The Mourning Forest

Accompanying the VR experience Missing Pictures, in which Naomi Kawase talks about her romantic comedy Oh Debu, which was never made, Eye will screen her most famous film: The Mourning Forest. The latter’s leads are both scarred by the loss of a loved one: elderly and confused, Shigeki is a widower and his young social worker Machiko’s child died and she is divorced. During a trip, car trouble strands the two in a fairy tale, emerald green forest. For two days they wander the woods, a journey that helps both of them gain some closure.