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Overview

User Rating:
6.4/10   249 votes
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Director:
Yôjirô Takita
Writers:
Keigo Higashino (novel)
Hiroshi Saitô (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
25 September 1999 (Japan) more
Genre:
Drama | Fantasy more
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Awards:
2 wins & 4 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Cherkis's spec one more in the Rudin & Miramax pipeline
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User Comments:
Bring your handkerchief and see it at least twice more (5 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
Ryoko Hirosue ... Monami Sugita / Naoko Sugita
Kaoru Kobayashi ... Heisuke Sugita
Ken Kaneko ... Fumio Kajikawa
Yuriko Ishida ... Taeko Hashimoto
Hideaki Ito ... Haruki Soma
Tomoe Shinohara ... Kuniko Kimura
Kayoko Kishimoto ... Naoko Sugita
Rie Shibata ... Kazuko Yoshimoto
Ren Ôsugi ... Hiroyuki Kajikawa
Hatsuo Yamaya ... Naoko Sugita
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kimihiro Reizei ... Tomio
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Directed by
Yôjirô Takita 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Keigo Higashino  novel
Hiroshi Saitô  writer

Produced by
Yasuhiro Mase .... executive producer
Jun'ichi Shindô .... producer
Setsuro Tagami .... producer
 
Original Music by
Ryudo Uzaki 
 
Cinematography by
Naoki Kayano 
 
Visual Effects by
Bernard Edlington .... shader artist
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Tatsuya Osada .... gaffer
 
Music Department
Mariya Takeuchi .... composer: theme music
 
Other crew
Mizuho Kudô .... script supervisor
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Secret (Hong Kong: English title)
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Runtime:
119 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Certification:
South Korea:15 | Hong Kong:IIB
Company:
Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) more

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Remade as Si j'étais toi (2007) more
Soundtrack:
WEDDING MARCH more

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12 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
Bring your handkerchief and see it at least twice, 25 September 1999
10/10
Author: itojun from Tokyo JAPAN

A traffic accident killed Heisuke (Kaoru Kobayashi)'s wife Naoko (Kayoko Kishimoto), while his highschool-student daughter Monami (Ryoko Hirosue) survived. Actually the survived was his wife's soul in his daughter's body... The story tells their twisted love and life.

The picture is very beautiful, delicate, and touching. It keeps me crying during the viewing. It was great for a guy-who-read-the-novel-already that the movie duplicates most of storylines, scenes and quotes from the novel it is based on. The scenes are just as I imagined. Ryoko Hirosue did it great as the daughter/wife-in-daughter double cast.

I recommend you to see it twice at least. On second viewing (after knowing the final twist) you can feel what Naoko felt in the film, and it will make you cry much more than the first viewing.

I voted 10/10.

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