Hanamizuki (2010)

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• Movie: Hanamizuki -May your love bloom a hundred year-
• Romaji: Hanamizuki
• Japanese: ハナミズキ
• Director: Nobuhiro Doi
• Assistant Director: Toshimasa Miyamura
• Writer: Noriko Yoshida
• Producer: Yasuo Yagi, Kazuya Hamana, Jun Nasuda
• Cinematographer: Yasushi Sasakibara
• Release Date: August 21, 2010
• Runtime: 128 min.
• Genre: Romance / Teen
• Production Company: Toho, TBS
• Distributor: Toho
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Synopsis

Sae (Yui Aragaki) is a high school student who is studying hard for her college entrance exams. She lost her father when she was very young and so lives her mother Ryoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru) in Hokkaido, Japan. Her father Kemimichi (Arata Iura) once planted a dogwood tree in their garden after he found out he had a terminal disease and could not watch Sae grow up. She hopes to enter a university in Tokyo.

She then meets Kouhei (Toma Ikuta), who attends a specialized high school teaching fishery. He hopes to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as a fisherman. These two young people meet and have a long distance relationship. Although their love is strong it does not last.

10 years later these two people have a miracle …