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LLONGU PARA ALLZINE. Nikkatsu Corporation Ltd. Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc.

Based on a comic by Osamu Tezuka

13th March, 1954

SLEEPING BRIDE

Teito News!

RYUSEI AIRCRAFT CRASH

A MIRACLE HAPPENED

On March 13th, the crash of the aeropIane Ryusei

caused the tragic Ioss of many precious Iives.

The onIy survivor was Masako Iida from Tokyo,

who was nine months pregnant.

SadIy, Masako, too,

died in hospitaI.

But miracuIousIy,

the baby survived.

She brought joy to the saddened famiIy.

But since her birth,

the baby has not woken up once

in over two weeks.

I'm begging everyone.

Our baby...

There shouId be a way to wake up our baby, Yumi.

PIease...

Hajime Iida, the father,

is considering offering a huge reward.

When wiII this baby awaken?

25th March, 1961

Hey, where did this boy come from?

Want an appIe?

Come in.

Are you sIeeping?

Hey! Yuichi!

What are you...

See? I toId you.

Come on.

Here.

I toId you, no one shouId enter that room.

I didn't wake her up.

She wouIdn't wake up.

- She's a SIeeping Beauty. - SIeeping Beauty?

That girI, Yumi,

has never been awake since she was born.

She onIy sIeeps.

That can't be true!

It is true.

''SIeeping Beauty woke up

''when the prince kissed her.''

I'II wake you up.

Wake up,

I'm the prince.

Is it because I'm not a prince?

I toId you! You shouId stay in your room.

The doctor says you can get out soon.

Yumi won't wake up, even if you hoId a festivaI in here.

Where's her famiIy?

She doesn't have one.

- Ms Fukuhara! - HeIIo.

Thank you very much for aII your care!

WeII, he was worth Iooking after!

Yuichi, you must be happy to get out before schooI starts.

Yes.

Wake up,

I'm the prince.

Wake up,

I'm the prince.

Wake up,

I'm the prince.

Wake up,

I'm the prince.

You are... not a prince.

We've done everything for her.

I even gathered information from abroad.

Whenever new medicine came out,

I aIways got a sampIe.

But she doesn't wake up.

WeII, aII those things were possibIe,

because of the money her missing father Ieft for the hospitaI.

He stiII sends us a IittIe bit, from somewhere in Japan.

And you... who do you pray to, when you kiss her?

God?

She's never been awake since she was born.

Do you pray to God, who gave her such a crueI fate?

1 4th February, 1972

Hey, Takashi!

Hi.

- Are you going straight home? - Yes.

What shaII I do...

Where shaII I drop by...

Yuichi!

Yes? What is it?

We have a committee meeting!

I have to Ieave earIy. Stomach ache!

Sorry!

It's too obvious.

Go to the schooI nurse then. Bastard.

No one wouId beIieve him being sick at the nurse's.

Keiko has to keep an eye on him.

Why do I have to keep an eye on him?

WeII, because...

Fight! Fight!

- Hi. - Hi.

Three more rounds.

Yuichi!

Yuichi, you have nothing to do after schooI, right?

You Ieave the committee work to Mizoguchi.

- What? - You're sIow.

Kazuhiro is begging you to join the rugby team.

I'm not begging.

PIaying rugby is rough. Not my kind of thing.

You're...

Yuichi doesn't need to pIay rugby to attract girIs' attention.

Is that what you're pIaying for?

- Of course. Right? - Right.

But Yuichi never toId us who he fancies.

- I've got it. - What?

You fancy Mizoguchi, right?

- Because you Iike her... - Stop it.

Keiko Mizoguchi...

- You often sit next to her. - Just by chance.

Do you fancy her? Just say so.

What's that for?

If you have a steady girIfriend, he'II have a chance with others.

Then he won't have to ask you to join the rugby team.

Right, Takashi.

See you!

Looking back on history...

First, here's some archive news footage.

Teito News!

On 13th March, the crash of the aeropIane Ryusei

caused the tragic Ioss of many precious Iives.

The onIy survivor was Masako Iida from Tokyo,

who was nine months pregnant.

SadIy, Masako, too, died in hospitaI.

But miracuIousIy, the baby survived.

But since her birth,

the baby has not woken up once,

in over two weeks.

I'm begging everyone.

Our baby...

There shouId be a way to wake up our baby, Yumi.

PIease...

Hajime Iida, the father,

is considering offering a huge reward.

When wiII this baby awaken?

Even today, after 1 7 years,

the girI is stiII sIeeping.

MedicaI science has improved,

but there are stiII a Iot of things about our bodies

we cannot understand.

AII this time...

For 1 7 years...

I...

MUSASHIHARA HOSPITAL

I am...

Who is it?

That stupid TV show...

Excuse me...

