20200714 1 Litre of Tears

Tuesday, 14 July

#Today I wanna write about Japanese drama which can make me cried every time I watched. It was 1 liter of tears.

This drama stared by Erika Sawajiri as Ikeuchi Aya and Ryo Nishikido as Asou Haruto.

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I took these articles from the website https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Litre_no_Namida_(TV_series).

1 Litre no Namida (1リットルの涙, lit. "1 Litre of Tears"; also called A Diary with Tears or A Diary of Tears) is a 2005 Japanese television drama for Fuji Television, based on a true story of a 15-year-old girl named Aya Kito, who suffered from degenerative disease and died at the age of 25.

The script is based on Aya's diary that she kept writing until she could no longer hold a pen. The diary is later entitled, One Litre of Tears, which has sold over 1.1 million copies in Japan

Fifteen-year-old Ikeuchi Aya is an ordinary girl, soon to be a high school student and daughter of a family who works at a tofu shop. As time passes, unusual things start happening to Aya. She begins falling down often and walking strangely. Her mother Shioka takes Aya to see the doctor, and he informs Shioka that Aya has spinocerebellar degeneration - a rare disease where the cerebellum of the brain gradually deteriorates to the point where the victim cannot walk, speak, write, or eat. A cruel disease, as it does not affect the mind. The story revolved around the time from when Aya was 14-20 before a big-time skip. When she died at 25, her family carried her wishes for her body to be donated for medical research purposes.

On April 5, 2007, Fuji Television aired a three-hour special of the series set five years after Aya's death (2019) and focuses on Haruto Asō, who has now become a doctor at the same hospital Aya was treated in, and Ako Ikeuchi, Aya's younger sister who is a nurse in training. Rika, Aya's youngest sister, just started high school. Haruto is caring for a 14-year-old female patient, Mizuki, who was bullied in school because of her disease, the same one that Aya had. Because of the bullying at school, Mizuki-chan decides not to receive therapy of any sort that would make her better, because she has lost her will to live. Haruto remembers how Aya fought her illness and lived her life with her disease; therefore, he offers support to his patient. Aya reappears in the episode using a number of flashbacks from the series and in new scenes.

Comparisons to the source material

• Aya and the family's last name changed to Ikeuchi.
• In reality, Aya also has another younger brother called Kentaro, but he was not in the series.
• According to Shioka's book, "Hurdles of Life", written after Aya's death, her husband is an office worker and doesn't own a tofu shop.
• All places' names are fictional. Aya grew up in  Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture
• Both Aya's were diagnosed in 9th grade (3rd year of middle school), but Aya Ikeuchi didn't show first symptoms until she was sitting her entrance exams, and switched schools after official diagnosis. They both moved to a special-needs school whilst in their first years of high school.
• Only Aya Ikeuchi played basketball pre-diagnosis from middle school.
• They were both conductors in school choirs.
• Aya Kito had never been in a relationship. Haruto Asō and his father are fictional characters created by the family's request.
• Aya Ikeuchi's primary doctor is male instead of female.
• The series is set in the mid-2000s so the public payphones are in button form instead of rotary form. They use cell phones instead of pagers and letters.
• Aya Ikeuchi was set to be born in 1989, a year after Aya Kito's passing, she was admitted to hospital in 2009, and died in 2014, so her death was set in the future. Both died at 12:55 am. The series ended in 2015, a year after Ikeuchi's passing. Photographs of Kito was also shown at the end of the series.
• In the final picture, the Hiragana board is in the reverse direction (from left to right), and does contain numbers, but does not in the series.
• Like the original, Ako graduated from the same high school that Aya left, and both she and her mother work in healthcare.
• Both Ikeuchi and Kito were in the biology club.
• The base color for the high school uniforms of Aya Kito is dark-colored but is in white for the Ikeuchi's.

The first time, I knew this drama from my younger sister. She told me that she has watched a sad Japanese drama based on a true story. So, I interested to watch it too.

I liked this drama, because :
1. Based on a true story
2. Show me how Aya battled with her disease
3. Show me how Aya's family supported her.

I have watched this drama many times and I always cried. 😅😅😅

#enoughfortoday #qmo