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.)
Plot summary
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.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
Director
Top cast
Hidetoshi Nishijima as Kazumasa Harima
Tech specs
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 1.08 GB
1280*536
Japanese 2.0
NR
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