This dorama is about a girl who was diagnosed with a disease called “Spinocerebellar Degeneration” when she was 15 years old, and was able to continue her life until her death at the age of 25 years old.
The plot is based on the true story of a Japanese girl named Kito Aya, who had the same disease. She kept writing in her diary to remember her experiences until she could no longer hold a pen. Aya simply wished to live until the end of her life, and the purpose of writing in the diary was to remind herself to not give up. She shed tears many times, at the same time encompassed by the rich love and support from her family, friends, and boyfriend. Her diary “1 Litre of Tears” was published after her death, because of its inspiring and courageous message of
“Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing.”
So far, over 18,000,000 copies of her diary have been sold.
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The Review
This dorama features Sawajiri Erika, Nishikido Ryou, Narumi Riko, Yakushimaru Hiroko, Jinnai Takanori and Fujiki Naohito. Sawajiri Erika has powerfully brought out the character of Aya, and people who watch this dorama will feel compassion for her while she suffers from the illness. My tears flowed after almost every episode as I questioned myself, “What would I do if I were Aya?” This is a dorama where you can see a 15 year old young girl who was able to face her disease bravely, and tried her best to treasure the time she spent with her friends, family and boyfriend everyday she could.
To me, this was one of the best doramas of 2005, mainly because the reality of this story has enlightened me. I realized that my life is not that tough compared to those who are suffering from an incurable disease. “1 Litre of Tears” stood out for a reason: it is not because Aya was upset because of her disease, she was touched by the love and patience she received from her friends and family. I was amazed by the braveness with which she chose to live her life, as a strong girl who was only 15 years old, yet managed to face her cruel fate with a positive outlook, and tried her best to do whatever she could by herself.
For those dorama fans who loved “Beautiful Life” that starred Takuya Kimura & Tokiwa Takako, I’d bet you guys will appreciate this story too. I can feel the power of the love from her family and friends in this story, and encouraged me to be positive in my life even though there may be many difficulties and problems. I hope there will be somebody who is willing to translate the original diary by Kito Aya sold in Japan because she has a lot of meaningful words in her diary. This story contains both sadness and love, and I hope you guys will love this dorama as much as I did.
Episode 1 synopsis
This dorama starts right before Aya is confronted with the illness, Spinocerebellar Degeneration, in which the nerve cells of areas necessary for the human body to move and balance–including the cerebellum, brain stem, and spinal cord–transform and eventually disappear.
Ikeuchi Aya (Sawajiri Erika), a 15 year old girl, is the eldest daughter in a normal Japanese family. She lives with her reliable mother, Shioka, who works as a nutritionist, her father, Mizuo, the wacky owner of a tofu shop, her quiet younger brother, Hiroki, and two younger sisters, the sarcastic Ako and innocent Rika. On the day of her high school entrance exam, she left the house full of energy, but she missed her stop to get off the bus and walk to her high school because she fell asleep. She quickly got off and ran from the bus in the rain when she discovered she was late. She slipped, fell down and injured her knee. At that time, she met Haruto Aso, who was trying to skip the exam. He gave her a ride to school, the administrators allowed them to take the exam (despite the fact that Haruto was uninterested in taking it), which they both later passed.
The new semester began, Aya and Haruto were in the same class, and both were elected as the representative of their class. Aya also joined the basketball team, and was reunited with the boy who she was fond of from the male basketball team. Just as she was beginning to enjoy her high school days, Aya starts to experience some physical difficulties. She always dropped food from her chopsticks, could not estimate the distance of the objects in front of her, could not pour water into a cup without spilling it, and occasionally wobbled while walking. Her mother, Shioka, who was the only one to notice the physical changes in Aya, started to worry about what was going on.
One day, Aya’s life started to change after she tripped and fell. She couldn’t protect herself with her hands while falling and she hurt her face. After this, her illness is slowly revealed and her tragedy begins…
Purchase: “1 Litre of Tears” DVD Box
Purchase: “1 Litre of Tears” diary (in Japanese)
Purchase: “1 Litre of Tears” diary (in English)
Purchase: “1 Litre of Tears” Original Soundtrack
Torrent: Fansub by Kioku Konseki
Torrent: Original Soundtrack
Insert song: Konayuki by Remioromen
Translation: by Kiwi and Pye (ongoing)
Translation: by Ayafan (ongoing)
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I can’t believe i watched less than 3 days..