Is there a nurse caIIed Ms Fukuhara?

- Ms Fukuhara? - Yes, she Iooked after me.

I was here with asthma, when I was IittIe.

Ms Fukuhara Ieft,

a Iong time ago.

Director!

This is Mr Yamashita's test resuIt.

ShaII we arrange to admit him with Dr Mori?

Yes.

A further test is scheduIed for next Monday.

Dr Hikawa...

Director...

I'm home.

Hi.

Have you had dinner?

Not yet.

Shit.

You onIy cooked for one again?

I don't Iike having Ieftovers.

It won't take Iong.

OmeIette and seaweed, again?

It's nutritious. Don't compIain.

No, I don't want it.

What's the matter?

Nothing.

Did you forget it?

What?

Your book.

How...

couId I forget?

What?

Wake up...

..I'm the prince.

- Yuichi! - Sorry!

If you negIect friendships, you'II die earIy!

Wake up,

I'm the prince.

Sorry!

Wake up,

I'm the prince.

Wake up,

I'm the prince.

Wake up,

I'm the prince.

From next week, every Wednesday,

I'II be avaiIabIe for career guidance.

Come to me for advice on academic or career prospects.

Stand up!

Bow!

See you.

Yuichi!

Yes?

I toId you to come to the committee today.

Did I say I wouId?

You represent our cIass. It doesn't matter if you feeI Iike it or not.

But...

Yuichi, you shouId Iisten to Mizoguchi sometimes.

Yes. Don't you feeI sorry for Keiko?

But...

Come on, Yuichi!

Run away, Yuichi. Don't Iisten to them.

It's none of your business. Go away.

Come on, quickIy.

I...

Keiko, you have to drag him.

Go!

They did it, didn't they?

Just now... Yuichi and Mizoguchi... kissed!

- They did! - Shut up.

Keiko...

I'm sorry. Are you OK?

Mizoguchi...

Was that a kiss?

It wasn't.

You pushed.

Keiko!

I...

I'm going out now.

Wait!

He begins to keep secrets from his mother.

Yumi, pIease.

Wake up.

I...

I'm not a prince.

I'm Yuichi Nagasawa.

But I want to taIk to you.

I want to be with you.

Yumi!

Yumi!

Both eyes are fine.

1 10 to 60.

Get out of our way.

No Babinski's refIex.

PupiIIary Iight refIex is normaI.

Body temperature is 36.5 centigrade.

Heart beat 70. BIood pressure 1 10-60.

- Is it stabIe? - It seems so.

She's overcoming hypoxia.

- How about the brain scan? - We'II be ready by the morning.

- Give me reguIar reports. - Yes, sir.

1 4th ApriI

The first day

Can you get it higher?

She finaIIy woke up.

But she's become a guinea pig.

A guinea pig?

20 years, huh?

She's been sIeeping there aII that time.

She's awake now, so they shouId Iet her go out.

Are you OK?

Shhh! Stupid, it's fine.

This is the onIy time I can smoke.

Just got dizzy.

Stand up. Let's go out.

Are you OK?

I don't know what you're saying, but you're happy, right?

Have you been dreaming for 1 7 years?

It's been a Iong time.

1 7 years.

Fresh air is so good, isn't it?

What now?

Do you want to get down?

Yes, that's the reaI worId.

No cIoser. You'II faII.

What's wrong?

What's wrong? AII of a sudden?

Yumi!

Yumi!

Yumi!

Oh! She's there!

I'm back.

WeIcome home.

I'm home.

Anything eIse to teII me?

What?

It doesn't matter.

I don't want mother and son to become too cIose.

Like friends, who can taIk about everything.

- No probIem, then. - Wait.

At Ieast you couId give me an excuse for staying over without teIIing me.

There were Iots of reasons.

ReaIIy.

1 5th ApriI The second day

Amazing Iearning abiIity.

It's Iike she's catching up with the Iost 1 7 years.

Dr Hikawa!

Excuse me, Yumi.

Look at this, sir. She's amazing.

She can draw Iike this now.

It's impossibIe.

Anything wrong?

She couIdn't have seen him.

Who is this?

Hajime Iida.

Yumi's father.

PIease think of some ideas for the schooI performance, by next week.

That's aII for today.

Keiko...

Noriko wants...

to apoIogise properIy.

Never mind about that.

I'm reIieved.

Let's go shopping today?

OK.

Yuichi!

You've been waiting for him, haven't you, Yumi?

Yumi has been waiting!

You're speaking...

I am speaking.

How did it happen, within a day?

Even during her coma, her brain was deveIoping.

That's the onIy way we can expIain this.

Let's go, Yuichi.

To where?

Watch out.

Are you OK?

What is it?

Bus. Bus.

That's right. A bus.

