihara

    as Young Hisanori
  • Denden

    as
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

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