SYNOPSIS

Young female writer Sakura Asuka (Yuki Uchida) works for a comedy-channel. Her life looks to be life. However, one day she wakes up and finds herself in a mental hospital. She is tied to her bed and can't remember what exactly happened. Head-nurse Eguchi (Ryo) informs her, that she tried to kill herself with an overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol. For three days she had been unconscious. Sakura tries to convince the nurse and her doctor that the whole thing is simply a misunderstanding and that she never would have tried to take her own life purposely. Furthermore, she has an important deadline to meet, which is why she wants to be released from hospital as soon as possible. But this proves to be everything but easy, even the more as her boyfriend Tetsuo (Kudo Kankuro) would have to give his ok first.
While Sakura slowly starts to make new friends at the mental hospital and is introduced to life at that facility by eating-disorder patient Miki (Yu Aoi), she slowly starts to remember what happened before her hospitalization. It seems as if Sakura's life wasn't actually that bright. Maybe she did have a good reason to kill herself...

TECHNICAL DATA

Director:Suzuki Matsuo
Screenplay: Suzuki Matsuo
Production: Masao Teshima, Naoki Kitagawa, Shinji Ogawa
Cast: Yuki Uchida, Kankurô Kudô, Yû Aoi, Ryô, Yukô Nakamura
Film Editing: Soichi Ueno
Cinematography: Akihiro Okabayashi
Soundtrack: Hajime Moji
Runtime: 118 min. Language: Japanese. Subtitles: Spanish.

DIRECTOR

BIOGRAPHY

Matsuo Suzuki began his film career as an actor under the command of such influential directors as Hideaki Anno, although his name with his role in the controversial film by Takashi Miike, Ichi the Killer (2001). She would blockbusters like Ping Pong (2002) and Be with You (2004). Thug nature though he has also become a regular series with products like B Robo-Geisha (2009).
His debut behind the camera was realized with the great generational romantic comedy Otakus in Love (2004). He has participated in two collective films, Female (2005) and Ten Nights of Dream (2006) and his latest work to date as a director is Welcome to the Quiet Room (2007).

FILMOGRAPHY

- Ai no shinsekai (1994)- Actor
- Ritual (2000)- Actor
- Ichi, the Killer (2001)- Actor
- Ping Pong (2002)- Actor
- Otakus in Love (2004)- Director and actor
- Female (2005)- Director
- Welcome to the Quiet Room (2007)- Director
- Robo ? Geisha (2009)- Director