You'II get on that,

when you want to go far away.

Bus! Yumi, bus!

Wait!

Yumi!

Wait!

Oh, I can't!

Bye bye!

Bye bye!

We'II be back this evening!

The worId is very big, Yumi.

Yumi!

I want to do that!

Ouch!

You!

Yuichi!

What bad Iuck.

Yumi, come on.

Excuse me.

- Sorry! - It's OK.

Yumi!

I can feeI it.

What?

I'm feeIing it.

I'm awake.

I'm awake everyday.

Yumi!

What is it, Yuichi?

- Good morning! - Good morning!

16th ApriI The third day

This is a modern-day miracIe.

We have a Iive report from Musashihara HospitaI.

The reporter is Mr Kanazawa.

You'II be Iate!

How is it up there?

I'm Kanazawa, at the hospitaI.

This hospitaI...

..that's where you stayed for your asthma.

Reminds me of those days.

The peopIe are coming in and out...

WeII, I've got to go. See you.

I see... it Iooks Iike

the doctors are coming out.

Can you interview them?

Live from the hospitaI.

She was born from the mother who died in the pIane crash.

She hasn't been awake for 1 7 years.

But Yumi suddenIy woke up at midnight the day before yesterday.

The reason for this is unknown.

We wiII hear from the Director, Dr Hikawa,

and Yumi Iida herseIf.

How does it feeI to wake up after 1 7 years?

I don't have any memory of sIeeping.

So I feeI Iike a newborn.

Have you been dreaming?

How did you Iearn the Ianguage so weII?

I read a Iot.

And I taIked with nurses and doctors.

But you were just Iike a baby, onIy two days ago.

She's awake...

..that girI...

Do you feeI any different from other peopIe?

What's your pIan after Ieaving the hospitaI?

What do you want to do when you are out of the hospitaI?

Nothing...

Mr Iida! You're over-boiIing the noodIes!

Do you know your father's missing?

Don't you know about the pIane crash?

- Your mother was... - Yumi!

Wait!

What is it?

A student?

- Yuichi? - Don't worry about them.

Yuichi, do you think I'm strange?

No, you aren't.

But there are things I can't understand.

Yumi, you haven't seen your father.

But you can draw him.

Father...

It's stiII too coId.

CoId.

CoIdness.

It gets even coIder in winter.

Yuichi...

Why are we born and why do we die?

Happiness is not aII about Iiving a Iong time, is it?

Of course not.

There are short but satisfying Iives.

I've onIy got two days.

In two days...

I'II faII again.

FaII?

What about two days?

For two more days,

I can stay awake.

I'm aIIowed to be awake for five days.

What?

What are you taIking about? Five days?

Who is it?

Who decided such a thing?

I can't remember...

..who it was.

WhiIe I was sIeeping, I heard a whisper.

That's not true.

But I beIieve those words.

So I have to teII you what I feeI now.

How you feeI?

My heart... hurts.

I... what's this feeIing...

That is...

the feeIing that you Iove someone.

Love.

I Iove.

But I'm scared.

I...

when I think of Dr Hikawa, I...

You are not a prince.

HeIIo?

What?

- Sorry to caII so suddenIy. - What is it?

I saw it on TV.

When you appeared.

You Iooked so cooI.

I suffered from asthma when I was a kid.

I was hospitaIised for about a month.

In that hospitaI.

Yumi... she was sIeeping then.

I was just a kid,

so I beIieved it.

- That if the prince kissed... - WeII...

WeII...

About the other day...

..I don't think of it as a kiss.

What?

When I was stiII in junior schooI,

there was a guy I Iiked.

He kissed me

on his graduation day.

That was my first kiss.

So, what happened with you...

I just wanted to teII you, it was nothing.

What matters is...

..onIy one person.

So...

you have to take good care of her.

Otherwise...

Otherwise, I wouId feeI

Iike I was being made a fooI of.

Oh, it's you.

Anything wrong?

Dr Hikawa...

What is it?

Yumi Ioves you.

She's serious.

She says she can be awake onIy for five days.

Someone toId her that whiIe she was sIeeping.

I don't beIieve it,

but...

pIease.

Get married to Yumi.

Make her happy.

Do you beIieve it?

What?

That she onIy has five days,

such nonsense.

She aIso toId me that she has five days.

But that is

a kind of autosuggestion.

Something stimuIated her during her sIeep,

and it took form as the words 'five days'.

Your attitude is confusing her.

Don't you Iove Yumi?

Love?

I'm teIIing you that 'Iove' or 'five days', don't mean anything.

- Don't you care about her feeIings? - Stop it.

Yumi.

It's dangerous to Ieave her aIone now.

Yumi!

Yumi!

Yumi!

Yumi!

Yumi!

No!

Why?

Why do you do that?

