Forest Stories

[Aaron Gerow]

There is of course Kawase Naomi's new film, Mogari no mori (The 
Mourning Forest).

Takimoto Tomoyuki's Ki no umi (http://www.bitters.co.jp/kinoumi/) is an 
interesting film about the Jukai, the deep forest at the foot of Mt. 
Fuji which is a famous place for committing suicide and dumping bodies. 
The Jukai also appeared in Watanabe Kensaku's Loved Gun, again as a 
place for bodies/death.

Forests sometimes appear in ghost movies, such as Miike Takashi's Yokai 
daisenso (a kid entering the forest and encountering yokai).

In Okinawa, Kijimina is a tree spirit, and he appears in Nakae Yuji's 
Hotel Hibiscus and Takamine Go's Paradise View.

Aaron Gerow
KineJapan owner

Assistant Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University

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