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Tengoku de kimi ni aetara (2009)

Tengoku de kimi ni aetara poster
Original title
天国で君に逢えたら
Directed by
Nobuhiro Doi
Genre
drama film
Country
Japan
Runtime
2h
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A psychiatrist in a seaside town helps cancer patients write final letters to their loved ones. The film follows him as he takes on this role for multiple patients, conveying their last thoughts and feelings.

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What happens

Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara è un film televisivo del 2009 diretto da Nobuhiro Doi e tratto dal romanzo di Natsuki Iijima. In una città di mare, Junichi Nonoue lavora come psichiatra che fornisce consulenza ai malati di cancro. Junichi riceve la richiesta, da uno dei suoi pazienti, di scrivere una lettera e, a partire da quel momento, comincia a scrivere lettere per altri pazienti nelle quali esse trasmettono i loro ultimi pensieri ai propri cari. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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