
Drawing Closer(2024)
With only a year left to live, 17-year-old Akito finds new meaning in life by bringing joy to a terminally ill girl who has just six months remaining.


Takuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting near. He chose to stay away from the girl that he loves so that she can easily move on. What he didn't know is that he is under-estimating her.

Mao Inoue
Mayu Taneda

Masaki Okada
Takuma Kakunouchi

Tetta Sugimoto
Minoru Kakinouchi

Yōko Moriguchi
Ryoko Kakinouchi

Yoshihiko Hosoda
Kou Suzuya

Natsuki Harada
Teru Uehara

Toru Nakamura
Dr. Takahito Taneda

Yuki Terada
Yuiko Tamura

Masataka Kubota
Ritsu Sugiyama

Keiko Horiuchi
Yoshimi Suzuya
I Give My First Love to You is a drama, romance film released in 2009. Directed by Takehiko Shinjo, it stars Mao Inoue, Masaki Okada, Tetta Sugimoto. Takuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting near. He chose to stay away from the girl that he loves so that she can easily move on. What he didn't know is that he is under-estimating her.
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