Akai Ito

Synopsis: The story focuses on the emotional and spiritual growth of the teenage heroine, while depicting everything from her adolescent love troubles to her father’s battle with cancer and her close friend’s struggle with drugs.

Atsushi (Junpei Mizobata) and Mei (Nao Minamisawa) first met as young children and were each other’s first love. After that puppy love ends they each go through their own trials and tribulations in their own lives and deal with issues like drugs, suicide, and domestic violence—but through it all they seem to be connected by a thread of fate.

Akai Ito refers to the East Asian belief of the red string of fate. Originating from Chinese legend, “the red string of fate” myth states that the gods tie an invisible string around the ankles of men and women who are destined to be soul mates and will one day marry each other.

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