The Mourning Forest

The Mourning Forest

Directed by	Naomi Kawase
Written by	Naomi Kawase
Release dates	26 May 2007 (premiere at Cannes)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

The Mourning Forest (Japanese: 殯の森Mogari no mori) is an 2007 Japanese film directed by Naomi Kawase. It won the Grand prix at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] It tells the story of a nurse (played by Machiko Ono) who is grieving for her dead child. She works at a nursing home and grows close to an elderly man (Shigeki Uda), suffering from dementia, who is searching in the local forest for something connected to his dead wife that he cannot explain.

Cast

Yôichirô Saitô - Machiko's husband
Kanako Masuda - Mako
Machiko Ono - Machiko
Shigeki Uda - Shigeki
Makiko Watanabe - Wakako

References

↑ "The Mourning Forest". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 2009-12-20.

External links

The Mourning Forest at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Naomi Kawase

Suzaku (1997) Shara (2003) The Mourning Forest (2007) Nanayomachi (2008) Hanezu (2011) Still the Water (2014) Sweet Red Bean Paste (2015)

Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix

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