If Blessed (真幸くあらば) 14 years old

Poet Okachimachi Kaito makes his directing debut. Featuring lead actress Ono Machiko, who starred in The Mourning Forest (Mogari no Mori) and is also a regular in director Kawase Naomi's other works, this film portrays the pure love between a prisoner sentenced to death and the fiance of the man he killed, and was nominated to be in the section "Japanese Eyes" in the Tokyo International Film Festival. Jun (Kubota Masashi) receives the death penalty for a botched robbery that turned into murder and while in prison, he is visited by Kaoru (Ono), a Christian and the fiance of the man he killed. However, when her fiance was killed, he was secretly with another woman. Jun and Kaoru soon become attracted to one another and, using a bible, they start to communicate in secret.

Credits

If Blessed Cast

Name	Character
Machiko Ono She was 42, now 42 years old	as 榊原茜
Masashi Kubota He was 42, now 42 years old	as 南木野 淳

If Blessed Crew

Name	Department
Yukiko Takayama as Writer. She was 79 (now 79) years old	Writing