Farewell for Today

Farewell for Today

109 mins | Aug. 24, 2013

Kouta Fujioka is a 29-year old man who has a good family, including his father who always supports him, his mother who enjoys cooking, and his older sister with her bright personality. He also has a girlfriend named Etsuko Tanebe. Kouta wants people to eat delicious foods made by him and begins a job as an apprentice chef at a restaurant. One day, Kouta suddenly passes out and is sent to the hospital, where he is diagnosed with malignant lymphoma, completely changing his life. Given three months left to live, Kouta makes up his mind, with the support of his family and those he meets at the hospital, to accept his fate and "face a proper death".

Farewell for Today

109 mins | Aug. 24, 2013

Farewell for Today
Kouta Fujioka is a 29-year old man who has a good family, including his father who always supports him, his mother who enjoys cooking, and his older sister with her bright personality. He also has a girlfriend named Etsuko Tanebe. Kouta wants people to eat delicious foods made by him and begins a job as an apprentice chef at a restaurant. One day, Kouta suddenly passes out and is sent to the hospital, where he is diagnosed with malignant lymphoma, completely changing his life. Given three months left to live, Kouta makes up his mind, with the support of his family and those he meets at the hospital, to accept his fate and "face a proper death".
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Nippon Television Network Corporation
Original title 今日の日はさようなら
Directors
Writers Kazuya Miyuki, Atsuko Hashibe

Cast

Satoshi Ohno

as Kouta Fujioka

Ryosuke Yamada

as Nobuo Harada

Kyoko Fukada

as Yuriko Ookubo

Fumino Kimura

as Etsuko Tanabe

Mimura

as Koharu Fujioka

Kayoko Kishimoto

as Yasuko Fujioka

Tomokazu Miura

as Kenjiro Fujioka

Kyūsaku Shimada

as Hiroki Murayama

Ken Mitsuishi

as Tetsuo Machida

Morio Agata

as Kokyuu

Akari Iijima

as Koharu Fujioka (child)

Kotoha Takashima

as Tsubasa