DRAMA
The Phantom Wedding
DRAMA
1998
104 mins Episode(s): 1
English
English
This drama, set in the depths of rural Japan, is a pure love story. Iwabuchi is a former mafia man now working at a car rental shop, which offers services as casket coaches for funerals.
He accepts a job to carry Sawa, the dead fiancé of a man called Uchida, to a very country area in Shikoku. But on the way, Uchida disappears and Iwabuchi has to carry Sawa's dead body all alone. As soon as Iwabuchi arrives at the destination, he is asked to marry Sawa in a ‘ghost wedding’, as a custom for a dead person who was to marry before his or her death.
Although Iwabuchi is extremely hesitant, actual love blossoms between Iwabuchi and Sawa after the wedding ceremony.
He accepts a job to carry Sawa, the dead fiancé of a man called Uchida, to a very country area in Shikoku. But on the way, Uchida disappears and Iwabuchi has to carry Sawa's dead body all alone. As soon as Iwabuchi arrives at the destination, he is asked to marry Sawa in a ‘ghost wedding’, as a custom for a dead person who was to marry before his or her death.
Although Iwabuchi is extremely hesitant, actual love blossoms between Iwabuchi and Sawa after the wedding ceremony.
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