Kawai Keisuke is a young man who aspired to become a physicist since he was young. His hopeful parents send him to an expensive college prep school, but at the age of 15, during his third year of junior high, he is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Told that he only has one year to live, he falls into despair, giving up on treatment and even lashing out against his own mother. Ultimately, with the support of his family, he struggles with the tumor for eight years before dying at the age of 23.
I seem to be on a roll with watching movie-length 'dramas' based on a tragic story of someone who dies way before his/her time. Anyway, because it's movie length, it doesn't go into great detail like 1 Litre of Tears did, but then again, I mainly watched it because Ryo was in it. :) The acting was pretty good and it does focus on what the family goes through. What made this stand out to me is how the main character actually got angry, threw some things around, and even got around to using physical violence to get his frustrations out instead of the [somewhat] docile acceptance of their fate that is present throughout the other tragic tales of a terminally ill teen.
I suppose because of that, it was more "real" - not that the others weren't but this one showed the denial stage of the whole process as well as the sinking acceptance that was more than just crying and asking the heart-breaking question of "why me?" Other than that though, it was similar to the other dramas of the same genre - but I still watched it for Ryo. ^_^
You can watch it here.
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