Sleeping Bride (2000)

Japanese director Hideo Nakata is best known for his Ringu horror movies, but SB is almost the polar opposite of Ringu. It's based on a manga by Osamu Tezuka and is perhaps best described as a modern fairytale about a sleeping girl and the male high school student who's besotted with her.
It's a sweet film that very occasionally resembles a live-action Ghibli, but unfortunately those moments are mere ballast. If they'd been used more effectively the story would've had more of an impact. As it is now, it's reliant primarily on Kenji Kawai's score to provide any kind of emotional punch beyond Nakata's simplistic sentimentality.

2½ better days out of 5