樹の海
Near the slopes of Mount Fuji, there is a so-called suicide forest, an infamous place where people who are tired of living have their last breath of air. The four different stories of this film all revolve around this place.
Near the slopes of Mount Fuji, there is a so-called suicide forest, an infamous place where people who are tired of living have their last breath of air. The four different stories of this film all revolve around this place.
มาซาโอะ ฮางิวาระ
Masahiko Asakura
井川遥
Eiko Tejima
池内博之
Tatsuya
塩見三省
Kiyoshi Saegusa
津田寛治
Toshio Yamada
小山田サユリ
Yokoyama Masako
Near the slopes of Mount Fuji, there is a so-called suicide forest, an infamous place where people who are tired of living have their last breath of air. The four different stories of this film all revolve around this place.
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls away. Now they must make their way through the thick of nature and thick gunfire to accomplish their mission. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout the entire film. Instead, the music, sounds, images and deeply truthful acting turn a simple plot into an intense experience. Passion and intrigue keep building to the very end.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. The young man, Jimmy, who has suspicions, but little comes out until a Yankee woman comes to town.
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.
On the third anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise.
ภายหลังพ้นโทษจากเรือนจำ ซึสึโกะ สัมผัสได้ว่าผู้คนรอบข้างต่างมองเธอแบบไม่ไว้ใจ เธอรู้สึกผิดหวังและตัดสินใจออกเดินทางด้วยความรู้สึกเจ็บปวด พร้อมกับตั้งกฎให้กับตัวเองว่า จะออกเดินทางไปยังเมืองอื่น ๆ ทันทีที่เก็บเงินได้ครบหนึ่งล้านเยน การเดินทางของเธอในครั้งนี้เสมือนการค้นหาตัวตน พร้อม ๆ กับกอบกู้เศษซากชีวิตที่เคยทำหล่นหายไปในอดีต เพื่อเรียนรู้ที่จะไว้ใจคนอื่นอีกครั้ง
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.