* Movie: Hanamizuki -May your love bloom a hundred year-
* Romaji: Hanamizuki
* Japanese: ハナミズキ
* Director: Nobuhiro Doi
* Writer: Noriko Yoshida
* Producer: Yasuo Yagi, Kazuya Hamana, Jun Nasuda
* Cinematographer: Yasushi Sasakibara
* Release Date: August 21, 2010
* Runtime: 128 min.
* Production Company: Toho, TBS
* Distributor: Toho
* Language: Japanese
* Country: Japan
Plot
Sae (Yui Aragaki) is a high school student who is studying hard for her college entrance exams. She lost her father when she was very young and so lives her mother Ryoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru) in Hokkaido, Japan. Her father Kemimichi (Arata) once planted a dogwood tree in their garden after he found out he had a terminal disease and could not watch Sae grow up. She hopes to enter a university in Tokyo.
She then meets Kouhei (Toma Ikuta), who attends a specialized high school teaching fishery. He hopes to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as a fisherman. These two young people meet and have a long distance relationship. Although their love is strong it does not last.
10 years later these two people have a miracle ...
Notes
1. Film is based on a 2004 pop song by You Hitoto titled "Hanamizuki".
2. Filming has taken place already in Hokkaido, Japan. Shooting will then move to New York and Canada early 2010.
3. "Yui Aragaki" will play Sae as a teenager all the way up to a 28 year career woman. This will be the first time that Yui Aragaki portrays an adult character.
4. "Yui Aragaki" will perform some of her lines in English and therefore she is studying English to prepare for her lines.
Cast
aragaki yui as hirasawa sae
ikuta toma as kiuchi kouhei
mukai osamu as kitami junichi
yakushimaru hiroko as hirasawa ryoko
renbutsu misako as wanatabe ritsuko
arata as hirasawa kimichi
kimura yuchi as endo makoto
Additional Cast Members:
*Yutaka Matsushige
* Eri Tokunaga
* Yuta Kanai
* Yu Koyanagi
* Tsutomu Takahashi
* Mamatsu Hayashi
* Kaori Mizushima
