Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Studio: Fuji Television Network, Sankei Shimbun, Sumitomo Corporation, dentsu, Kodansha, WOWOW, Asmik Ace Entertainment, Fortissimo Films
- Keyword: suicide, based on novel or book, sanitarium, young man, reading, kyoto, japan, 1960s
- Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara, Reika Kirishima, Eriko Hatsune, Tetsuji Tamayama