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Sleeping Forest is a film of genre Crime directed by Nobuhiro Doi with Hiroshi Abe
Sleeping Forest (2014)
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Add to a movie listNemuri no Mori (眠りの森 ～新参者スペシャル, Nemuri no Mori - Shinzanmono Special) is a 2014 Japanese feature-special directed by Nobuhiro Doi. It is based on the novel "Nemuri no Mori" by Keigo Higashino.
^ "Nemuri no Mori". 眠りの森. Retrieved 2014-08-16.
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A man is found dead in an office of the Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect, who a dancer in the company, is found lying down unconscious in the same room. According to the suspect, the man was a robber who had tried to attacked her. She insists that in self defence, she hit him on the head and killed him. After a series of investigations, suspicions surrounding her clam begins to surface. Later on, the director of the Takayanagi Ballet Company is poisoned to death. Are the cases related?Actors
Hiroshi Abe
(Kaga Kyoichiro)
Akira Emoto
(Daisuke Ota)
Satomi Ishihara
(Mio Asaoka)
Haruka Kinami
(Haruko Saito)
Reina Triendl
(waitress)
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