The Woodsman and the Rain

2011 [JAPANESE]

Action / Comedy / Drama

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 76%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76%
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 1044 1K

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Plot summary

A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.

Director

Shûichi Okita Photo
Shûichi Okita

Top cast

Shun Oguri Photo
Shun Oguri as Koichi
Kengo Kôra Photo
Kengo Kôra
Yoshiyuki Morishita Photo
Yoshiyuki Morishita as Zombie Actor
Tsutomu Yamazaki Photo
Tsutomu Yamazaki as Veteran Actor
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.15 GB
1280*694
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds ...
2.37 GB
1912*1036
Japanese 5.1
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gedanielson 8 / 10

A small Japanese town becomes involved with the film makers who've come to make a zombie movie.

Reviewed by mister_bateman 8 / 10

A feel-good movie

A very charming and funny film, but I wouldn't call it a comedy like it says underneath the title. The humor isn't the center piece, its much more than that. I would say the movie is about two totally different people (a ruralite woodsman and a young urbanite film director with his entourage) meeting and through working together helping each other overcome a problem in their respective lives. Just like with many similar contemporary Japanese movies I've enjoyed, there is a certain humanity and warmth and sense of community in this film, which you rarely see in Western cinema these days.In fact this movie reminded me a bit of another Japanese film, "Wood Job!"Both of those are very recommended!
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