| 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 | |
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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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.