The Mourning Forest

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.

Cast

Machiko Ono

as Machiko

Shigeki Uda

as Shigeki

Makiko Watanabe

as Wakako

Yoichiro Saito

as Machiko's Husband

Kanako Masuda

as Mako

Yūsei Yamamoto

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