The Messenger

Ayumi Shibuya (Tori Matsubasa), a high school student with an ordinary and delicate appearance ) has an incredible identity, and his family is known as the "Messenger". The so-called "messenger" can arrange for the living and the deceased to meet according to the entrustment and fulfill their unfinished wishes. As a trainee, Ayumi follows the instructions of her grandmother Aiko (played by Shirin Shuki) to meet with relevant clients, leading them to open the door to another world. During this period, he met the middle-aged Yasuhiko Hatada (played by Kenichi Endo) who deeply doubts the authenticity of the "messenger"; the high school girl Misa Arashi (played by Ai Hashimoto) who is murdering her relatives and friends in order to compete for the heroine of the drama; and his lover Teru Hinata (played by Misuzu Kiritani), a single office worker named Koichi Tsuchiya (played by Ryota Sato) who disappeared seven years ago and whose life and death are unknown. The thoughts and confessions that were too late to be expressed, as well as the secrets separated by life and death, were told in the long and short night... This film is adapted from the novel of the same name by the Naoki Award-winning female writer Tsujimura Fukasuki.