The Sea of Trees

The Sea of Trees

Love will bring you home.

2016110 min6.2 / 10

A meditative, melancholic exploration of grief, redemption, and human connection set against Japan's most haunted landscape, where two broken people find meaning in each other.

In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.

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