A Song to the Sun

タイヨウのうた

Taiyou no Uta

Kaoru Amane is a sixteen-year-old girl who has xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare genetic condition that makes her skin severely damaged by sunlight. Because of this, she stays inside during the day and only goes out at night, playing her guitar and singing at the local train station. From a distance, she watches a young boy and wishes she could talk to him. With help from her cousin, she finds out his name is Kouji Fujishiro. One night, chance brings them together, and that first meeting makes Kaoru’s secret admiration for him grow even stronger. As her feelings become deeper, the difficulties caused by her illness threaten to complicate and hurt their new relationship.

Background

Taiyou no Uta is based on the Japanese film of the same title, which released in Japan on June 17, 2006. There was also a TV drama which was broadcast from July 14 to September 15, 2006. The film was remade as a Vietnamese/Japanese drama in 2015, and as an American film titled Midnight Sun, which released in March 2018.

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