Suicide Forest Village

2021 [JAPANESE]

Drama / Horror / Mystery

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50%
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 1013 1K

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Plot summary

One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.

Director

Takashi Shimizu Photo
Takashi Shimizu

Top cast

Hideko Hara Photo
Hideko Hara as Yumiko Amasawa
Rio Yamashita Photo
Rio Yamashita
Kazuya Takahashi Photo
Kazuya Takahashi
Anna Yamada Photo
Anna Yamada as Hibiki Amasawa
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.05 GB
1280*690
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 56 min
Seeds 1
2.15 GB
1920*1036
Japanese 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 56 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by continuumx 5 / 10

Long on creepy visuals, short on plot

This movie has a heavy emphasis on creepy visuals and there are plenty of them here. It doesn't place much emphasis on tell a coherent story or explaining why any of this is happening.The movie starts with a video from a vlogger going into Aokigahara. She goes off-trail despite the many warnings signs in the actual forest telling you not to do that for good, if mundane, reasons. Something happens to her, It's not clear what. The main characters find an evil creepy box that's cursed with the curse of the forest. What is that? That's a good question. The characters start dying off in various odd ways. They have to figure out the curse. Good luck with that. I have seen the whole movie and I don't know. Jun Kunimura pops up now and then to say vaguely ominous things about the forest but he's barely in the movie.This movie sort of explains a lot of things but doesn't actually explain them. Later, we find out what happened to the vlogger but not really. We find out what the box is about but it doesn't really explain anything. This movie isn't big on explaining things.It's worth watching if you are just looking for some creepy visuals and J-horror stuff. Don't expect a coherent story or any explanation of why any of this is happening though.
Reviewed by Uriah43 5 / 10

The Second Film in the "Village of Terror" Trilogy

This film essentially begins with a YouTube blogger by the name of "Akina" (Rinka Otani) recording herself as she enters a thick forest known for the number of people who venture inside to commit suicide. While she is recording, strange things begin to happen, and her screams are the last things anyone hears. The scene then shifts to a teenage girl named "Hibiki Amasawa" (Anna Yamada) watching the video at home and becoming quite disturbed by it. Not long afterward, while helping some friends move into a new apartment, a strange box is found under the house which terrifies Hibiki--and immediately afterward the people around her begin to die in horrific ways. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that I was extremely impressed with this movie--for the first hour or so. Unfortunately, the plot began to drag to such a degree that I almost felt like entering this deadly forest myself. It was almost as if the director (Takashi Shimizu) decided to abandon any pretense of a plot and simply fill in the remaining minutes with special effects instead. That being said, while I don't consider this film to be that bad necessarily, I do consider it to be a missed opportunity, and I have rated it accordingly. Average.
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