The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps

Name: Ningyo no nemuru ie
Genre: Drama
Released: 2018-11-16
Duration: 2 h
Rating: 6
Cast: Ryôko Shinohara, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kentarô Sakaguchi

Original title: Ningyo no nemuru ie

20182018
2h

6.0/10

286

Drama

Separated mother Kaoruko awaits the graduation of their daughter for the divorce proceedings to begin and subsequently be finalized. Tragedy strikes when the daughter will never graduate. Sh... Read allSeparated mother Kaoruko awaits the graduation of their daughter for the divorce proceedings to begin and subsequently be finalized. Tragedy strikes when the daughter will never graduate. She is comatose and brain dead due to an accident.Separated mother Kaoruko awaits the graduation of their daughter for the divorce proceedings to begin and subsequently be finalized. Tragedy strikes when the daughter will never graduate. She is comatose and brain dead due to an accident.

6.0/10

286

Director
- Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Writers
- Keigo Higashino(novel: "Ningyo no nemuru ie")
- Eriko Shinozaki(screenplay)
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Awards
- 1 nomination

Kentarô Sakaguchi in Ningyo no nemuru ie (2018)

Separated mother Kaoruko who has two offsprings from her estranged husband awaits the graduation of their daughter for the divorce proceedings to begin and subsequently be finalized. That is the couple's agreement. Tragedy strikes when the daughter will never graduate. She is comatose and brain dead due to an accident. The dilemma is whether to pull the plug and donate the girl's organs or await indefinitely to see if an unlikely healing will occur. —aghaemi

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Genre
- Drama
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Trivia
The film was part of the line-up at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival in Toronto, Canada in 2019.

Top review

6/10

One-Line Review: The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps / Moral Tearjerker / 6 Stars

A tearjerker that asks the right moral question at the end (what to do with a person in a vegetative state?) goes full-blown emotional to convey its message, The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps is overall a mopy drama that is bound to depress you if you are easily moved by human despair and hardships. TN.

(Watched and reviewed at its India premiere at the 3rd Japanese Film Festival of India in Mumbai.)

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