Recently watched a Japanese movie, when I finished watching it, I couldn't control myself, and my tears wet my eyes.
It is:
"The Best Gift of Life"
To be honest, in fact, the plot of this film is something we can all see in film and television dramas
It's about her daughter after she learned that she had cancer.
In the few days he has left, he comes to reconcile the contradictions before his father and spends the rest of his life with his father.
The protagonist of this drama, Ryosuke, has lived alone in Tokyo since the death of his wife.
His daughter Yuriko lives with her husband in another city.
Father and daughter rarely interact and rarely contact each other.
During a fortuitous examination, Yuriko discovers that she has cancer.
After thinking about it for a few days, she wanted to go back to her old home and live with her father for a while.
On this day, his daughter returned to her hometown
Ryosuke asked curiously: How did you suddenly come home? Did something happen?
Yuriko said quietly, "It's okay, don't think about it."
After Yuriko lived at home for a while, the father did not see the meaning of his daughter leaving.
So I asked a neighbor to come and probe my daughter's tone, but in the end I didn't ask anything.
Until one morning, he saw his daughter crying in front of his wife's tombstone.
So Ryosuke decided to take his daughter to his son-in-law's house to ask for clarification.
At his son-in-law's house, he found that his daughter's bookshelf was almost always his own translation, and each one was marked with Post-it notes.
At this point he seemed to understand something:
Although he loves his daughter, because of his personality, he has not bravely expressed his love.
After learning from his son-in-law that his daughter had cancer, Ryosuke both blamed himself and said sadly: I am really an unqualified father.
Ryosuke felt that he had been trying to maintain his authority all his life, and the busyness of work made him forget to care about his family.
When I got old, I found that I had not fulfilled my responsibilities as a father all along, and I owed my daughter too much.
After learning about his daughter's cancer, Ryosuke still tried his best to maintain the previous pattern of getting along with his daughter.
But in the end, Yuriko found the clues,
Originally, Yuriko thought that if her father knew of his illness, he would cry bitterly, pity himself,
But her father was carefully guarding her self-esteem and did not mention anything in front of her.
In the days that followed, Yuriko and her father spent a lot of good things in life together: they went to the temple together to pray for blessings, walked in the streets together, went to the bookstore together...
During the days spent with her father, Yuriko also gained many "firsts" in her life:
For the first time, I ate a meal made by my father;
The first time he stood in the kitchen with his father and cooked together;
For the first time, he smiled and lay on his father's shoulder to wipe his tears.
In fact, when Yuriko's life came to an end,
Her wish is simple:
I just want to spend more time with my father; I want to keep more good memories of myself and my father; I want to live with my father simply like this.
At the end of the film, when the father and daughter are about to separate,
Ryosuke took two steps forward and stopped Yuriko and said, "The dish I taught you, you should make it well when you go back!" Don't worry, you can do it, come on!
At this time, Yuriko suppressed her tears and smiled and said to her father: "Good, I will cheer!"
A lot of times we feel this way:
When you lose it, you know how precious it is to cherish it, but when you can still have it, you know how precious it is to cherish the time with each other.
Whether it is friendship, affection or love, we must always understand these truths
Because some things and people, once lost, can never come back.