Question: can anybody help jog my memory about a film; a short story within the film that depicts a terminally-ill young woman, and the distraught fiance who tries to tell her to hold on? She goes onto say "that once the last leaf on that tree falls, (outside of her bedroom window) I will be gone". The fiance refuses to accept this dim reality, so after a short scene, he decides upon his idea to paint the tree as an exact replica on the side of the adjacent white house, with one last leaf still on its branches. He is pleased with himself after so much effort to liven up the spirits of his lover, but when he looks over at the window when he is finished, his fiance does not respond. I'm not sure if he falls down into a fade to black pit of darkness, but this is what I'm imagining.
The films that it reminds me of (and I think the story could be found within) are:
James and the Giant Peach, Requiem for a Dream, and The Ring. I doubt it is either of those films, but just giving you a gist. I'm also not ruling out that this may be a
Hayao Miyazaki feature.
Do you happen to know of the feature-length film in which I am describing (however tenuously)?