I Give My First Love to You

I Give My First Love to You
Theatrical poster
Directed byTakehiko Shinjo
Written byKenji Bando
Story byKenji Bando
Based onI Give My First Love to You
by Kotomi Aoki
Produced byMitsuru Komiyama, Mika Nakamura, Hiroyasu Murakami, Fumihiro Hirai
Starring
CinematographyMitsuru Komiyama
Music byYoshihiro Ike
Production
companies
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 24 October 2009 (2009-10-24) (Japan)
Running time
122 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$24,051,386[1]

I Give My First Love to You (僕の初恋をキミに捧ぐ, Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu) is a 2009 Japanese film. It was based on a manga of the same name by Kotomi Aoki, and it was released on 24 October 2009 in Japanese cinemas.[2] The story revolves around Takuma Kakinouchi, a boy who is told he will die before he is 20, and Mayu Taneda, a girl who is in love with him.

The film is directed by director Takehiko Shinjo, and stars newcomer actor Masaki Okada and actress Mao Inoue, who played the role of Makino Tsukushi in the television drama and film adaptation of Hana Yori Dango.[3] The film's theme song was sung by Japanese singer Ken Hirai.[4]

  1. ^ "Box Office Mojo". IMDb. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
  2. ^ "Boku no Hatsukoi wo Kimi ni Sasagu". Nippon Cinema. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference tokyograph1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Kinejun Cinema". Kinema-Junposha, Co., Ltd (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2011.