The Mourning Forest
Mogari no Mori
Directed by
Japan, France
2007
97 min
- Japanese
Drama
In a village among mountains, western Nara prefecture in Japan. Shigeki lives peacefully at a retirement home with fond memories of his late wife. Machiko, newly-appointed caretaker to the home, also lost her child in an accident and lives her life with the sense of loss and sadness. Shigeki and Machiko, getting over the two opposite positions, care-receiver and care-taker, gradually come to understand each other as two persons in the same situation that live in mourning their beloved ones' death. One day, they go visit the grave of Shigeki's wife in a forest. In the forest, filled with the primordial energy, they encounter...
Festivals
Credits
- Cast
- Uda Shigeki
- Ono Machiko
- Watanabe Makiko
- Saito Yoichiro
- Masuda Kanako
- Screenplay
- Naomi Kawase
- Cinematography
- Nakano Hideyo
- Editing
- Oshige Yuji
- Music
- Shigeno Masamichi
- Sales
- CELLULOID DREAMS
- Production
- KUMIE INC.
Press
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...a film of great emotional impact, with a vision of the interdependence of man and nature.
Naomi Kawase
Japan
With her first feature, SUZAKU(1997), KAWASE Naomi became the youngest winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Since then, KAWASE has had three other films in competition at Cannes, including SHARA (2003), MOGARI- THE MOURNING FOREST(2007), and HANEZU(2011), which won the Grand Prix Award in 2007. In 2009, she became the first woman and Asian filmmaker to receive the Carrosse d’Or, for directors who have made significant contributions to the Cannes Film Festival. KAWASE’s films have also screened at many other international film festivals, including Locarno and San Sebastian. Her 2017 film RADIANCE was selected in competition at the 70th Cannes Film Festival.
