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Sleeping Bride (2000)

Sleeping Bride poster
Original title
ガラスの脳
Directed by
Hideo Nakata
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man discovers a woman who has been in a coma for years. He becomes involved in her life and tries to find a way to wake her.

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What happens

Sleeping Bride (ガラスの脳, Garasu no Nō; "Glass Brain") is a Japanese 2000 romance film directed by Hideo Nakata, based on a comic by Osamu Tezuka. It is probably best known to Western audiences for its inclusion in a Collector's Edition Version of the 2004 Tartan Video DVD release of the Ring trilogy, which included it as a fourth Nakata feature unrelated to the Ring series. It was released on January 29, 2000. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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