Shinji Aoyama
Yokohama mike - A Forest with No Name (Shiritsu tantei Hama Maiku: Namae no nai mori)
Director
Shinji Aoyama
Composer
Dowser
Cast
Masatoshi Nagase, Kyôka Suzuki, Nene Ôtsuka
Edition 2002
71'
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2002
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Mystery, Drama
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Dialogue:
Japanese
Mike Yokohama is a deadpan private detective hired by the father of a young woman who has left town for a retreat house, where she is on "a journey to self-discovery". His assignment is to get her out in time for her wedding to a man from a rich and respectable family. The cynical and wisecracking Mike joins the retreat. Instead of a name, he is given a number. Contact with the outside world is forbidden. He finds the daughter, who, at first, refuses to leave. But when her closest friend attempts suicide, she becomes disillusioned. The enigmatic doctor who runs the retreat house shows Mike to a place in the forest where there is a tree that looks just like him. Seeing it, she says, will put Mike in touch with his true desires. After accomplishing his mission, Mike finds he cannot shake the urge to return to the retreat house.
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Credits
Directors
Shinji Aoyama
Composers
Dowser
Cast
Masatoshi Nagase, Kyôka Suzuki, Nene Ôtsuka
Scenario
Shinji Aoyama, Kaizô Hayashi
Director of Photography
Tamra Masaki
Editors
Yûji Ohshige
Producers
Fujikado Hiroyuki, Horiguchi Yoshinori, Masuda Yasuhisa, Sento Takenori, Koga Shunsuke, Okano Akira, Hayashi Ayumi
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Dialogue
Japanese
Countries of production
Japan
Year
2002