# Inochi

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{{Infobox film
| name           = Inochi
| image          =
| screenplay     = Sumio Ōmori
| caption        = Inochi
| director       = [Shinohara Tetsuo](/source/Shinohara_Tetsuo)
| producer       = Hidenori Iyoda<br>Junichi Shindo
| narrator       =
| starring       = {{ubl|[Esumi Makiko](/source/Esumi_Makiko)|[Etsushi Toyokawa](/source/Etsushi_Toyokawa)}}
| music          =
| cinematography =
| editing        =
| studio         = 
| distributor    = [Toei Company](/source/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](/source/Cinema_of_Japan) [directed](/source/Film_director) by [Shinohara Tetsuo](/source/Shinohara_Tetsuo) starring [Esumi Makiko](/source/Esumi_Makiko) and [Etsushi Toyokawa](/source/Etsushi_Toyokawa). It is based on a memoir of the same title by the Korean-Japanese author [Yu Miri](/source/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](/source/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}}

{{Tetsuo Shinohara}}

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

{{2000s-Japan-film-stub}}

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