Inochi

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name = Inochi


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director = Shinohara Tetsuo
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starring = Esumi Makiko
Etsushi Toyokawa
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released = 2002
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language = Japanese
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imdb_id = 0335177

"Inochi" (命, lit. "life") is a 2002 Japanese movie directed by Shinohara Tetsuo starring Esumi Makiko and Etsushi Toyokawa. It is based on a memoir of the same title by the Korean-Japanese author Yu Miri.

Plot summary

Yu Miri (Esumi) is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka (Toyokawa), now struggling with terminal cancer, decides to help raise him, pledging to "live long enough to hear him say my name."

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*imdb title|id=0335177|title=Inochi