Hanamizuki
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| Directed by | Nobuhiro Doi |
| Produced by | Yasuo Yagi Kazuya Hamana Jun Nasuda |
| Written by | Noriko Yoshida |
| Starring |
Yui Aragaki Toma Ikuta |
| Cinematography | Yasushi Sasakibara |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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128 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | $5,500,000 |
| Box office | $32,990,888 |
| Hanamizuki Original Soundtrack | |
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| Soundtrack album by Takefumi Haketa | |
| Released | 10 August 2010 |
| Length | 41 minutes |
| Label | Columbia Music Entertainment (COCP-36327) |
Hanamizuki (ハナミズキ Hanamizuki?) is a 2010 Japanese romance drama film inspired by the lyrics of a love song of the same name by Yō Hitoto. The film is directed by Nobuhiro Doi, and its script was written by Noriko Yoshida. The film spans the ten-year period from 1996 to 2006, and it stars Yui Aragaki as Sae, a high school student who later grows into a young adult.Toma Ikuta also stars in this film, playing the role of Kouhei, Sae's boyfriend and an aspiring fisherman.
Sae and Kouhei met by accident on a train when they were both high school students, and a relationship starts to form. Later, when Sae needs to leave Hokkaido to go to Tokyo for studies, the two of them attempted to have a long distance relationship. However, their bond is tested by multiple challenges facing the two of them.
Hanamizuki was first released in Japanese cinemas on 21 August 2010. It subsequently made its international debut at the 30th Hawaii International Film Festival. The film received a mixed reception from critics, and grossed over US$32,990,888, making it the 12th highest grossing Japanese film of 2010.
This film spans the years of 1996 to 2006.
It begins in the year 2005 when Sae is traveling to her birthplace of Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia in Canada. On the bus, she looks at a photo, and the scene immediately goes back to 1996. Sae and Kouhei met on a train ride to their respective college entrance examinations. The train hit a deer, causing Sae to worry about being late for the examinations. They went to a nearby house to ask if the owners could give them a lift. Sae spotted a key in the truck parked at the porch. She asked Kouhei if he would "borrow" the truck to take her to the exam center. However, when Kouhei tried to overtake a slow cow truck, he narrowly avoided an incoming crane, and went off the road into a ditch. They were brought to a police station and Sae was disqualified from her examinations.
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