Watched this jap movie "Crying out Love in the Centre of the World" just now..

Plot summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates_in_Love
In a small regional town in 1980s southern Japan, Sakutaro "Saku" Matsumoto and Aki Hirose, who were classmates all through junior high school, become high school students and then fall in love with one another. They share audio diaries, go on excursions together, and enjoy summer vacation. However, Aki soon finds herself suffering from leukemia and begins to weaken day by day, rendering her unable to see Saku or go outside. Saku, desperate to take Aki to Uluru (Ayer's Rock) in Australia (the "Center of the World" in the Japanese title), a place she had wished to go to, desperately tries to achieve just that. Aki dies before ever boarding the plane, and Saku is left to live out his life without her.
17 years later, as an older, sombre Saku trudges through everyday existence, the last tape of Aki's audio diary is suddenly unearthed, leading Saku back to his hometown in the south, and back into his memories of his last days with Aki.

I love the way of how they communicate with each other, by recording over tapes of what they wanna tell each other..the mode of communication is very simple yet significant. and somehow or rather it just brings back memories of how dennis n i used to communicate when both of us were in junior college and we were not allowed to meet for a period of time due to some obstruction in the beginning of our relationship. of course, not through tapes, but through emails..writing about daily stuff and encouraging each other to study hard for our 'A' levels over the emails. n till now, i still do keep those emails...juz like how Saku still keeps the cassette tapes.

hmm..dun worry..i'm not crying anymore now, i have told myself before. but ok, i cried a little over the movie.. haa..cos it's really very touching..especially the last part when Saku listens to the tape last recorded by Aki.

Definitely touching movie, though the young Saku played by the young actor is not very good-looking.. =p

Plot is pretty simple and the way of presenting the story is smooth, simple and clear.