It’s so touching.. i can’t hold my feeling to stop my tear.. T_T anyone can sponsor me tissue..?? T_T
It’s very very good drama and encourage everybody to precious their live. 10 star for this drama.. :thumb
my comment for diz story is dat..well its touching.. if i watch it alone..i’ll be crying alot.. but in front of people i didt cry dat much..coz well im shy to cry infront of people.. but sawajiri is really gud at being the charecter.. soo i wanna say congrats to her.. and also haruto.. kakoii desu!! O.o ok..dats all.. “1 litre of tears” is one of da best movie i watch
i love this series..i watched over and over again and i just cried over and over again…it just makes me appreciate my family more
Aya, did you see how many people reply here,
you have that disease in you yet you accomplish much more than people who still healthy.
shioka is a strong girl too, she always support her daughter, i almost cry when she gave reason to aya to live on.
the nicest jap show i ever watched…
aya is really a brave…admire how she faces her life after she got the illness…i wonder how will i face myself…never the less…learn how to cherish my life n health…
i want to buy the book…does anyone noe where to get the english translated one???
This Drama is brilliant.. i havent seen a drama that would make me cry so much.. it was so touched by it.. the bravness aya’s willing to face.. i woul love to read her diary… is it possible to had a english version?? i could read?? from a website? or a book i can buy.. but in enlgish ??
many thanks
I’m from Indonesian. In my opinion about the “1 litre of tears” is sadness-story that I ever Seen before. it was good Film ever made. I felt sad when I watched it, it was very touch film.
christine:
someone’s been translating this online…
heres the link: http://www.xanga.com/OneLitre
:)
Is this book translated in english? I want to read it so badly. Anyone know the author? Please email back if anyone knows!! =[
I´m chinese. I live in Sweden. I Love this movie 1 litre of tears. It´s make me sad sometimes. And Ryou is so amazing. Love This movie and hope You to going to make a new movie. Goodluck
one litre of tears – that is the same amount my heart also cried while watching this drama… this story remembered me to treasure my life and health – nowadays ppl tend to forget how beautiful life can be and how beautiful the little things are. things and moments, whose importance went deaf in middle of our loud and blind society.
amazing achievement of all the actors (especially sawajiri erika) and director.
thank you for telling the story of a very brave girl named aya kito.
it really touch my heart deeply when i watch this drama…it really a good drama i had ever watch before..kampateh o/..
1 rittorou no namida is really really thumb up j-dorama i ever seen til now. I’d like to read the original Kitou Aya’s diary too. what a sad story, but tell us a lot about meaning of life. So, for you & me, everybody in this world, who are healthy don’t ever try to suicide. Don’t you know how much Aya want to live??? Even though she couldn’t. Also i want to buy the original DVD to collect them, so that someday i can show it to my children or perhaps my grand children also. Hehe….
wonderful drama!!! sad ending, but great story…the actress and actor also suitable for the film.
this is a very heart touchign story. i just finished watching this last night. managed to finish watching it in 2 days. it really is one hella jDorama that one can never miss out on.
am sure who ever watched this has cried 1 litre of tears indeed! the tears came flooding from episode 4 onwards. also after knowing that its based on a true story, it made me feel how lucky i actually am!
strongly recommend it! xD plus ALL THE CHARACTERS are nice looking! lols!! ^^* Aya is pretty and Haurto is kawaii!! ne!?!
What can I say…this is the best drama that I ever seen…It seem like me at the place of Aya’s. I have learn something from this character…about a time, future, fate, love and more…from now on, I will keep all the rest of my life in diary…ganbatte
one litre of tires is the best of dorama i have ever seen.this is the true story which make me tell meaning of life and give me spirit of life. i like so much aya (sawajiri erika is beautiful girl and do best what should she do).i couldn’t say any more “she is a good person”.thanks for all.
This is the best dorama that i’ve ever seen. After watching this movie i try to be like aya. Treasure my time so that there will be no regret in my future. Thank u ikeuchi for reminding me about the importance of enjoying my time and do what i want while i can.
If anyone has aya’s diary writen in english please tell me.
i very like ichi rittoru nonamida.. its very interesting and make me sad.. i always remember this dorama.. b’cause this dorama its very nice..
omg this movie is the best eva..for u pls that havnt watched it great and really emotional….its really touching..i couldnt believe that it was a true stori. i cried n cried n watched it lyk..more than 10 tymes..its the best jap movie i hab eva watched!!! =D
i would jus like to say that this is one of the most moving dorama’s i have ever seen! I thought that Sawajiri Erika was sooo brilliant in the way she acted. I could really feel how she must have felt. I thought that this was an amazing dorama and has taught me a lot about life and how i should cherish it. THANK YOU AYA!
