License to Live

License to Live

Am I dreaming? Did I really exist?

1999•1h 50m•6.1/10

DramaComedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.1/10(16)

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.

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Production

Daiei Film

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Yutaka Yoshii

Koji Yakusho

Koji Yakusho

Fujimori

Shun Sugata

Shun Sugata

Shinichiro Yoshii

Lily

Lily

Sachiko Iwatani

Kumiko Aso

Kumiko Aso

Chizuru Yoshii

Show Aikawa

Show Aikawa

Kasaki

Yoriko Doguchi

Yoriko Doguchi

Miki

Ren Osugi

Ren Osugi

Murota

Hiromitsu Suzuki

Hiromitsu Suzuki

Kurume

Kosuke Toyohara

Kosuke Toyohara

Doctor

Masahiro Toda

Masahiro Toda

Akira Ueda

Michi Yamamura

Michi Yamamura

Ueda's Mother

Tarō Suwa

Tarō Suwa

Old Man

Akira Otaka

Akira Otaka

Garbage Man

Hajime Inoue

Hajime Inoue

Officer

Masaharu Ishibashi

News Announcer

Yukari Fuyune

Sakiko Hashimoto

Miyako Kawahara

Miyako Kawahara

Mayuko Kimura

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