Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love—until she meets a man named Kazuto Manabe at a school reunion.
Acting
Nana Komatsu breaks your heart without breaking character.
Cinematography
Golden hour worship that makes sadness look gorgeous.
Score
Piano motifs that'll haunt your Spotify Wrapped.
Director
Michihito Fujii
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real diary of Aya Kito, who documented her decade with spinocerebellar degeneration before dying at 25.
The '10-year romance' trope is huge in Japanese media, but this film specifically rejects the 'dying girl teaches man to live' cliché by making Matsuri fully realized.
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