April Bride

2009 Japanese film
  • May 9, 2009 (2009-05-09)
Running time
129 minutesCountryJapanLanguageJapaneseBox office$32,112,343[1]

April Bride (余命1ヶ月の花嫁, Yomei Ikkagetsu no Hanayome) is a 2009 Japanese biographical romantic drama film directed by Ryūichi Hiroki.

Plot

On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live.

Cast

  • Nana Eikura: Chie Nagashima
  • Eita: Taro Akasu
  • Satomi Tezuka
  • Misako Yasuda
  • Akira Emoto

Notes

  • Based on the true story of Chie Nagashima, a woman afflicted with breast cancer and her husband Taro Akasu.
  • Chie Nagashima's story was also told in a 2007 TBS documentary.

Reception

April Bride was number one in the box office in its opening weekend.[2] Mark Schilling of The Japan Times gave the film a mostly positive review.[3]

References

  1. ^ "April Bride".
  2. ^ Jason Gray (May 12, 2009). "April Bride weds the top spot at Japanese box office". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 16 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
  3. ^ Mark Schilling (May 8, 2009). "A weepy aimed straight at women". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2009-06-01.

External links

  • Official website (in Japanese)
  • April Bride at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • April Bride at Variety Japan
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Films directed by Ryūichi Hiroki
  • 800 Two Lap Runners (1994)
  • Vibrator (2003)
  • Kikansha Sensei (2004)
  • Female (2005)
  • It's Only Talk (2005)
  • April Bride (2009)
  • River (2011)
  • Kiiroi Zou (2013)
  • Crying 100 Times: Every Raindrop Falls (2014)
  • Kabukicho Love Hotel (2014)
  • Her Granddaughter (2014)
  • Ride or Die (2021)
  • Noise (2022)


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