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License to Live

19991h 50mKiyoshi Kurosawa

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"Am I dreaming? Did I really exist?"

Having fallen into a coma following a car accident at 14, Yutaka wakes ten years later and realizes that his family is no longer intact: father, mother and sister live at different places, so he decides to reopen the farm that his family once ran.

DramaComedy
JapanComaFishingHorseTimeMemoryFamilyPassage Of TimeBroken FamilyAccident

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What is License to Live (1999) about?

Having fallen into a coma following a car accident at 14, Yutaka wakes ten years later and realizes that his family is no longer intact: father, mother and sister live at different places, so he decides to reopen the farm that his family once ran.

Who stars in License to Live?

License to Live stars Hidetoshi Nishijima (Yutaka Yoshii), Koji Yakusho (Fujimori), Shun Sugata (Shinichiro Yoshii), Lily (Sachiko Iwatani), Kumiko Aso (Chizuru Yoshii). The film was directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

How long is License to Live?

License to Live has a runtime of 1 min and premiered in 1999.

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