Let Me Eat Your Pancreas (film)

Let Me Eat Your Pancreas
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	君の膵臓をたべたい
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai
Directed by	Shō Tsukikawa
Screenplay by	Yoru Sumino, Tomoko Yoshida [ja]
Based on	I Want to Eat Your Pancreas by Yoru Sumino
Produced by	Akira Kobe
Starring	Minami Hamabe Takumi Kitamura Keiko Kitagawa Shun Oguri
Cinematography	Hiroo Yanagida
Edited by	Junnosuke Hogaki
Music by	Suguru Matsutani
Production companies	Toho Pictures, Inc.
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	July 28, 2017 (2017-07-28)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	$39.1 million

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]

Plot

An introvert boy, Haruki Shiga, 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. The girl, Sakura Yamauchi, 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 spends with her.

Cast

• Minami Hamabe as Sakura Yamauchi
• Takumi Kitamura as Haruki Shiga
  • Shun Oguri as adult Haruki
• Karen Ōtomo as Kyōko Takimoto
  • Keiko Kitagawa as adult Kyōko
• Yūma Yamoto as Gamu-kun
  • Yusuke Kamiji as adult Gamu-kun
• Dori Sakurada as Takahiro
• Daichi Morishita as Kuriyama
• Satomi Nagano as Sakura's mother

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.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Let Me Eat Your Pancreas at IMDb