Sleeping Bride (2000)
Sleeping Bride is the story of a girl, Yumi, who since birth, has never been awake. A boy called Yuuichi finds the girl in the hospital while he is a patient there. A nurse remarks that the girl is 'Sleeping Beauty', and Yuuichi believes that a kiss from a prince will wake her, just like the story. Yuuichi returns to see Yumi every day, says 'Wake up, I'm the prince' and kisses her. Ten years later he restarts his daily ritual to see Yumi, one day she wakes up.
- Released
- 2000-01-29
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Hideo Nakata, Chiaki J. Konaka
- TMDB rating
- 4.6/10 from 7 votes
Cast
- Risa Goto as Yumi Iida
- Hiroki Kohara as Yuuichi Nagasawa (17 years)
- Takaaki Enoki as Dr. Hishikawa
- Yūko Natori as Ritsuko Nagasawa
- Masako as Masako Iida
- Rikiya Ôtaka as Yuuichi Nagasawa (Aged 7)
- Toshie Negishi as Nurse
- Moro Morooka as Yumi's father
- Yoko Ohshima as Yuuchi's mother
- Michiko Kawai as Mitsu Fukuhara
- Tomoka Hayashi as Keiko Mizoguchi
- Tomiyuki Kunihiro