If Blessed

Poet Okachimachi Kaito makes his directing debut. Featuring lead actress Ono Machiko, who starred in The Mourning Forest (Mogari no Mori) and is also a regular in director Kawase Naomi's other works, this film portrays the pure love between a prisoner sentenced to death and the fiance of the man he killed, and was nominated to be in the section "Japanese Eyes" in the Tokyo International Film Festival. Jun (Kubota Masashi) receives the death penalty for a botched robbery that turned into murder and while in prison, he is visited by Kaoru (Ono), a Christian and the fiance of the man he killed. However, when her fiance was killed, he was secretly with another woman. Jun and Kaoru soon become attracted to one another and, using a bible, they start to communicate in secret.

Country:

Japan

Genre:

Romance,

Drama

Duration:

0 minutes

Year:

2010

Cast:
Machiko Ono

Kawahara Kaoru

Masashi Kubota

南木野 淳

Shirō Sano

Crew:
Yukiko Takayama

Writer

Yukiko Takayama

Screenplay