Truly one of the best dramas I have ever watched. And I thought GTO was awesome, although it is..1LOT just gets to me differently. I seriously have never cried so much during a drama as I did while watching these episodes. I love the OST to the show also, esp the song “Konayuki”, which always seemed to play whenever Aya and Haruto got together. Aaah, Haruto is the sweetest guy ever. This show is amazing :’)
Everyone, may i know how to get the real diary written by Kito Aya in english version? I can’t wait to read it….. Where can get it in Malaysia? hope u all reply me to my e-mail : pradaloo at yahoo dot com.
Thank you every one! Appreciate our’s life!
Dude..this movie is sad…and its based on a true story….*sighs*..i admit i cried in this movie..
It’s a relly heart-tourching story. I thought I wouldn’t cry ,but after watch it, the tears started to drop.It’s a sad story , Aya was a strong girl…really touching my heart…I’m from Brazil but reading the english subtitles… Awsome story!!!!!!!!! It encourages us to go on, never give up! Oh my god I will never forget this story!!!!!!It’s the first J-Dorama I’ve watched and I really apreciatted!!!!!!!! :_ (
I am in the middle of watching the series and well, i never thought this series could be this good.. the story was very moving, it lets you to learn how good it is just to be able to live hiks.. the song was very2 sweet, soo heartwrenchingly sad, and it’s really hard to be that brave, in her situation…. T-T highly recommended!!! yup, this is one like Beautiful Life, i hope J-dorama will get better and better.. 1 litre of tears, has much much more love and meaning of life, than we expected..
wow j’ai deja regarde le film 1 Liter of Tears
je bien prefere ce film
c’est un un dans tous les bons films que j’ai deja regardee
j’aime bien tous les personnage dans ce film
woow
les 2 chansons dans ce film sont tres merveilleux
Aya et Haruto sont un couple de l’amant est tres bien
mais le final de ce film est un peu pas plus bie
wow
I have just watching 1 Liter Of tears
i love this drama so much
it’s one of famous drama
i love all of persons in thi drama
i love 2 song ONLY HUMAIN and POWDER SNOW too it’s very nice
Aya and Haruto is very nice
In Indonesia, this story is very inspired people and make them understand about the meaning of life…..aya is one of the strongest girl in the world and her spirit will never end….with my love and all my pleasure, a human should watch this movie to learn become the real human….
This is the most amazing show~
I completely recommend it.
I am glad i watched this drama
The Song of 9th march, KONAYUKI and k only human r de best!
o yea….. forgot to mention, Erika is so good @ acting.
i think this drama wont be as good witout erika yea?
well, i dont know how to exactly express my feeling.
I cried along all the episodes. I ve never skipped any scene which i’ve always done with other series.
I do tresure her spirit. I once had an accident and my knee was broken. I couldn’t stand by my own and need to use a wheelchair. Sometimes I couldn’t do thing as I wish. Many people offered helps to me, i thought that I was just a burden. It’s not good, I recall my feeling from this series.
She’s so great!
For the missing episodes guys try youtube =D becuz this is really a great serie and i’d like all of you to finish it too =)
Hm… I dun know what to say. That’s a very good movie i ever watched. I like the story, the actors and all the songs from that dorama. Can anyone tell me where i can download the other songs from that dorama. Thanx a lot.
ONE LITRE OF TEARS IS THE BEST
i lov so much this drama.it’s make me appreciate to all members of my family.make me know about the price of live.
i really like the show 1 litre of tears, every eps make me cry although i m a guy, but it’s so touching, i like Aya because she really work very hard, brave and continue to find what she can contribute in her life, i feel so ashame because after watching this show, i felt that i have been wasting my time all this years.
i also like the actress (Erika Sawajiri) who bring out the charactor of Aya so well, hope she will also work hard like Aya.
i hope this show can really come to singapore, because i really hope that people will know about this brave person Aya, and i believed this show will be so popular and so good to watch that everyone will not even like to miss 1 ep of this.
1 litre of tears is a great series movie that i ever watch… it is really touching our heart. I guess the one who are not crying when watching this movie, doesn’t have any feeling anymore… ^_^
For sure it is recommended to watch… In my place… this movie is already like virus.. most of my friends already watched this movie… and the only one word that they can say…. “GREAT!!!!”
