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1778 Stories of Me & My Wife (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region 3

Kusanagi Tsuyoshi (Actor) | Takeuchi Yuko (Actor) | Tanihara Shosuke (Actor) | Kichise Michiko (Actor)
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1778 Stories of Me & My Wife (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version)

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Loosely based on the autobiographical novel by sci-fi writer Mayumura Taku, 1,778 Stories of Me and My Wife is an emotionally touching drama about a man's determination to keep his wife alive. SMAP's Kusanagi Tsuyoshi (Ballad) plays a writer who, at the suggestion of a doctor, keeps his terminally ill wife (Takeuchi Yuko) alive with him by writing one short story a day to make her laugh. Written by Hanzawa Ritsuko (Threads of Destiny) and directed by Hoshi Mamoru (University of Laughs), this adult-oriented pure romance effectively gets the tears flowing while also dazzling the audiences by bringing the imaginative sci-fi short stories to life.

Writer Sakutaro (Kusanagi Tsuyoshi) and his wife Setsuko (Takeuchi Yuko) have been inseparable since high school. When Setsuko starts getting stomach pains, she sees a doctor and is diagnosed with colon cancer. The doctor tells Sakutaro that laughter can help the immune system, prompting him to begin writing one short story a day for Setsuko. Initially only given a year left to live, Setsuko begins to find a will to live because of the stories. Even as the one-year period extends into years, Sakutaro continues writing stories on a daily basis, as long as Setsuko is around to read them.

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Product Title: 1778 Stories of Me & My Wife (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version) 我與妻子的 1778 個故事 (DVD) (香港版) 我与妻子的 1778 个故事 (DVD) (香港版) 僕と妻の１７７８の物語 1778 Stories of Me & My Wife (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version)
Also known as: 1778 Stories of Me And My Wife 1778 Stories of Me And My Wife 1778 Stories of Me And My Wife 1778 Stories of Me And My Wife 1778 Stories of Me And My Wife
Artist Name(s): Kusanagi Tsuyoshi (Actor) | Takeuchi Yuko (Actor) | Tanihara Shosuke (Actor) | Kichise Michiko (Actor) 草彅剛 (Actor) | 竹內結子 (Actor) | 谷原章介 (Actor) | 吉瀨美智子 (Actor) 草彅刚 (Actor) | 竹内结子 (Actor) | 谷原章介 (Actor) | 吉濑美智子 (Actor) 草なぎ剛 (Actor) | 竹内結子 (Actor) | 谷原章介 (Actor) | 吉瀬美智子 (Actor) 초난강 (Actor) | Takeuchi Yuko (Actor) | Tanihara Shosuke (Actor) | Kichise Michiko (Actor)
Director: Hoshi Mamoru 星護 星护 星護 Hoshi Mamoru
Release Date: 2011-08-09
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
Country of Origin: Japan
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1
Widescreen Anamorphic: Yes
Sound Information: Dolby Digital 2.0, LPCM
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Duration: 140 (mins)
Publisher: Intercontinental Video (HK)
Package Weight: 120 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1024728023

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Director: Hoshi Mamoru

Based on the heart-rending true story of a sci-fi writer Taku Mayumura and his wife. After Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) learns that his wife Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) has colon cancer, he takes the advice from his doctor that laughter could strengthen her immune system. Sakutaro then decides to write a shour story for his wife every day. At first, Setsuko was expected to live for only one more year, but she went on to live for five good years with the help of the 1,778 stories in total written by her husband for her over that time.
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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10 (1)

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November 7, 2011
Warm-hearted weeper Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
"Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom," wrote the Psalmist (Ps. 90:12), and that simple theme lies at the heart of "1,778 Stories of Me & My Wife." Former high school sweethearts Sakutaro (Kusanagi Tsuyoshi) and Setsuko (Takeuchi Yuko) truly are a happily married couple, perfectly content with their simple lives together, he working as an obscure science fiction writer and she as an office worker. When Setsuko experiences stomach pains, her neighbor suggests that Setsuko may be pregnant, but a visit to her doctor's office reveals a much more fateful cause. Setsuko has terminal colon cancer. The doctor tells Sakutaro that his wife likely only has a year to live and, even with treatments, will have no more than five years.

With this heartbreaking news, Sakutaro undertakes to write his wife one humorous short story each day, with the hope that laughter may strengthen Setsuko's immune system and lengthen her life. As she lives past one year, Sakutaro begins to hope that he may be able to prolong Setsuko's life indefinitely through the charm of his stories and he pours his heart into them. As he writes, we become immersed in the delightfully quirky fantasy tales he writes. Of course, the very title of this movie gives away the fact that Sakutaro's hope will not be realized.

Setsuko's advancing illness inevitably leads to pain medication that leaves her asleep almost all of the time. This presents a challenge to the film, one that it fails to overcome; the movie still has a full forty minutes left to run, but it is deprived of Takeuchi Yuko's irresistible charm. We are left with Kusanagi Tsuyoshi depiction of Sakutaro's growing anguish at the imminence of his dear wife's death. Kusanagi vividly brings this anguish to life, but forty minutes of tears may be a bit overlong.

Fortunately, "1,778 Stories of Me & My Wife" mostly steers clear of mawkishness through its focus on treasuring the time we have rather than mourning what we can't keep. Kusanagi Tsuyoshi brings a nuanced approach to navigating Sakutaro's grief process and Takeuchi Yuko creates a brave character of appealing warmth. Keep a handkerchief or two handy when watching this film; evened the most hardened of souls will be crying 1,778 or so tears.
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