2009
special programs / The bizarre according to Shinji Aoyama
Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name
Aoyama Shinji
Japan, 2002, 71'
The movie
Hired by a rich businessman, private detective Mike Yokohama infiltrates a new-age sect in order to find his client’s daughter, who has disappeared. He finds her in a state of absolute passivity, among other residents of a boarding school located in the middle of a forest. The sweet but scary director of the institution seems to carry out a strange power on them…
cast :
Masashi Yamamoto, Harada Yoshio, Nene Otsuka, Kyoka Suzuki, Masatoshi Nagase
Crew :
- Scriptwriter : Shinji Aoyama, Kaizo Hayashi
- Editor : Yuji Oshige
- Music : Hidehiko Urayama, Yoko Kumagai