Dearest

Dearest

111 mins | Drama | Aug. 25, 2012

A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. Eiji (Ken Takakura) works as a prison officer in Hokuriku. At the age of 53 Eiji loses his wife who he loved the most. Eiji then receives a letter from his dead wife which requests that her ashes be spread by in the sea next to her hometown. Her wife never mentioned such a thing while she was alive. In order to find out her real intentions, Eiji heads to his wife's hometown of Nagasaki with his homemade camper van.

Dearest

111 mins | Drama | Aug. 25, 2012

Dearest
A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. Eiji (Ken Takakura) works as a prison officer in Hokuriku. At the age of 53 Eiji loses his wife who he loved the most. Eiji then receives a letter from his dead wife which requests that her ashes be spread by in the sea next to her hometown. Her wife never mentioned such a thing while she was alive. In order to find out her real intentions, Eiji heads to his wife's hometown of Nagasaki with his homemade camper van.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Toho Pictures, Inc.
Original title あなたへ
Directors Yasuo Furuhata
Writers Takeshi Aoshima

Cast

Ken Takakura

as Eiji Shimakura

Yūko Tanaka

as Yoko Shimakura

Koichi Sato

as Nanbara

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

as Yûji Tamiya

Kimiko Yo

as Tamiko Hamasaki

Haruka Ayase

as Naoko Hamasaki

Takeshi Kitano

as Teruo Sugino

Tadanobu Asano

as Policeman

Mieko Harada

as Kumiko Tsukamoto

Kyôzô Nagatsuka

as Kazuo Tsukamoto

Hideji Ôtaki

as Gorô Ôura

Takahiro Miura

as Takuya Ôura