The Forest of Love (2019) on Netflix
TV-MA20192h 31mCrimeDramaHorror
Joe Murata, a con man, telephones Mitsuko, a shut-in with strict parents, saying she once lent him fifty yen. Three young men planning a film about his swindles record their meeting.
- Netflix4.1/5
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- Rotten Tomatoes100%
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Plot summary
Joe Murata carries a girls' school yearbook with photographs crossed out and tells a waiter that he writes screenplays. Jay and Fukami live in a vacant warehouse and let Shin stay; Jay wants to explore criminal behavior legally through movies. Jay brings Shin to Taeko, who refuses him and introduces Mitsuko, a shut-in whose strict parents are well-off. Mitsuko, also a virgin, is not interested. Murata then calls Mitsuko, saying she lent him fifty yen years earlier; they meet at a park, where he arrives in a sports car and shows he is drawn to her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Forest of Love (2019)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Sion Sono's The Forest of Love was inspired by the murders, torture and extortion committed in Kyushu, Japan from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s by convicted serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga.
- On-screen text in the film states that those behind the real murders that inspired it were caught in 2002 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
