# Secret (1999)

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**Original title**: *秘密*
**Runtime**: 119 min
**Genres**: Drama, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Yojiro Takita
**Written by**: Hiroshi Saito
**Starring**: Hirosue Ryoko, Kaoru Kobayashi, Ken Kaneko, Yuriko Ishida, Hideaki Ito, Tomoe Shinohara

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Their worst day becomes her borrowed one: a father copes when his wife’s mind wakes inside their daughter’s body after a crash. A quiet heartbreaker where grief gets a second chance at home.

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