1,778 Stories of Me and My Wife

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Movie: 1,778 Stories of Me and My Wife
Romaji: Boku to tsuma no 1778 no monogatari
Japanese: 僕と妻の１７７８の物語
Director: Mamoru Hoshi
Writer: Taku Mayumura (novel), Ritsuko Hanzawa
Producer:
Cinematographer:
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Runtime: 139min.
Production Company: Toho
Distributor: Toho
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

Sci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as high school freshmen during their summer vacation. Since that time, the couple has always been together and eventually married.

One day, Setsuko complains of a stomach ache and is hospitalized. Sakutaro then learns that his wife has colon cancer. Sakutaro takes the advice from his doctor that laughter helps the immune system and proceeds to write a short story for his wife every day. At first, Setsuko was expected to live for only 1 more year, but she lived for 5 more years and Sakutaro eventually wrote 1,778 short stories for his wife.

Notes

Based on the true story of sci-fi writer Taku Mayumura.

Cast



Tsuyoshi Kusanagi	Yuko Takeuchi
Sakutaro	Setsuko



Ren Osugi	Shosuke Tanihara	Michiko Kichise	Tai Kageyama	Jun Fubuki
Setsuko's doctor	Takizawa	Takizawa's wife	Nimi	Setsuko's mom

Additional Cast Members:

Yasuto Kosuda - newspaper bill collector
Kazuyuki Asano
Sumie Sasaki - neighbor

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Comment #1
planey Says:
Aug 22 2011 3:29 am

/le crying

Sakutaro is so amazing, he's imagination and pesonality
'sob 'sob
/still crying because of the wonderful movie