Japan Synopsis
殯の森
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.
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The 2006–2008 Japan Window
The Mourning Forest holds position #203 of 372 Japan films in the 2006–2008 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Japan, 1020 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Mourning Forest premiered alongside 112 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 112 other Japan films in 2007.
The 1956th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
39 audience reviews — more than 58% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (58th percentile) outruns trending popularity (41th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Mourning Forest, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- sadness · 5
- attachment to nature · 3
- nursing home · 1
- forest · 23
- woman director · 246
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,564 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (44th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Japan Drama productions specifically: #1,129 of 1,933 (top 58%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | France, Japan |
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Celluloid Dreams, Visual Arts College, Kumie |
| Runtime | 1h 38m |
| Release Date | May 29, 2007 |
| IMDb | tt1016205 |