Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World
S01E04: The Last Day
Overview
"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.
Episodes
S01E02 Delicate Distance
S01E03 Eternal Separation
S01E04 The Last Day
S01E05 Approaching Shadow
S01E06 The Journey to Live
S01E07 A Night with No Dawn
S01E08 Proposal
S01E09 Choice in the Last Moments of Life
S01E10 Please Save Me...
S01E11 Something With Shape
S01E12 Graduation After 17 Years
Cast
Takayuki Yamada
Matsumoto Sakutaro
Haruka Ayase
Hirose Aki
Naoto Ogata
Matsumoto Sakutaro (34 years)
Sachiko Sakurai
Kobayashi Aki
Kotaro Tanaka
Oki Ryunosuke
Tasuku Emoto
Nakagawa Akiyoshi
Yuika Motokariya
Ueda Tomoyo
Yuki Matsushita
Yatabe Toshimi
Katsumi Takahashi
Matsumoto Juichiro
Satoko Ôshima
Matsumoto Ayako
Kaho
Matsumoto Fumiko
Tatsuya Nakadai
Matsumoto Kentaro
