Plots(1)
"What is it with this forest?" That is the question for disgraced Tokyo detective Goro Yabuike (Kôji Yakusho), who finds himself embroiled in a tense struggle revolving around a gnarled, forbidding tree. Goro has fled Tokyo after a hostage crisis escalates into tragic violence. He finds himself in a remote forest where the surrounding vegetation is diseased, the streams are polluted, and other trees are dying or dead. Is the solitary tree rare, or a mutation? An eccentric caretaker fiercely protects the tree from a group of forest rangers who want to profit from it and a botanist who insists that the toxic tree must be destroyed. Can Goro redeem himself, and "restore the rules of the world?" (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Kōji Yakusho
Japan
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Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
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Ren Ōsugi
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Jun Fubuki
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Yôji Tanaka
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Yutaka Matsushige
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Masahiro Toda
Japan
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Atsushi Nishida
Japan
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