JAPANESE FILM SHOWS
Saturday, 6th January 2007 Starting 16:30
My Secret Cache / ひみつの花園
Directed by YAGUCHI Shinobu (矢口史靖), 1997, 83min, Colour
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YAGUCHI Shinobu
YAGUCHI Shinobu
SUZUKI Takuji
TAKAI Hideyuki
YANAI Hiroshi
HORIGUCHI Shin
AMANO Mayumi
KANAZAWA Kiyomi
KISHIMOTO Masahiro
YAGURA Kuniaki
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Cast
Suzuki Sakiko:
NISHIDA Naomi
西田 尚美
Edogawa:
RIJU Go
利重 剛
Suzuki Tomiko, Sakiko’s mother:
KADOKAE Kazue
角替 和枝
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SYNOPSIS:
SUZUKI Sakiko loves money. Her idea of a schoolgirl thrill was looking at a full bankbook. When a boy would offer to buy her a meal, she would ask him to give her the money he would have spent as cash instead. After graduation, she works as a bank clerk, just to be near money, but she is still not satisfied because the money is not her own. One day, she is abducted by bank robbers who take her to Aokigahara forest near Mt. Fuji, where it is famous for its confusing layout and magnetic soil that confuses compasses. There, the robbers crash and burn. Only Sakiko survives, going over waterfalls and into an underground lake, kept afloat by a suitcase full of money.
She is treated as a hero in the hospital, but all she can think of is the money that she knows survived and which everyone else thinks burned up in the crash. She persuades her family to go look for it, but they are reluctant and turn back when it rains. Sakiko continues but is wounded by a falling tree stump and barely survives in this wilderness famous for suicides. Recuperating at home again, she sees a TV program on Aokigahara forest and decides to learn geological surveying skills from Professor Morita who appears in the program. She visits the professor, who turns out to be a rock-eating eccentric, and also meets his young assistant Edogawa. Sakiko withdraws money from her bank account, for the first time in her life, to takes a room where she studies for the University entrance exam.
