A Litre of Tears (2005)

Original title

1リットルの涙

Directed by

Riki Okamura

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl in junior high school learns she has a fatal and incurable disease that slowly paralyzes her body. With her mother's help, she writes a diary to share her experience and find meaning in her remaining time.

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What happens

A Litre of Tears (1リットルの涙, 1 Rittoru no Namida; literally "1 Litre of Tears") is a film based on Aya Kito (木藤亜也, Kitō Aya; July 19, 1962 – May 23, 1988)'s memoir, 1 Litre no Namida. Asae Ōnishi is the lead actress, starring as Aya Kito. 9th grader (third year of junior high school) Aya Kito collapses on the way to school. Dr. Yamamoto discovers that Aya has spinocerebellar ataxia, a fatal and incurable disease that handicaps the body. Aya's mother, Shioka Kito (木藤 潮香, Kitō Shioka) and Dr. Yamamoto let Aya record in a diary to tell her story and to live her life to the fullest. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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