Akai Ito (2008)

Original title

赤い糸

Directed by

Shōsuke Murakami

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 46m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two people are connected by a red thread of fate from childhood. They face challenges and heartbreak as they grow up and try to find each other.

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What happens

Threads of Destiny (Japanese: 赤い糸, Hepburn: Akai Ito; lit. "Red Thread") is a 2006 cell phone novel series written by Mei. Akai Ito was first published on the website Mahō no Toshōkan, where it became the #1 ranked story within the first month of publication. The popularity of Akai Ito has been associated with the boom of cell phone novels in the mid-2000s in Japan. The novel was later published as a series of five books, which sold a consecutive total of 1.8 million physical copies. The success of Akai Ito has led to a manga adaptation by Cocco Kashiwaya, a television and film project released under the title Threads of Destiny, and two video game adaptations. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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