Umoregi (Japan Version) DVD Region 2

What secrets lie deep in the buried forest? Veteran filmmaker Oguri Kohei, the director of such films as The Sting of Death and Sleeping Man, helms The Buried Forest (a.k.a. Umoregi), one of a select group of Japanese films entered in competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. With a cinematic look seemingly pulled straight from yesteryear, the film kicks off by focusing on a high school girl named Machi (Karen). To break up the monotony of summer, Machi decides that she and her friends should have some fun and start telling each other stories. Machi begins the game by telling a story about a camel coming to town and, soon after, the other two girls join in, each weaving their own intriguing tales.

In the meantime, the town rebel San-chan (Asano Tadanobu, from Last Life in the Universe and Ichi the Killer) spends his time cruising around town in his red sports car and hanging out with his biker punk pals. Even so, the wildest thing they've ever done is hold up the town's sole convenience store. Then there's the package from Brazil that holds an enormous egg that supposedly came from a beast that's been extinct for years. And what of the old woman (Sakamoto Sumiko) who's being sent to a nursing home while hoping for a cure for her ailments? Even stranger, thanks to a torrential rainfall, the villagers discover an underground cavern containing fossilized trees buried in a volcanic eruption. How will all these seemingly unrelated narrative strands be tied together? Find out in The Buried Forest, Oguri Kohei's beautiful, masterfully crafted motion picture!

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Product Title:	Umoregi (Japan Version) Umoregi (日本版) Umoregi (日本版) 埋もれ木 Umoregi (Japan Version)
Artist Name(s):	Asano Tadanobu | Tanaka Yuko | Xia Lian | Kishibe Ittoku | Sakamoto Sumiko | Okubo Taka | Hidari Tokie | Nishina Takashi | Hirata Mitsuru 淺野忠信 | 田中裕子 | 夏蓮 | 岸部一德 | Sakamoto Sumiko | 大久保鷹 | Hidari Tokie | 仁科貴 | 平田滿 浅野忠信 | 田中裕子 | 夏莲 | 岸部一德 | Sakamoto Sumiko | 大久保鹰 | Hidari Tokie | Nishina Takashi | 平田满 浅野忠信 | 田中裕子 | Xia Lian | 岸部一徳 | 坂本スミ子 | 大久保鷹 | 坂田明 | 左時枝 | 仁科貴 | 平田満 Asano Tadanobu | Tanaka Yuko | Xia Lian | Kishibe Ittoku | Sakamoto Sumiko | Okubo Taka | Hidari Tokie | Nishina Takashi | Hirata Mitsuru
Director:	Oguri Kohei 小栗康平 Oguri Kohei 小栗康平 Oguri Kohei
Release Date:	2006-07-29
Publisher Product Code:	DC-2
Language:	Japanese
Place of Origin:	Japan
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	2 - Japan, Europe, South Africa, Greenland and the Middle East (including Egypt) What is it?
Duration:	93 (mins)
Publisher:	Shochiku Home Video
Other Information:	DVD
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004450099

[アーティスト/ キャスト]
小栗康平 (監督、製作、脚本) / 夏蓮 / 浅野忠信 / 坂田明

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製作国 : 日本 (Japan)
公開年 : 2005

[ストーリー]
映画の舞台は山に近い小さな町。^.^女子高校生のまちは、女友達と短い物語をつくり、^.^それをリレーして遊ぶことを思いつく。^.^次々と、紡がれる物語は、未来へと向かう夢−。^.^町に住む大人たちにも物語はある。^.^でもそれらはみな、現実の歩みがつくった自分史。過去−。^.^ふたつの物語は、山、森、雨、くじら、らくだ、馬、さまざまな^.^アイテムと出会い、ファンタジーへと姿を変える。^.^夢、過去、現実、未来が溶け合って、人々は、埋もれ木のカーニバルへと行きつく。