License to Live

Jan 23, 1999

1h 49m

★ 6.1

Am I dreaming? Did I really exist?

Overview

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Daiei Film

License to Live Trailers

Cast

Yutaka Yoshii

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Fujimori

Koji Yakusho

Shinichiro Yoshii

Shun Sugata

Sachiko Iwatani

Lily

Chizuru Yoshii

Kumiko Aso

Kasaki

Show Aikawa

Miki

Yoriko Doguchi

Murota

Ren Osugi

Kurume

Hiromitsu Suzuki

Doctor

Kosuke Toyohara

Akira Ueda

Masahiro Toda

Ueda's Mother

Michi Yamamura

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