Forest Stories

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What about Aoyama's "Forest with no Name"? Often credited as: "Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name"
There is a subbed R1 DVD available.

best, 

Stefan


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Datum: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 08:38:29 +0900
Von: "Eija Niskanen" <eija.niskanen at gmail.com>
An: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Betreff: Re: Forest Stories

> And don't forget Kurosawa Akira's Rashomon and its beautiful
> camerawork of the forest!
> 
> Aoyama Shinji's Shady Grove is about human relations, but the image of
> a grove plays into the plot.
> 
> Then there is Kore-eda Hirokazu's film Distance about a religious cult
> resembling the Aum Shinrikyou. A lot of the film happens in a forest
> and by a lake.
> 
> If you want to include animation, Miyazaki Hayao's Mononokehime is an
> interesting depiction of the ancient Japan, and mythical forest gods.
> Shintoism and its connections to forest and trees are an important
> part of many Miyazaki films.
> 
> Eija
> 
> On 6/1/07, Mark Anderson <ander025 at umn.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Izumi Kyoka's The Holy Man of Mount Koya is terrific.
> >  Sakaguchi Ango's Under the Cherries Trees in Full Bloom is also quite a
> > story.
> >
> >
> >                                                       Mark Anderson
> >
> >
> >  Rob Smith wrote:
> > I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for
> stories
> > that take place in the forest. Preferably not samurai stories. I'm not
> > looking for anything too specific, but something closer to Tom Sawyer
> than
> > Lord of the Flies. Ghost stories are fine. Kids lost in the woods,
> > adventure, obstacles and tasks...stuff like that.  (It doesn't
> specifically
> > have to be a Japenese story, but this is a Japanese film list.)
> >
> >  I'm looking for both films and written stories, so whatever you've got
> (as
> > long as there is an English translation) is cool.
> >
> >  --
> >  -rob
> >  http://www.robixsmash.com/

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