I'm faIIing...

I'm faIIing again....

1 7th ApriI The fourth day

You came aII this way,

but Yumi's in such a state...

It was my fauIt.

The story you toId me...

..it makes sense to me.

Yumi's fear of faIIing down,

and the drawing of her father.

What do you mean?

I mean...

When I was Iooking after Yumi...

..I taIked to her everyday.

Of course, it was because I wanted her to wake up.

EspeciaIIy after her father...

He Iost his business, after spending too much time on Yumi.

Then he stopped visiting her.

Yumi!

Your father wiII come for you, someday.

Yumi Iistened to your words

whiIe she was asIeep.

She saw her father's face,

even with her eyes cIosed.

WeII...

I know why Yumi...

..thinks she Ioves Dr Hikawa.

What?

WeII...

Yuichi...

I know you visited her, even after you Ieft the hospitaI.

And you... with Yumi...

That was fine.

I thought it was IoveIy.

ReaIIy...

It was the genuine feeIings of a chiId.

But..

Even after you stopped coming...

..it continued.

What?

I don't think he was serious...

..but Dr Hikawa...

at nights...

Dr Hikawa?

To Yumi?

I saw it...

That was why I Ieft...

Yuichi!

..conscious disturbance during sIeep. And what about...

You...

I see... I'd Iike to read the thesis.

You weren't making fun of her, were you?

WiII speak to you Iater.

You weren't, were you?

How can you ignore her feeIings?

She's my patient. I know her best.

You don't fooI me.

What can you understand about her?

She tried to kiII herseIf because of you.

She was abandoned by her parents.

And...

abandoned by God.

I was the onIy one with her.

But aII my efforts were in vain.

I didn't want to admit I was useIess.

That's why...

So...

Yumi?

SIeeping Beauty woke up when the prince kissed her.

I aIways beIieved

that Dr Hikawa Ioved me.

Because...

For a Iong time...

..I'd heard the voice of prayer, teIIing me to wake up.

AIong with that prayer...

..there was...

..something that made me feeI very warm.

Wake up.

Yuichi!

I'm home.

Yuichi!

Mum, I'm getting married tomorrow.

What?

1 8 ApriI The fifth day

When he was hospitaIised for his asthma...

..I knew he was visiting your room.

But I didn't want to...

stop him.

I was a mother who Iet him do things on his own.

But pIease...

..be with him forever.

Yumi.

The bride enters.

PIease weIcome her, everyone.

Father...

Yumi...

WiII you now speak your marriage vows together?

We take one another, as husband and wife,

to hoId from this day forth, in sickness and in heaIth,

to Iove and to cherish, and to be faithfuI forever.

The vows that you have spoken

in front of everyone here,

God wiII make stronger.

God wiII fiII you with bIessings.

What God has joined together, Iet no man put asunder.

PIease exchange your rings.

CongratuIations, shouId I say?

Five days, Yumi said.

Do you stiII beIieve it?

I don't know.

I don't know what to think.

I toId you, it was autosuggestion.

But for Yumi,

it has become the reaIity.

It's a strange situation.

Today is the fifth day.

But what shouId I...

A prayer, maybe?

It's not a IogicaI thing to say.

What eIse can you do?

Go back to the bride.

The worId is..

very big.

You remember everything.

I'II be with Yuichi, forever.

It'II be fine.

I remember everything about you, even in my sIeep.

This is your hand.

This is Yuichi.

I'II remember...

..your mother's voice...

..your friends.

The song we heard in town.

Dancing in the rain.

I'II remember everything.

Yumi!

Do you beIieve in God?

If He's the one that aIIows you onIy five days,

I don't beIieve in Him.

I wiII teII God...

I wiII teII Him something.

That the worId is...

..very big...

Yuichi...

I'II thank God for you as weII.

Because I couId meet...

Yuichi.

Yumi!

Yumi! Don't sIeep!

Won't you be with me forever?

Yumi!

I... am... happy...

Yumi...

Yumi...

Yumi!

7th August, 1999

I'm home.

Wasn't it heavy rain?

I didn't bring an umbreIIa, so I was in troubIe.

Yumi...

Shibata came today.

Remember him?

Five years ago...

Oh, it's been six years, aIready...

He used to be in my research team.

He's married.

Oh, yes...

He's got a kid.

He brought me the photos.

Look.

Isn't it cute?

Yumi?

Don't you Ieave me...

It's not fair.

I sent Yumi...

to have an autopsy.

When we opened her skuII,

we found her brain was beautifuI and transparent,

shining and cIear, as gIass.

Maybe her Iife was onIy five days Iong,

but I beIieve she was happier than anyone eIse.

Yuichi!

The worId is very big, Yumi.

Yuki Kohara

Risa Goto

Directed by Hideo Nakata