Thousand Cranes 1989

April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winning, she starts getting tired more easily. She is sent back to the American Base Victory Hospital, where the diagnosis is lymphatic leukemia. And she has no more than a year left to live. Her parents agree with the doctor that Sadako should not be told, but will she find out anyway ?

Cast

Tamami Hirose

Gin Maeda

Chieko Baisho

Mako Ishino

Mamiko Tayama

Hiromi Iwasaki

Mie Watanabe

Saburo Shinoda

Kazuo Andō

Taiji Tonoyama

Chieko Aioi

Fumie Noguchi

Ben Hiura

Shouzou Hirabayashi

Takahiro Tamura