Dearest
A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife’s death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. Eiji (Ken Takakura) works as a prison officer in Hokuriku. At the age of 53 Eiji loses his wife who he loved the most. Eiji then receives a letter from his dead wife which requests that her ashes be spread by in the sea next to her hometown. Her wife never mentioned such a thing while she was alive. In order to find out her real intentions, Eiji heads to his wife’s hometown of Nagasaki with his homemade camper van.
Genre: Drama
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
Actors: Haruka Ayase, Ken Takakura, Kimiko Yo, Koichi Sato, Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Mieko Harada, Tadanobu Asano, Takeshi Kitano, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Yūko Tanaka