37 year old sales manager Iwatsu is so caught up in work, he's unable to truly live his life. One night while looking at his graduation album on his phone, he receives a sudden call from a girl named Kana. He's taken to his hometown Kobe, where he lived as a teenager. Slowly, by way of Kana, Iwatsu's past is resuscitated.
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Yasufumi Terawaki
Iwatsu
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Saki Terashima
Kana
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Yuya Matsushita
School-age Iwatsu
Known for
Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Rina Uchiyama
Teacher
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Good Luck!!
Musashi
Kurumi Shimizu
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Orange
The Kirishima Thing
Yui Ueda
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Yōka Kusano Director · Saeki Nejime Screenplay Kazuhiro Suzuki Cinematographer
First release February 21, 2009 · Produced in Japan · Production Office Regulus
Production
Voice & Heart
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Office Regulus
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Japan
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Original title
悲しいボーイフレンド
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · February 21, 2009
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