Be With You (いま、会いにゆきます, Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu, 2004), is a Japanese drama, directed by Nobuhiro Doi. It was adapted by Yoshikazu Okada from a novel of Takuji Ichikawa.
Mio Aio's death leaves her husband Takumi and six year-old son Yuji to fend for themselves. Takumi is congenitally disorganized, suffers occasional fainting spells, and fears that his health compromised his dead wife's happiness. Yuji overhears relatives speculate that his own diffi...
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Be With You (いま、会いにゆきます, Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu, 2004), is a Japanese drama, directed by Nobuhiro Doi. It was adapted by Yoshikazu Okada from a novel of Takuji Ichikawa.
Mio Aio's death leaves her husband Takumi and six year-old son Yuji to fend for themselves. Takumi is congenitally disorganized, suffers occasional fainting spells, and fears that his health compromised his dead wife's happiness. Yuji overhears relatives speculate that his own difficult delivery compromised Mio's health, and blames himself for his mother's death. Mio had left Yuji a picture book; in the book, Mio departs for a celestial body she calls "the Archive Star" but reappears in Japan during the following year's rainy season; turning the pages, Yuji eagerly awaits her return.
On a walk in the forest outside their house, Takumi and Yuji find a woman sheltered from the rain, and immediately accept her as Mio. She has no memory or sense of identity; she comes home to live with the father and son anyway. This new Mio...
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