Drawing Closer

About Drawing Closer

With only a year left to live, 17-year-old Akito finds new meaning in life by bringing joy to a terminally ill girl who has just six months remaining.

Drawing Closer (2024) is a romance film directed by Takahiro Miki. At 119 minutes long, it arrived in June 2024.

Its themes are high school student and terminal illness. The story is adapted from a novel.

Ren Nagase takes the lead as Akito Hayasaka, Natsuki Deguchi as Haruna Sakurai, Mayuu Yokota as Ayaka Miura, and Fumino Kimura as Mikiko. The screenplay is by Takahiro Miki and Tomoko Yoshida. It was produced by Django Film and Nikkatsu Corporation. In the United States it streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, and The Kissing Booth make useful companions to Drawing Closer. TMDB voters put it at 8.4 out of 10 across 238 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.