Ningyo no nemuru ie (2018)

Ningyo no nemuru ie: Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi. With Ryôko Shinohara, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Rina Kawaei. 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.

“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.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e(Watched and reviewed at its India premiere at the 3rd Japanese Film Festival of India in Mumbai.)”