Calling for Love in the Center of the World is a pure love drama film based on the novel of the same name by Japanese novelist Kyouichi Katayama, which premiered on May 8, 2004. The film was written by Yuzi Sakamoto, Isao Yukisada, Kyouichi Katayama and Chihiro It?, directed by Isao Yukisada, and starring Takao Osawa, Kou Shibasaki, Masami Nagasawa, Moriyama Future, Yamazaki Nu, Miyato Koro, Tsuda Hiroshi, Takahashi Yisheng, Kanno Liyang, Sugimoto Tetsuya and Tianhai Youxi. The film tells the story of Sataro, the hero, going to four countries to find a way to find his fiancee who suddenly disappeared. There, he couldn't help thinking of his first love, Ji Ya, where they met. Memories of those first loves and the past events about Walkman come to mind at this moment. ?
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My grandfather fell in love with a girl with tuberculosis when he was young. Because tuberculosis was almost incurable at that time, grandpa ran from his hometown to Tokyo to make money desperately in order to marry her and feed her. When he earned money and returned to his hometown, the girl's illness was cured because of the discovery of streptomycin. The cure of the disease means that you can get married. But the other parents don't want to marry their daughter to a grandfather who does "messy business" and marry a "filial person". Grandpa got married soon.
Fifty years later, grandpa took his grandson to rob the tomb, stole a little ashes from his relatives and gave them to his grandson in a small paulownia box. He told his grandson that after his death, he "mixed almost the same amount of my ashes with this man's ashes" and scattered them on the hillside with his favorite viola. At this time, the grandson fell in love with a beautiful girl named Ji Ya. She studied well and had a good personality.
Unexpectedly, after the second century, leukemia came. Although "I" prayed to God every night and would rather suffer for Ji Ya's recovery, Ji Ya was reduced to ashes in the desolate valley-"There was silence all around, and there was no smell of people and birds. Listen carefully, there is a faint sound of boiler burning from Gia ... I am watching the smoke burning my favorite person in this world quietly rise into the winter sky. " So all that's left is Ji Ya's ashes. "I" and Ji Ya's parents flew to Australia and scattered the ashes on the light brown grassland that Ji Ya longed for before his death. But I didn't sprinkle it all, but I left some in a small transparent glass bottle to take back. Finally, "I" came to the campus cherry tree where Ji Ya and I studied together. "White ashes fly into the night sky like snowflakes. Another gust of wind blew, and the cherry petals fell gently. " Ji Ya's ashes melted in the petals and suddenly disappeared. "