Welcome to the Occult Forest: The Movie

Aug 27, 2022

2h 3m

★ 6.7

The Original POV

Overview

A washed up horror film director named Kôji Kuroishi and his assistant director named Miho Ichikawa visit a house deep in wooded mountains to film a movie. Once arrived, they meet a mentally deranged woman named Maria Miyoshi who proclaims she's a fan of Kuroishi's works. The woman pleads that she's experienced the same things as documented in Kuroishi's works. Unexplainable phenomena quickly begin to happen, so Kuroishi sets out to document these experiences and turn them into a film, together with the help of a 'super volunteer' named Shôhei Uno and a handsome psychic medium named Nanashi.

Genres

Horror

Production Companies

WOWOW

Welcome to the Occult Forest: The Movie Trailers

Cast

Miho Ichikawa

Mayu Hotta

Maria Miyoshi

Miwako Kakei

Nanashi

Hiroki Iijima

Natsuko Oura

Nobue Iketani

Hiroshima Soten

Hideo Nakano

Kôji Kuroishi

Koji Shiraishi

Shôhei Uno

Shohei Uno

Kako Kobayashi

Marika Yamakawa

Miyu Sasaki

Nanashi

Junpei Hashino

Morihiro Yamaguchi

Rie Kuwana

Three boys and two girls go backpacking from the city to a paradisiacal island. There they rent motorcycles, travel around the prettiest and most remote spots, camp out in the woods, on a coastal cliff, get drunk and swim in the sea. The following day they enter a deep, maze-like cave to explore it and get lost inside.

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