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A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (リップヴァンウィンクルの花嫁, Rippu van winkuru no hanayome) is a 2016 Japanese drama film written, directed, edited and co-produced by Shunji Iwai, based on his novel of the same name.
Mar 26, 2016 · A Bride for Rip Van Winkle: Directed by Shunji Iwai. With Haru Kuroki, Cocco, Gô Ayano, Gô Jibiki. Nanami is an apathetic, part-time junior high school teacher, whose only solace comes from connecting with others on "Planet".
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- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Shunji Iwai
- 2016-03-26
An unhurried look at one woman’s journey of self-discovery. Nanami meets Tetsuya online and decides to marry him. Without relatives or friends to attend her wedding, she hires actors to portray ...
- 1 min
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- Eleven Arts
If All About Lily Chou-Chou was the A Brighter Summer Day of the message board era, then A Bride for Rip Van Winkle is the Mahjong (Or Yi yi?) of the age of social media. A sprawling three hour epic of loneliness, Haru Kuroki stars as Nanami, a young woman adrift in a world where the virtuality of identity has spread from the internet to ...
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- Rockwell Eyes
- Shunji Iwai
A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.
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- Haru Kuroki
- Shunji Iwai
- Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Romance
Nanami is an apathetic, part-time junior high school teacher, whose only solace comes from connecting with others on "Planet", a new social network service. One day, a young man named Tetsuya messages her and asks to meet in person. The two begin dating and quickly become engaged.
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Apr 12, 2016 · Japanese director Shunji Iwai rudely tears up the phony promise of marriage and bourgeois life in “A Bride for Rip Van Winkle,” a cruel yet riveting tale of a young wife’s inexorable fall ...