Ritual

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

Ritual is a 2000 drama movie directed by Hideaki Anno, starring Jun Murakami, Shinobu Ôtake, Shunji Iwai. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.5/10 from 3,351 votes and runs 2h 8m.