is a collaborative production between Japan and South Korea, directed by John H. Lee A Moment to Remember ) and based on the best-selling novel by Hitonari Tsuji
Released in 2010 (though premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2009), Sayonara Itsuka (literally "Goodbye, Someday") is an adaptation of Naoki Prize-winning author Junichi Watanabe’s 2001 novel. The film stars as Yuji Tohno, a diligent, strait-laced salaryman engaged to a superior’s daughter. On a business trip to Bangkok in the 1970s, he meets Michiko —played with electrifying fragility by Yūko Takeuchi —a mysterious, liberated, and tragic woman who turns his orderly life upside down. Sayonara.Itsuka.2010.1080p.BluRay.x264-aBD