| DIRECTOR: |
Kei Kumai |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Kei Kumai |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Masao Tochizawa |
| EDITION: |
Osamu Inoue |
| MUSIC: |
Teizo Matsumura |
| CATS: |
Miki Sakai, Atsuro Watabe,
Kyoko Kishida, Keiju Kobayashi |
| PRODUCER: |
Tomozo Yamaguchi |
| PRODUCTION: |
Nikkatsu Corp. |
| WORLD SALES: |
Nikkatsu Corp. |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
To Love |
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Col. , 114 min. ,
1997 |
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Born in 1930, Kei Kumai graduated in literature in Matsumoto. In 1964, he made his
first film, Teigin Case, having worked as assistant director to Yutaka Abe and Seiji
Hisamatsu. As from then, he has kept up an intense output with films such as The Long
Darkness, An Ocean to Cross, Luminous Moss, and Deep River.
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A moving drama
inspired in the novel The Woman I abandoned by Shusaku Endo that tells the story of a girl
who, on discovering she has leprosy, is looking for a reason to live. After spending a
long time confined in a sanatorium, they can see the diagnosis was wrong. Even so, she
decides to stay on and help those with whom she lived during her suffering. With her
sincere attitude and kindness, the persons around her rediscover the happiness of love and
the pleasure of living.In a moving report, the film broaches the difficulties and the
discrimination faced by persons diagnosed as having leprosy. And it shows that in spite of
the law for leprosy prevention - that obliged confining persons with the disease - and
abolished in 1996, the past of thousands of victims that suffered restrictions that
ignored human rights cannot be forgotten.Even after the abolition of the law,
discrimination and prejudice are still firmly established in modern society. And it is
this that this touching drama denounces.