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Little Forest: Winter/Spring

2015 · 120 min

A quiet, sensory immersion in seasonal cooking and rural rhythms, gently carrying an undercurrent of loneliness and longing.

Directed by
Junichi Mori
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ai Hashimoto, Takahiro Miura, Mayu Matsuoka
Tagline
Farm cook eat to live.
Overview
Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.

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Directed by
Junichi Mori
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ai Hashimoto, Takahiro Miura, Mayu Matsuoka
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 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
  • nature
  • isolation
  • family
  • healing
  • identity
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance2
Tension1
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Genres
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Directed by
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Starring
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Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
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Country
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Languages
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