Let Me Eat Your Pancreas (film)

Let Me Eat Your Pancreas (Japanese: 君の膵臓をたべたい, Hepburn: Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai) is a 2017 Japanese romance drama film starring Minami Hamabe, Takumi Kitamura, Keiko Kitagawa and Shun Oguri. Directed by Shō Tsukikawa, it is based on the 2015 novel I Want to Eat Your Pancreas by Yoru Sumino.[1][2]

Let Me Eat Your Pancreas
Japanese name
Kanji君の膵臓をたべたい
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnKimi no Suizō o Tabetai
Directed byShō Tsukikawa
Screenplay byYoru Sumino, Tomoko Yoshida
Based onI Want to Eat Your Pancreas
by Yoru Sumino
Produced byAkira Kobe
StarringMinami Hamabe
Takumi Kitamura
Keiko Kitagawa
Shun Oguri
CinematographyHiroo Yanagida
Edited byJunnosuke Hogaki
Music bySuguru Matsutani
Production
companies
Toho Pictures, Inc.
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • July 28, 2017 (2017-07-28)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$39.1 million

Plot

An introvert boy, Haruki Shiga (Takumi Kitamura) comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. Looking through the book, he discovers that it is a diary kept by his very popular classmate, a girl (Minami Hamabe). The girl, Yamauchi Sakura who happens to see him holding on to her diary then reveals to him that she is secretly suffering from pancreatic cancer.

Sakura then playfully forces Haruki to attend to all her whims and fancies. Initially, Haruki begrudgingly accedes to her requests, citing the excuse that he is merely putting up with a sick classmate. However, as time passes, he finds himself being drawn to her and he begins to enjoy the time he spent with her.

Cast

Box office

In Japan, the film grossed ¥3.52 billion ($31.38 million), becoming the fifth highest-grossing domestic film of 2017.[3][4] Overseas, the film grossed $3.6 million in China,[5] $3,457,444 in South Korea,[6] $277,019 in the United States and Canada, and $115,494 in Spain, Thailand and Australia.[7] This brings the film's total worldwide gross to $39,129,957.

Awards
Award Category Nominee Result
42nd Hochi Film Award Best Picture Let Me Eat Your Pancreas Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Shun Oguri Nominated
Best New Artist Minami Hamabe Won
Takumi Kitamura Won
30th Nikkan Sports Film Award Best Film Let Me Eat Your Pancreas Nominated
Best Actress Minami Hamabe Nominated
Best Newcomer Won
Takumi Kitamura Nominated
72nd Mainichi Film Awards Best New Actor Nominated
Best New Actress Minami Hamabe Nominated
60th Blue Ribbon Awards Best Film Let Me Eat Your Pancreas Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Shun Oguri Nominated
Best Newcomer Minami Hamabe Nominated
Takumi Kitamura Nominated
27th Tokyo Sports Film Award Best Newcomer Minami Hamabe Nominated
Takumi Kitamura Nominated
41st Japan Academy Prize Picture of the Year Let Me Eat Your Pancreas Nominated
Newcomer of the Year Minami Hamabe Won
Takumi Kitamura Won

References
  1. Boon, Chan (13 September 2017). "Movie review: Let Me Eat Your Pancreas an old-fashioned tearjerker". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  2. "Let Me Eat Your Pancreas". BIFF. September 2017. Archived from the original on 2018-08-01. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  3. "Movies With Box Office Gross Receipts Exceeding 1 Billion Yen". Eiren. Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  4. "映画『君の膵臓をたべたい』評価は?感想ネタバレあらすじ/ラストに驚き？13考察とキミスイの意味？". ピクシーン Pick Scene 映画の評価ランキングやネタバレ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  5. "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas". EntGroup. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  6. "Let Me Eat Your Pancreas - South Korea". The Numbers. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  7. "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
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