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Jun 23, 2007 · With Shigeki Uda, Machiko Ono, Kanako Masuda, Yôichirô Saitô. A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.
Jun 23, 2007 · Japanese: 殯の森. Director: Naomi Kawase. Writer: Naomi Kawase. Producer: Naomi Kawase. Cinematographer: Hideyo Nakano. Release Date: June 23, 2007. Runtime: 97 Min. Studio: Distributor NHK. Language: Japanese. Country: Japan. Plot. Shigeki lives in a small retirement home.
A caretaker and a patient bond after becoming lost.
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The Mourning Forest is a quiet and contemplative rumination on life and loss where the rural locale is significant to the story, much like Naomi Kawase's debut feature Suzaku. It is a calmly crushing film that captures the grieving process in a way that resonated with me.
When the car goes off the road, Machiko goes for help, but Shigaki wanders off into the beautiful, at times treacherous forest, seemingly in search of his wife’s burial site. Machiko follows, but the pair become lost and must spend the next two days battling with Nature and their personal distress.
Mourning Forest is a sensitive film tracing a senile old man's quixotic pilgrimage to his wife's grave in a forest interlocking a mystical relationship with nature. An old man with depleting memory is cared for by a young woman Machiko, a new nursing recruit, at the retirement/old age home.
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