Journey of a Dying Wife
Journey of a Dying Wife

Journey of a Dying Wife

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1 hr 53 min

2011-02-26

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Why is it a crime for two people to be together? In the silence so profound that you could even hear the sound of falling snow, the man buried his wife alone. That was what his wife had wished for. When a loved one is dying, what can one do for them? 272 days, 6000 km—this is the true story of a couple's extraordinary love. December 2, 1999. A small article about the arrest of a man appeared on the social page of the newspaper. The charge was "abandonment resulting in death"—the crime of abandoning someone who needed assistance due to old age, childhood, physical disability, or illness, and causing their death. The man had been wandering around Japan for nine months with his wife, who had terminal cancer, in a van. In the fall of 2000, the monthly magazine "Shincho 45" published the memoir of the arrested man, Hisanori Shimizu, in two issues, which caused a great sensation.

Drama

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Characters

Tomokazu Miura

Tomokazu Miura

Shimizu Hisanori

Yuriko Ishida

Yuriko Ishida

Shimizu Hitomi

Aki Nishihara

Aki Nishihara

Saori

Baiken Jukkanji

Baiken Jukkanji

Hisanori's older brother

Reiko Tajima

Reiko Tajima

Hisanori's older sister

Fujio Tokita

Fujio Tokita

Old man traveling by bicycle

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