Ki no Umi
JYUKAI: The Sea of Trees Behind Mt.Fuji
(c) C.I.A. Inc. + Happinet Pictures + Memory-Tech Corporation
(c) C.I.A. Inc. + Happinet Pictures + Memory-Tech Corporation
- Release Date
- June, 25th, 2005
- Running Time
- 119 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- 35mm
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- HAGIWARA Masato ── ASAKURA
- IGAWA Haruka ── Eiko
- IKEUCHI Hiroyuki ── Tatsuya
[ Staff ]
- AOSHIMA Takeshi ── Screenplay
- TAKIMOTO Tomoyuki ── Screenplay
- SHIBANUSHI Takahide ── Cinematography
- YOSHIKAWA Chuei ── Music
[ Production Company ]
C.I.A., Happinet, Memory Tech
[ Story ]
Set in the infamous suicide spot, Aokigahara Forest, at the foot of Mount Fuji, the film tells four stories of people who discover the value of life on the verge of death.
In the first story, a Yakuza gang force Asakura (Hagiwara Masato) to embezzle 500 million yen of public money, then beat him up and leave him for dead in the forest. Asakura survives and stumbles across a man who is about to hang himself. The man pleads pitifully with Asakura not to stop him. Asakura runs off and gets lost in the woods, but goes around in circles and finds himself back at the same spot. He begins to converse with the man's dead body and understand his pain and suffering. Finally Asakura himself makes the choice to live. In the other stories, similar life and death struggles are played out by a mafia moneylender who enters the forest to chase one of his debtors; a lovesick woman; and a detective determined to discover the truth about the life and death of a girl who committed suicide.
[ Contact (International) ]
Bitters End, Inc.
2F, 3-26-10 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0002
Rep: SADAI Yuji
Attn: ITO Sayaka
E-mail: international@bitters.co.jp
http://www.bitters.co.jp
