MOVIE · 2016
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle
DramaMysteryRomance179 min
A woman preparing for her wedding hires actors and strangers to stand in as the friends and family she doesn’t have. Haru Kuroki is the bride at the center of this arrangement, moving through a ceremony built on rehearsed intimacy and borrowed connections. Cocco and Go Ayano are among the figures drawn into the performance as the lines between social obligation, loneliness, and invention start to blur. Shunji Iwai frames the setup through wedding rituals, online-era distance, and the strange fragility of a life assembled for public view.
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