Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (1000) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1000 · 605 mins · Japanese

Directed by

Yasuharu Ishii, Yuichiro Hirakawa

Starring

Takayuki Yamada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tasuku Emoto, Haruka Ayase, Kaho, Tomokazu Miura

Seventeen‑year‑old Sakutaro Matsumoto stands on Australia’s red earth, recalling a fleeting summer with Aki, whose beauty and their brief happiness feel timeless. Seventeen years later, now 34 and a graduate‑level medical researcher in Japan, he returns to his demolished high school, confronting the lingering grief of losing Aki to leukemia and realizing he has lived half‑alive without her.