Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.
Direction
Hamaguchi turns a meeting into unbearable tension.
Cinematography
Snow-heavy forests that feel sentient, watching.
Writing
Dialogue so natural you forget it's scripted.
Director
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hamaguchi wrote this after a pandemic-era residency in a mountain village; the developers' tone-deaf presentation is verbatim from real town halls he witnessed.
The title is deeply ironic—evil isn't absent, it's structural, wearing Patagonia vests and speaking in PowerPoint.
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