Inochi

{{more citations needed|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = Inochi | image = | screenplay = Sumio Ōmori | caption = Inochi | director = Shinohara Tetsuo | producer = Hidenori Iyoda<br>Junichi Shindo | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Esumi Makiko|Etsushi Toyokawa}} | music = | cinematography = | editing = | studio = | distributor = Toei Company | released = {{Film date|2002|9|14}} | runtime = 111 minutes | country = Japan | language = Japanese | budget = }}

{{Nihongo||命|'''''Inochi'''''|{{lit.}} "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.

==Plot summary==

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."

==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0335177|title=Inochi}}

Category:2002 films Category:2002 drama films Category:2002 Japanese-language films Category:Films directed by Tetsuo Shinohara Category:2002 Japanese films Category:Toei Company films