The Mourning Forest
Mogari no mori
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Cannes Film Festival—Grand Prix Toronto International Film Festival |
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“An extraordinary work…”—Japan Times
Filmmaker Naomi Kawase won the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix for this gorgeous meditation on grief and healing. An elderly man (newcomer Shigeki Uda) remains in mourning for his wife, and his caregiver (Machiko Ono) is similarly devastated by the death of her son. A bond emerges between them, and it grows when circumstances strand the pair in the middle of a vast and silent forest.
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The Mourning Forest( (Japanese: 殯の森Mogari no mori) is an 2007 Japanese film directed by Naomi Kawase. It was awarded the Grand prix at the 2007 Cannes film festival. 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.
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