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Ritual
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Ritual

Dec 7, 2000
2h 8m
★ 7.7

Overview

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Tokuma Shoten
Studio Kajino Company

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Ritual Trailers

Cast

Shunji Iwai

Director

Shunji Iwai

Ayako Fujitani

She

Ayako Fujitani

Jun Murakami

Bicycle Man

Jun Murakami

Shinobu Ôtake

Mother

Shinobu Ôtake

Suzuki Matsuo

Man (voice)

Suzuki Matsuo

Megumi Hayashibara

Woman (voice)

Megumi Hayashibara