The Mourning Forest (殯の森, Mogari no mori) is a 2007 Japanese film directed by Naomi Kawase.

[1] It tells the story of a nurse (played by Machiko Ono) who is grieving for her dead child.

She works at a nursing home and grows close to an elderly man (Shigeki Uda), suffering from dementia, who is searching in the local forest for something connected to his dead wife that he cannot explain.

Elder Shigeki lives in a retirement home where he is lovingly cared for by Nurse Machiko, who is grieving the loss of a child.

The man, followed by Machiko, goes into the forest and, after two days of walking made difficult by the dense vegetation, they reach the place where Shigeki's wife is buried.