Dear friends

• Movie: Dear Friends
  
• Japanese: ディア フレンズ
  
• Director: Kazuyuki Morosawa
  
• Writer: Kazuyuki Morosawa, Uiko Miura
  
• Producer: Mitsuru Kawase
  
• Cinematographer:
  
• Release Date: February 3, 2007
  
• Runtime: 114 min
  
• Studio: Toei
  
• Distributor: Toei
  
• Language: Japanese
  
• Country: Japan
  

Dear Friends follows a high-school student named Rina (played by
Keiko Kitagawa) who believes that friends are not necessary and that
they can only be used in times of need. Thus, she is unable to maintain a
decent relationship with her friends and classmates. Her family's
relationship is also lacking; her father does not care much about his
family and her mother is over-protective.
Rina eventually discovers that she has a terminal illness and
becomes hospitalized for an indefinite amount of time. In the hospital,
she is not visited by her family, but by one of her classmates named
Maki (played by Yuika Motokariya). Although Maki tells Rina that they
were friends in primary school, Rina does not remember her, so Maki
takes the opportunity to re-connect with her. A young girl (played by
Mao Sasaki) who is also hospitalized tries to become friends with Rina,
but she holds fast onto her mantra of friends being unnecessary.
Throughout her hospitalization, Rina begins to lose hope as her
well-being falls apart, and she decides to jump off the hospital rooftop
as she feels that no one no longer cares about her. However, she is
stopped by Maki, who stabs herself in the chest with a knife and
declares that she will share the same pain as Rina and that she does not
want to lose her friend. Rina shows some hope again when she realizes
that she can find friendship in Maki.

Cast

• Masaya Kikawada - Yousuke
  
• Keiko Kitagawa - Rina
  
• Yuika Motokariya - Maki
  
• Masaki Nishina
  
• Naoko Otani
  
• Mantaro Koichi
  
• Airi Toriyama
  
• Mao Sasaki
  

Sursa: http://asianmediawiki.com/Dear_Friends

Parere: este o poveste foarte interesanta..mai ales ca nu ma asteptam ca deosebita Rina sa aiba cancer,si mai ales ca pana la urma devine asistenta medicala...l'am vazut acum mult timp in urma si inca ma emotioneaza aceasta poveste surprinzatoare de viata...