It was interesting, I think I have missed out on Kei-chan's earlier work, I mean she was more fierce and angry back then ^^
This movie too brings up an interesting topic about how life can become, hardships and friendship.
It is adapted from the manga "Dear Friends" by YOSHI, and art by Watanabe Ayu.
★★
Title: ディアフレンズ (Dear Friends)
Release dates: February 3, 2007
Running time: 115 min.
Story
Dear Friends follows a high-school student named Rina who believes that friends are not necessary and that they can only be used in times of need. Thus, she is unable to maintain a decent relationship with her friends and classmates. Her family's relationship is also lacking; her father does not care much about his family and her mother is over-protective.
Rina spends a lot of her time going to a club in Shibuya where Yousuke is the disc jockey with her friends Hiroko and Emi. Yousuke falls for Rina, but her attitude has a feral edge, and they neck but stop short of having sex.
After obtaining a large amount of money under false pretenses (i.e. claiming she is pregnant when she is not and forcing the guy [not Hiroko's boyfriend or Yousuke] to pay for the abortion) and spending it on a bottle of Dom Pérignon (which she sprays over everyone at the club), Rina collapses on the dance floor. She eventually discovers that she has cancer (non-Hodgkin lymphoma) and becomes hospitalized for an indefinite amount of time. In the hospital, she is not visited by her family, but by one of her classmates named Maki. Although Maki tells Rina that they were friends in primary school, Rina does not remember her, so Maki takes the opportunity to re-connect with her. A young girl, Kanae, who is also hospitalized tries to become friends with Rina, but she holds fast onto her mantra of friends being unnecessary.
Throughout her hospitalization, Rina begins to lose hope as her well-being falls apart...
Cast
Keiko Kitagawa as Rina
Yuika Motokariya as Maki
Airi Toriyama as Hiroko
Hatsune Matsushima as Emi
Masaya Kikawada as Yousuke
Mao Sasaki as Kanae
Avery Fane as Club DJ
Naoko Otani as Rina's Mother
Ren Osugi as Rina's Father
Info @ wiki
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