Winner
Cannes Film Festival
Grand Prix (2007)
AsianWomenDirectorsPublic Beta
The Mourning Forest
殯の森 (Mogari no Mori)
Directed by Naomi Kawase (河瀨直美)
2007•97 min
- Genre
- Drama
- Topic
- Memory & History
- Mood
- Lingering
- Language
- Japanese
Synopsis
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.
Trailer
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Footnote
- First
The only Japanese film to win an award at Cannes that year — Kawase's second major Cannes prize after her 1997 Camera d'Or, ten years apart
Main Cast
Machiko OnoMachikoSUShigeki UdaShigeki
Makiko WatanabeWakako
Yoichiro SaitoMachiko's HusbandKMKanako MasudaMako
YYYūsei Yamamoto
Director
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