Inochi

2002 Japanese film
  • Esumi Makiko
  • Etsushi Toyokawa
Release date
  • 2002 (2002)
CountryJapanLanguageJapanese

Inochi (, lit. "life") is a 2002 Japanese movie directed by Shinohara Tetsuo starring Esumi Makiko and Etsushi Toyokawa. It is based on a memoir of the same title by the Korean-Japanese author Yu Miri.

Plot summary

Yu Miri (Esumi) is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka (Toyokawa), now struggling with terminal cancer, decides to help raise him, pledging to "live long enough to hear him say my name."

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Films directed by Tetsuo Shinohara
  • First Love (2000)
  • Inochi (2002)
  • Heaven's Bookstore (2004)
  • Female (2005)
  • Ogawa no Hotori (2011)
  • Kishūteneki Terminal (2015)
  • Flower and Sword (2017)


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