The 8-Year Engagement
8-nengoshi no hanayome
2017, Film, 119 min, Drama, Romance, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 68
Hisashi and Mai are a happy couple in their 20s who are engaged to be married. But three months before their wedding, Mai becomes seriously ill. Her heart stops momentarily, and she falls into a deep coma. Hisashi visits Mai at the hospital every day before work. With no idea if or when she will ever awake, Mai’s parents encourage Hisashi to find someone else, but he refuses to give up and continues to pray for her recovery. As if his prayers are answered, Mai begins to regain consciousness several years later, and even utters a few words. But tragically, she has suffered brain damage and has no memory of Hisashi.
Directed by Takahisa Zeze
Cast
- Takeru Satoh as Hisashi Nishizawa
- Tao Tsuchiya as Mai Nakahara
- Tetta Sugimoto as Koji Nakahara
- Hiroko Yakushimaru as Hatsumi Nakahara
- Kanji Furutachi as CEO of Somen Factory
- Kenta Hamano as Kosuke Murota
- Kasumi Hasegawa as Sakaguchi Yuri
- Keisuke Horibe as Doctor Wada
- Natsumi Ishibashi
- Risako Ito
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