Screened at the 2012 Terracotta Far East Film Festival. “The Woodsman and the Rain” is a warm hearted comedy with an appealingly offbeat premise, following the relationship between a young director and a gruff lumberjack during the shooting of a zombie film in picturesque rural Japan. The film was directed by Shuichi Okita, last responsible for the popular cooking comedy “The Chef of South Polar”, and interestingly enough features a script by Fumiyo Moriya, who recently wrote the amazing Kappa sex pinku outing “Underwater Love”. Starring acclaimed veteran actor Koji Yakusho (“The Eel”, “13 Assassins”) and former television heartthrob Shun Oguri (“Boys over Flowers”) in the two lead roles, the film has been enjoying a successful run, winning the Special Jury Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival. The film begins with Koji Yakusho as Katsu, a 60 year-old lumberjack living in the peaceful mountain village of Yamamura, who is interrupted one day...
- 4/20/2012
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
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