1 Litre of Tears. Is amazing drama. I never cried when watched the drama, even got watched movie similar to this one. I tell my friend i cried while watched this movie, she said this must be the great movie, because as she know that i hard to cried even facing the hardest problem. i decribed my experience during watched this movie, amazing, i cried almost 1 litre of tears. Amazing. This movie showing us that we shouldn’t give up single chance to live. Appreciated our family and relative. Live is short, we need to appreciate our live, some people is still fighting at outside for their live. When thinking back, we are more lucky. I like this drama. i lwii Introduce to more Friend. If you all is the fan for this “1 litre of Tears”, introduce to all your friend. Send Aya message to all. Is really meaningful. Thanks for aware me something important which i have forget it. Thanks for this drama.
This drama really does inspire people to be tough facing obstacles and difficulties in their life….
Even only the words written in Aya-chan’s diary touched my heart…If i were her, there’s no way i could have the courage to be strong and optimistic like her….And this drama convey such a meaningful meaning that made me shed a tear after watching each episodes….truly 1 litre of tears… =…(
Best J-Dorama I’ve ever watched.Every episodes can trigger tears and in the end I’m become emo,lol.Anyways,this is not just another love or idol film but a film that teaches us to treasure our lives and no matter what happen as long as persist with strong will,you can never fail.Eventhough she died at the end but still she died with honour and respect although the late she was only 25 when she left…at least she didn’t give up.What a brave girl…
if there’s a category for the best dorama for 2005-2006, it must be 1 Litre no Namida. That was totally good. I must admit that this dorama proper to got score 20/10. I’ve lend it to my friends. First, she told me that the dorama couldn’t make her cry, but the fact? She always cry when she watch each eps! Guess this is the most affected dorama for this year! Thank you to Kitou Aya, the one that inspired the dorama and inspired us too to appreciate your life.
i wll be like aya, aya have power of live… i like her way to handle her live…
i very happy when i watced 1 litre of tears… i hope this movie will be come in Indonesia
err….she didnt have a bf..o.O
i just finished watching the series last night. It took me whole 9hours to watch from the first episode until the very last eleventh episode, and need i say more? i shed tears countless of times. So touching!
At the very ending on each episode, there’ll be Kito Aya’s pictures and i just couldn’t help but feel sad more. Somehow she encouraged me too. To be optimistics in life. To accept for who we are regardless of how flawless we may be.
Too good to be true!
This was really really a touching story. I had not been crying nonstop when watching a sad film. I almost cry when watching every episod. I was able to finish watching it within one day (of course there was a rest in between). This story let us know the meaning of life, therefore we should live without giving up no matter what difficulties we will face. I was touched with Aya word “Why was me?”. She so brave… I think non of us will ever be tough and brave as Aya. Aya, we will always remember you!!!
The 1st time i heard the name of this drama i thought it was juz another love drama from japan and i didnt bother to take a look at it. Till that day my fren watch it on my pc and i watch with him. Since the 1st episode i cant stop myself from not watching it. Finally i watched all the episodes within one day and like it very much. The story so touching, erika plays aya’s role so well that could make ppl shed tears. Sumore the songs inside the movie..juz so nice and very suitable when come acroos the scene between aya and haruto. nice movie. i gv it a 10 out of 10.
I always cried when I watched each eps. coz the story was really sad and also so beautiful. It can inspired us to learn to apreciate your own life. Truly good for me. Unfortunately, I haven’t saw the eps. 8 and 9. Does anyone have the link or website to download it? I’m really needed it.
Keep bravely to fight the disease!
OH my goodness, i just finished whatching the first episode. i love this drama so much! i am hopeing ot purchase a copy of Aya’s diary, and a DVD with the drama ep’s on it
Also, i had a question. Can anyone tell me if this dorama is on DVD? I want to buy it so badly!
I wonder if you had the song ’sangatsu kokonda’ sang by aya’s class, which was in the drama series,, would be so nice to have that version!! Because it really evokes emotional feelings!!
Thanks anyway! Great series!!
The outstanding number of comments here is the reason why am i dl-ing this drama. 7 down, 4 to go. I have not watch any part of it yet. Because it takes for ever for the first episode of dl. Just now i just check thru the completed dls for the subs. When i came to the final episode, i saw her writing so harding on the paper. I barely know the story after i read the review here. And i realised that she was goin to and end. Even though i have not watch it yet at all, by a glance at that writing part, my tears already started to sprout.
Hope my dl will be completed asap. And i will sure buy the ori when it is available in my country.
1 litre of tears is very touch my heart. i’m come from indonesia.i have just watch that movie just now.. OH my GOD, THIS movie really great, i got that movie from brother. and when i saw that movies 1,2,3 episodes make me feel compassion until at this time. i like this movie very much. I also give this movie to my friends and they said to me it’s very best and they also cried after they watched it.. the song of that film is really great too.. aya is brave girl….bravo
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