River of First Love (2004)

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Country: Japan
Genres: Drama
Release: 2004-11-13
Director: Itsumichi Isomura
Writers: Kenichi Kawakam , Hirotoshi Kobayashi , Hiroyo Zento
Language: Japanese
Stars: Hiroshi Tamaki , Haruka Ayase , Shunsuke Matsuoka , Hiroshi Abe , Miki Nakatani , Akira Emoto , Ayumi Ito , Yuriko Hoshi , Mirai Shida , Kenta Suga
Runtime: 113 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Amemasu no kawa , 雨鱒の川ファーストラブ (Japan) , River of First Love , 雨鱒の川 (Japan)
Plot: 8-year old boy, Shinpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, on her own. Shinpei's childhood sweetheart, Sayuri, is deaf, but somehow they can understand each other and they always spend time together. One day, big news comes to their town: Shinpei's picture received the Grand Prize in a Children's Pictures Exhibition in Paris. On the night that Sayuri's father, Takakura, holds a celebration party for Shinpei, Satsuki leaves her son in Takakura's care and goes out of the house. Feeling uneasy, Shimpei goes to look for her but finds his mother dead, lying calmly and peacefully in the beautiful, white snow...Fast forward to the future, Shinpei has been offered a fake job in Tokyo. Sayuri's father arranged everything so that Shinpei would not interfere with Sayuri's marriage.
IMDB:tt0396445