Hanamizuki (ハナミズキ) 13 years old

Sae (Yui Aragaki) is a high school student who is studying hard for her college entrance exams. She lost her father when she was very young and so lives with her mother Ryoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru) in Hokkaido, Japan. Her father Kemimichi (Arata) once planted a dogwood tree in their garden after he found out he had a terminal disease and could not watch Sae grow up. She hopes to enter a university in Tokyo. She then meets Kouhei (Toma Ikuta), who attends a specialized high school teaching fishery. He hopes to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as a fisherman. These two young people meet and have a long distance relationship. Although their love is strong it does not last. 10 years later these two people have a miracle ...

Credits

Yui Aragaki as Sae Hirasawa

Toma Ikuta as Kouhei Kiuchi

Osamu Mukai as Junichi Kitami

Hiroko Yakushimaru as Ryoko

Misako Renbutsu as Ritsuko Watanabe

Yuichi Kimura as Makato Endo

Hanamizuki Cast

Name	Character
Yui Aragaki She was 22, now 35 years old	as Sae Hirasawa
Toma Ikuta He was 25, now 39 years old	as Kouhei Kiuchi
Osamu Mukai He was 28, now 42 years old	as Junichi Kitami
Hiroko Yakushimaru She was 46, now 59 years old	as Ryoko
Misako Renbutsu She was 19, now 33 years old	as Ritsuko Watanabe
Yuichi Kimura He was 47, now 61 years old	as Makato Endo
Eri Tokunaga She was 48, now 62 years old	as Minami Nakamura

Hanamizuki Crew

Name	Department
Nobuhiro Doi as Director. He was 46 (now 60) years old	Directing
Noriko Yoshida as Writer. She was 50 (now 64) years old	Writing

Hanamizuki (13 years)

Release day: Monday, June 21, 2010
Runtime: 128 minutes