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A Sleeping Forest

1998 · 1 season

A slow-burning, unsettling mystery that draws you into buried memories and quiet dread.

Created by
Hisashi Nozawa, Reiko Kita
Genres
Drama
Starring
Takuya Kimura, Miho Nakayama, Toru Nakamura
Overview
Nemureru Mori is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from 8 October 1998 to 24 December 1998. It is written by Nozawa Hisashi, starring Miho Nakayama and Takuya Kimura, and features music by Mariya Takeuchi and U2.

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Created by
Hisashi Nozawa, Reiko Kita
Genres
Drama
Starring
Takuya Kimura, Miho Nakayama, Toru Nakamura
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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • mystery
  • trauma
  • obsession
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour1
Realism7
Romance4
Tension7
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama
Created by
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Written by
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Starring
Takuya Kimura, Miho Nakayama, Toru Nakamura, Shunsuke Kazama, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Masumi Okada, Yusuke Santamaria, Takanori Jinnai
Length
1 seasons, 12 episodes, 60 min each
Network
Fuji TV
Country
South Korea
Languages
Japanese

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