Welcome to the Occult Forest: The Movie

Welcome to the Occult Forest: The Movie

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2022•2h 3m•6.7/10

Horror

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.7/10(3)

A washed up horror film director named Kôji Kuroishi and his assistant director named Miho Ichikawa visit a house deep in wooded mountains to film a movie. Once arrived, they meet a mentally deranged woman named Maria Miyoshi who proclaims she's a fan of Kuroishi's works. The woman pleads that she's experienced the same things as documented in Kuroishi's works. Unexplainable phenomena quickly begin to happen, so Kuroishi sets out to document these experiences and turn them into a film, together with the help of a 'super volunteer' named Shôhei Uno and a handsome psychic medium named Nanashi.

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WOWOW

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JA

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Cast

Mayu Hotta

Mayu Hotta

Miho Ichikawa

Miwako Kakei

Miwako Kakei

Maria Miyoshi

Hiroki Iijima

Hiroki Iijima

Nanashi

Nobue Iketani

Nobue Iketani

Natsuko Oura

Hideo Nakano

Hideo Nakano

Hiroshima Soten

Koji Shiraishi

Koji Shiraishi

Kôji Kuroishi

Shohei Uno

Shohei Uno

Shôhei Uno

Marika Yamakawa

Marika Yamakawa

Kako Kobayashi

Miyu Sasaki

Miyu Sasaki

Junpei Hashino

Nanashi

Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Rie Kuwana

Rie Kuwana

Shigeo Ôsako

Shigeo Ôsako

Cultist

Masayuki Ino

Masayuki Ino

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