I Give My First Love to You (2009)

Comedy / Drama / Romance • 122 minutes •  7.3/10

Starring: Mao Inoue Masaki Okada Tetta Sugimoto Yôko Moriguchi Natsuki Harada Keiko Horiuchi Yuki Terada Masataka Kubota and others.

Director: Takehiko Shinjo Screenplay: Kenji Bando Director of Photography: Masatoshi Takeyama Mitsuru Komiyama Producer: Fumihiro Hirai Hiroyasu Murakami Mika Nakamura Mitsuru Komiyama Naoto Hatakeyama Editor: Yoshifumi Fukazawa Original Music Composer: Yoshihiro Ike

Released • October 24, 2009

As a child Takuma is diagnosed with a heart condition that requires care from a cardiologist. He soon becomes friends with his doctors young daughter Mayu while being treated at the hospital. One day Mayu overhears her father saying that Takumas condition is serious enough that he most likely wont live beyond the age of 20. Takuma isn't aware of this himself, however, so at 8-years-old he makes a promise to marry Mayu when they turn 20. Later in life, Takuma becomes aware that he wont be able to keep this promise and he begins distancing himself from Mayu in hopes of protecting her.