love greeto's blog: ハナミズキ Hanamizuki -May your love bloom a hundred year-

PROFILE

Movie: Hanamizuki -May your love bloom a hundred year-
Romaji: Hanamizuki
Japanese: ハナミズキ
Director: Nobuhiro Doi
Writer: Noriko Yoshida
Producer: Yasuo Yagi, Kazuya Hamana, Jun Nasuda
Cinematographer: Yasushi Sasakibara
Release Date: August 21, 2010
Runtime: 128 min.
Production Company: Toho, TBS
Distributor: Toho
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

Sae (Yui Aragaki) is a high school student who is studying hard for her college entrance exams. She lost her father when she was very young and so lives her mother Ryoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru) in Hokkaido, Japan. Her father Kemimichi (Arata) once planted a dogwood tree in their garden after he found out he had a terminal disease and could not watch Sae grow up. She hopes to enter a university in Tokyo.

She then meets Kouhei (Toma Ikuta), who attends a specialized high school teaching fishery. He hopes to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as a fisherman. These two young people meet and have a long distance relationship. Althoug

h their love is strong it does not last.

10 years later these two people have a miracle ...

Notes

Film is based on a 2004 pop song by You Hitoto titled "Hanamizuki".
Filming has taken place already in Hokkaido, Japan. Shooting will then move to New York and Canada early 2010.
"Yui Aragaki" will play Sae as a teenager all the way up to a 28 year career woman. This will be the first time that Yui Aragaki portrays an adult character.
"Yui Aragaki" will perform some of her lines in English and therefore she is studying English to prepare for her lines.