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The Mourning Forest

2007 · 98 min

A quiet, contemplative immersion in grief and nature, where long walks through dense forest mirror inner journeys toward acceptance.

Overview
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • memory
  • isolation
  • nature
  • healing
Places
  • countryside
  • wilderness
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Naomi Kawase
Written by
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Starring
Machiko Ono, Shigeki Uda, Makiko Watanabe, Yoichiro Saito, Kanako Masuda, Yūsei Yamamoto
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
98 min
Country
Japan, France
Languages
Japanese

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