7.4 /10 1 Votes
3.4/5 AlloCine Produced by Hideyuki Honma Music by Suguru Matsutani Initial release 30 October 2004 (Japan) Featured song Hana Music director Suguru Matsutani | 8/10 IMDb Directed by Nobuhiro Doi Written by Yoshikazu Okada Cinematography Takahide Shibanushi Director Nobuhiro Doi Story by Takuji Ichikawa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Yūko Takeuchi
Shido Nakamura Cast Yūko Takeuchi, Nakamura Shidō II, Akashi Takei, Karen Miyama, Yūta Hiraoka Similar Heavenly Forest, Midnight Sun, Nada Sōsō, Coicent, Chō Gekijōban Keroro G | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Be With You (いま、会いにゆきます, Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu), is a 2004 Japanese drama film based on a Japanese novel of the same name written by Takuji Ichikawa. The film was adapted from the novel by Yoshikazu Okada, and it was directed by Nobuhiro Doi. It stars actress Yūko Takeuchi as Mio Aio and actor Shido Nakamura as Takumi Aio.
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Be With You was first released at the 17th Tokyo International Film Festival. It was subsequently released in Japanese cinemas on 30 October 2004. The film grossed a total of $46,616,207 from its screenings in Japan and overseas countries.
Ima ai ni yukimasu be with you trailer
Plot
Mio Aio's death leaves her husband Takumi and six-year-old son Yuji to fend for themselves. Takumi is congenitally disorganized, suffers occasional fainting spells, and fears that his health compromised his dead wife's happiness. Yuji overhears relatives speculate that his own difficult delivery compromised Mio's health, and blames himself for his mother's death. Mio had left Yuji a picture book; in the book, Mio departs for a celestial body she calls "the Archive Star" but reappears in Japan during the following year's rainy season; turning the pages, Yuji eagerly awaits her return.
On a walk in the forest outside their house, Takumi and Yuji find a woman sheltered from the rain, and immediately accept her as Mio. She has no memory or sense of identity; she comes home to live with the father and son anyway. This new Mio asks Taku how they met and fell in love, and he recounts a tale of years of missed chances, beginning in high school and ending when she encouraged their marriage years later. As the rainy season draws to a close, Yuji discovers the "time capsule" he hid with his mother before her death. Mio's diary is inside, and its version of the Mio-Taku romance holds the answers to the mystery.
Cast
Release
Be With You was showcased at the 17th Tokyo International Film Festival on 27 October 2004. It was featured as one of the festival's special screenings. The singers for the theme song, Orange Range, also held a performance of the theme song at the showcase.
Theme song
Okinawan alternative rock band Orange Range sang the theme song of this movie called Hana. It was the top selling single of 2005.