"life") is a 2002 Japanese movie directed by Shinohara Tetsuo starring Esumi Makiko and Etsushi Toyokawa.
It is based on a memoir of the same title by the Korean-Japanese author Yu Miri.
Yu Miri (Esumi) is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover.
When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka (Toyokawa), now struggling with terminal cancer, decides to help raise him, pledging to "live long enough to hear him say my name."
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